Bio of Christ LARSON (b.1838), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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CHRIST LARSON (1878)

Christ Larson, deceased, who owned the southeast quarter of section 31,
Lisbon township, was a resident of Yellow Medicine county over thirty-five
years.

Mr. Larson was born in Norway, six miles south of the city of Bergen, April
12, 1838.  His parents were Lars and Annie (Johannes) Christianson, who died
in the old country--the father when Christ was only five years old.

Christ Larson was brought up and educated in Norway, living there until
1864.  His later years in the old country were employed as a fisherman and a
sailor.  He came to the United States in 1864, leaving Bergen April 17 and
arriving in Quebec five weeks later.  He lived in Winneshiek county Iowa,
until 1878, working out at farm labor a number of years, but during the last
nine years of his residence there being employed at railroad work on the
Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul.

Mr. Larson came to Yellow Medicine county in 1878 and made settlement in
Lisbon township, on land which was in dispute between the government and the
railway company.  That place he improved, and on it he made his home until
his death, which occurred October 22, 1913.  After the Minneapolis & St.
Louis railroad was built through Yellow Medicine county, Mr. Larson again
took up railroad work for a time, being section foreman at Clarkfield five
years and at Boyd four years.  He was a member of the Norwegian Lutheran
church of Clarkfield.

Mr. Larson was married March 13, 1864, in Norway, just before starting for
the United States, to Brita Peterson, who was born December 1839.  Seven
children have been born to them, namely: Anna Christina, Lars Johan, Anna,
Peter Olai, Albert Martin, Serene Christense, and Bent Cornelius.  All of
the children except the youngest, Bent Cornelius, who lives at home and
conducts the farm, are deceased.

Source: A History of Yellow Medicine County by Arthur P. Rose, Publ. 1914