Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Larson, Louis 1860 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

LOUIS LARSON.

    Louis Larson is a prominent and enterprising farmer of Lake county, residing
on section 17, Ross township, where he has a well improved property that in its
beautiful appearance indicates his careful supervision. A native of Sweden, he
was born on the 20th of November, 1860, and was a son of John Larson, who was
also born in that country, whence he came to America, landing in New York in
1866, and then spent two years in Chicago. Two years afterward he came to Lake
county, Indiana, establishing his home in Hobart township in 1868. There he
remained for seven years and then removed to Ross township, but later he
returned to Hobart township, where his death occurred in 1898, when he was in
his sixty-sixth year. He was a life-long Republican, having firm faith in the
principles of the party and giving to it his stalwart support. Both he and his
wife are members of the Swedish Lutheran church at Hobart, and he was deeply
interested in all that pertained to the moral and educational advancement as
well as to the material upbuilding of his community. His wife, who bore the
maiden name of Ellen Olson, is also a native of Sweden. She still survives her
husband and now makes her home with her son Louis. She has been twice married,
and by the first union she had two daughters, while the children of the second
marriage are two sons.

    Louis Larson, the younger son, was but five years of age when his parents
left Sweden and came to the new world, while since seven years of age he has
made his home in Lake county, Indiana. Here he was reared and educated,
attending the Hobart schools and also the Ainsworth school in Ross township. To
his father he gave the benefit of his services through the period of his
minority, working in the fields throughout the summer months or from the time of
early spring planting until crops were harvested in the late autumn. He remained
at home to the time of his marriage, which occurred on the 3d of January, 1885,
the lady of his choice being Miss Hilda Strom, a native of Sweden, who came to
the United States when fourteen years of age. To Mr. and Mrs. Larson have been
born three children: William, Edwin and Herbert.

    After his marriage Mr. Larson rented his father's farm for about four years
and then purchased the place upon which he has since carried on general
agricultural pursuits and stock-raising. He now has eighty acres of good land
here, well improved with substantial buildings. There is a comfortable house and
large barn, and other modern improvements which indicate the owner to be a man
of progressive and practical spirit. His land is arable, and the well-tilled
fields yield to him a good return for his labor. In his political views he is a
stanch Republican, and his religious faith is indicated by his membership in the
Swedish Methodist Episcopal church at Hobart. Almost his entire life has been
passed in Lake county, and those who have known him from boyhood esteem him
highly because his life has been honorable and upright.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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