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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  LEWIS LARSON. One of the pioneer settlers of Nobles county is Lewis Larson,

who came to the county with his parents in 1871 when a boy eleven years of age.

He is a Bigelow township farmer, owning 440 acres in sections 26, 25 and 28, as

well as 230 acres in Sioux Valley township, Jackson county.



  Lewis Larson was born in Jemtland, Sweden, Oct. 7, 1860, the son of Peter and

Brita (Landberg) Larson. The father was born in 1828, and died in Bigelow

township April 17, 1904. The mother still lives in Bigelow township. The family

came to America in June, 1869, and located in Minnesota. From June until the

fall of the year Peter Larson worked near Minneapolis on the Minneapolis & St.

Louis railroad, which was then building. About the middle of December he moved

to the city of Minneapolis, where he worked on a tunnel and kept boarding house

for the workmen.



  It was during the year 1871 that the family moved from Minneapolis to the new

country of Nobles county. The father took as a homestead claim the northeast

quarter of section 26, Bigelow township, which was his home until his death,

thirty-three years later. Having only about $350 when the family arrived in the

county, many hardships were endured during the first few years residence there.

For some time the family home was a dug-out. The head of the family secured

employment on the new railroad, working with the gravel crew, thus securing

enough to support the family. The crops were almost a total failure during the

grasshopper days.



  Until he was twenty-three years of age Lewis Larson resided on the home farm,

although spending part of the time working out at farm and railroad work. In

1883 he moved to Sioux Valley township, in Jackson county, where he purchased a

homestead right, to which he in time secured title. For almost thirteen years he

was engaged in farming there, and then, upon his brother's death, he returned to

Nobles county to take charge of the home farm.



  Mr. Larson was married near Lake Park, Iowa, on November 28, 1889, to Hersa

Hardy, a native of Good Thunder, Minn., and a daughter of C. M. and Margaret

Hardy. To Mr. and Mrs. Larson have been born the following children: Bessie,

born Oct. 1, 1890; Winnie, born Oct. 10, 1892, Edna, born July 13, 1897; Viola,

born Oct. 10, 1898.



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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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