John Larson

As printed in 1910

JOHN S. LARSON (1872), Delafield township farmer, has spent his entire life in Jackson county, having been born in a dug-out in Weimer township March 6, 1872. He is next to the youngest in a family of five living children, named as follows: Lena, Annie, Louis, Ludwig and John S. His parents, Segar and Isabella (Johanstadter) Larson, were born in Norway, were married there January 8, 1800, came to America in 1869, resided two years in Boone county, Illinois, and located in Jackson county in the fall of 1871. A homestead was taken on section 10, Weimer township, and there the father of our subject still live* his mother died May 8, 1906, aged 72 years.

John Larson resided on the old homestead with his parents until he was of age, working for his father and attending school. After completing the common school course, he entered the Breck school of Wilder, being a student of that school two terms. When he reached his majority he started in life for himself, working as a farm laborer for a few years. In 1896 he bought his present farm, the south half of the southeast quarter of section 6, Delafield township, moved onto the place the next year, and that has since been his home. In addition to his own land he farms an eighty acre tract adjoining, the property of his brother, Louis. Mr. Larson is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church and of the M. W. A. lodge.

At St. James, Minnesota, on July 6, 1897, Mr. Larson was united in marriage to ITelcn Grinager, who was born in Norway November 14, 1875, and who came to the United States with her parents when twelve years of agk. Her father, Thomas Grinager, died in 1908; her mother, Andrena Grinager, lives in Delafield township. To Mr. and Mrs. Larson have been bom five children, of whom the following three are living: Myrtle, bom October 20, 1899; Tilden, bom Febmary 10, 1904; Alf, bom May 24, 1907. Two children, Inga and Palmer, died in infancy.

As printed in An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.