Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Larson, John 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

JOHN LARSON, proprietor of the West Side dairy, on section 8, Joliet Township,
was born in Sweden, November 18, 1861, and was reared on a farm occupied by 
his father, Lars, meantime receiving a public school education. Believing that 
America offered greater opportunities for a young man than his own country, he 
decided to seek a home in the new world. Accordingly, in 1883, he crossed the 
ocean, landing in New York and thence coming to Joliet. For five years he was 
in the employ of a dairy farmer in New Lenox Township, and in this way gained 
a thorough knowledge of the dairy business, to which he has since given his
attention. His first independent venture was the purchase of a dairy business 
in Joliet. A year later he rented forty acres west of the city and embarked in 
the business on a larger scale. In 1892 he leased the Reed estate of two 
hundred and eighty acres, besides which he had adjoining pasture-land and a 
farm of his own in Troy Township, keeping upon the latter his young stock and  
the cows that were not used in his dairy work. Upon the expiration of his five
years' lease he renewed it for a similar period, and here he has since 
remained, gradually increasing the business and, in return, receiving greater 
returns.

Having a large tract of land, Mr. Larson not only conducts a dairy farm, but 
also gives some attention to general farming, and has two hundred acres under 
the plow. However, he makes no effort to sell his farm products, but keeps
them for winter feed for his stock. Four teams are used steadily on the farm, 
and from two to four men are employed in the cultivation of the place. In the 
raising of oats and corn he has been particularly successful, and has one 
hundred and ten acres in the latter. On his place are a number of horses,  
these being raised to sell; also Poland-China hogs and about one hundred head 
of cattle. The milk he sells at wholesale, supplying dealers in the city, and 
he therefore is not under the necessity of overseeing the detail work of 
delivery.

Fraternally Mr. Larson is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America, and  
the Turn Verein. Since becoming a citizen of the United States he has given 
allegiance to the Republican party. He was reared in the Lutheran faith, and 
has always been in hearty sympathy with the work of the church. He was united 
in marriage June 13, 1891, with Miss Beta Sandberg, of Chicago.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900


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