Marshall-Wyandotte County KS Archives Biographies.....Larson, Hans P. 1857 - 1915
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

HANS P. LARSON.

    The late Hans P. Larson, a substantial farmer and landowner of Rock
township, this county, who died at his home in that township in the summer of
1915, was a native of the far-away kingdom of Sweden, but has been a resident of
this country ever since he was twenty-one years of age. He was born at Hallen,
in Sweden, December 3, 1857, son of Lars and Mary Hanson, natives of that same
country, who came to America in 1880, proceeding on out to Kansas and settling
in Marshall county, where two or three of their children had preceded them some
years before, and here they spent their last days.

    Upon attaining his majority, Hans P. Larson determined to try his fortunes
in the new land beyond the sea and in 1879 came to the United States, proceeding
to Kansas and joining his sister, Mrs. P. Johnson, in Marshall county. For a
year after coming here he was engaged in railway construction work at Vermillion
and then went to Kansas City, where he secured employment in the roundhouse and
shops of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, where he gave such a good
account of himself that he presently was promoted to the position of locomotive
engineer, a position he held for twenty years, running for the Union Pacific
Railroad Company. In 1906 Mr. Larson retired from the railway service and
returned to Marshall county. Here he bought a fine farm of a quarter section in
Rock township, established his home there, improved the place until it became
one of the best-kept farms in that part of the county, and there spent the
remainder of his life, his death occurring on June 21, 1915. Mr. Larson was a
Republican in his political faith and by religious persuasion was a Lutheran,
ever giving his earnest attention both to civic affairs and to church work, a
good citizen in all that term implies, and his widow and children are members of
the Lutheran church.

    In 1883, three or four years after coming to this country, Hans P. Larson
was united in marriage to Eva Betty Benson, who also was born in Sweden, March
20, 1865, daughter of B. and Celia (Nelson) Benson, natives of that same
country, the former born on April 5, 1829, and the latter, February 11, 1837,
who came to this country in 1892 and located at Kansas City, where their
daughter then was living, and where they remained until 1908, when they came to
Marshall county to make their home with Mr. and Mrs. Larson.

    To Hans P. and Eva Betty (Benson) Larson five children were born, namely:
Louis Barnhart Larson, now foreman in Rand's iron works at Detroit, Michigan:
Mrs. Clara Marie Gunderson, of Colome, South Dakota; Mrs. Esther Eldere Nord,
living near Winifred, this county; Peter Herman Larson, born on October 1, 1899,
who is operating the home farm for his mother, and Edna Adena, born on January
15, 1901. The Larsons have a very pleasant home and take a proper part in the
general social activities of the community in which they live.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)


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