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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  H. W. LARSON, junior member of the firm known as the Wilmont Creamery company,

was born in Neenah, Wis., Sept. 7, 1879, the son of A. C. and Lena (Anderson)

Larson. The father, a native of Denmark, came to the United States when a young

man and located in Wisconsin, in Polk county, of which state he is now a

resident at the age of 60 years. Our subject's mother, also a native of Denmark,

died in Neenah, Wis., in 1892, at the age of 37 years.



  Mr. Larson was educated in the district schools near Neenah and in the normal

school at Oshkosh. He lived near Neenah until fifteen years of age and then the

family moved to Freeborn county, Minn., where he resided on the farm with his

parents two years. He then went to Clark's Grove, Minn., where he took

employment in the first creamery separator plant operated in the state of

Minnesota, with which he was connected two years. During the next four years he

was located at Hartland, Minn., where he had charge of a creamery plant. Then he

returned to his home, where he worked in a creamery two and one-half years.



  It was in March, 1906, that Mr. Larson came to Wilmont and bought a half

interest in the Wilmont creamery, of which he has since had charge. This

creamery was first started in the summer of 1902, by Smith & West. There were

several changes in the ownership before Mr. Larson became identified with the

business, A. V. Smith, of Hardwick, retaining an interest all the time, however,

and that gentleman is still a part owner of the plant. Mr. Larson has added new

machinery and made other improvements in the plant, and the result is an

increased and increasing patronage. The creamery is one of the best in the

country and has capacity for all future demands.



  Wherever Mr. Larson has been engaged in the creamery business he has

established a record as a butter maker, and during the years he has been so

engaged has taken a number of prizes. At the Minnesota state fair in 1900 he

received third prize, and second prize at the Pan-American exposition in

Buffalo. He was awarded a bronze medal, at the St. Louis exposition, and at the

Wisconsin State Buttermakers' convention in 1904 he won the gold medal on grand

sweepstakes.



  Mr. Larson is a member of many fraternal orders. He belongs to the M. W. A.,

Yeomen, Odd Fellows and Masonic orders. Of the latter order he holds membership

in the Blue lodge at Neenah, Wis., in the Royal Arch at Worthington, and in the

Commandry at Luverne.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908

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