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Born 1873
From An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912)
LUDVIG E. LARSON (1876), who owns and farms the southeast quarter of section 18, Lucas township, has lived in Lyon county since he was three years of age. He is a prosperous farmer and has taken a leading part in the affairs of his community.
His parents, Haldor and Engel Marie (Anderson) Larson, were born in Norway in 1849, came to the United States when children, and were married in Wisconsin. They came to Lyon county in 1876 and homesteaded the farm now owned by their son. The mother died on the homestead in the spring of 1880 and the father two years later. There are two other children in the family, Theodore, of Broderick, Saskatchewan, Canada, and Bergene (Mrs. Julius Anderson), of Tacoma, Washington.
Ludvig was born in Jackson county, Wisconsin, July 28, 1873. He came to Lyon county with his parents in 1876 and until their deaths made his home with them. Thereafter until he was thirteen he lived with an uncle, John Anderson, and two years after that with another uncle, George Anderson. At the age of fifteen he began to make his own way in the world and has since been farming except for a time when he worked at the livery and dray business and in a hardware store in Cottonwood.
The homestead had remained in the family and in the spring of 1896 Ludvig and his brother began its cultivation. The partnership continued until 1911, when our subject purchased his brother's interests and became sole owner of the farm. All the improvements the farm has were made by the brothers.
Mr. Larson was one of the organizers of school district No. 89 and he has been clerk of the district since its organization. He served as assessor of his township two years and was a member of the township board four years, three years as its chairman. He is now serving his second term as township clerk. He and his family are members 'of the United Lutheran church.
Mr. Larson was married in Cottonwood November 28, 1895, to Amelia A. Roberts, who was born in Yellow Medicine county February 13, 1876. Her father is Louis Dibble, but she was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. John Roberts. Mr. Larson and his wife have eight children, named as follows: Harvard Eugene, born October 29, 1896; Alfred Leslie, born March 10, 1898; Amy Luella, born July 5, 1900; Haze! Eunice, born March 15, 1903; Edward Ludvig, born February 20, 1905; [name withheld], born March 6, 1907; [name withheld], born February 14, 1909; Elfreda Marie, born December IS, 1911.
As printed in An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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