In the book's own words, not ours, with obvious scanning errors fixed. Families often supplied these stories to the publisher, so check key dates.
From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
OSCAR A. LARSON (1893) is one of the extensive and successful farmers of Delafield township. He rents 640 acres of land on sections 20, 19 and 30, all except forty acres of
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Mr. Larson is a native of Sweden and was born August 21, 1873. His father, Lars Erick Erickson, lives on a farm in the old country; his mother, Ingcborg Katharina (Nelson) Erickson, died in Sweden in December, 189.3. Oscar was brought up on a farm and was educated in the country schools of his native land, where he lived until he was nineteen years of age. He emigrated to America in the spring of 1803, and for a few months lived in Carleton county, Minnesota. In the fall of 1893 be came to Jackson county. The first two and one-half years of his residence in this county were spent working on the farm of his future father-in-law, John Esklund, in Delafield township. During the next few years he worked as a farm band in the vicinity of Wiiulom. He made a six months' visit to his old home in.Sweden in IHOS, and returning began working at the painting and pa)erbanging trade in Windom and was so engaged three years. In the spring of 1902 Mr. Larson rented John Esklund's farm and has since conducted it.
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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.
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