George Larson Biography


	This biography appears on pages 922-923 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				GEORGE LARSON. 

	George Larson, a substantial agriculturist now residing at 512 
West 20th Street, Sioux Falls, owns three hundred and twenty acres of 
the finest farm land in Minnehaha county, on section 22, Split Rock 
township, where he made his home continuously for forty three years. 
His birth occurred in Sweden on the 13th of May, 1860, his parents 
being Andrew S. and Maga Lisa (Anderson) Larson. The mother died when 
our subject was but three years of age, and the father married a second 
time. In 1870 he emigrated to the United States and after spending one 
year in Winneshiek county, Iowa, came to South Dakota, in June, 1871. 
In this state he took up a preemption where his son George now resides, 
but before proving up charged it to a homestead. Thereon he spent the 
remainder of his life, passing away on the 15th of November, 1891, 
after a residence of two decades in Minnehaha county. 

	George Larson, who was ten years of age when he accompanied his 
father to the new world, attended the country schools for a time, the 
terms at that early day covering only three winter months. He was 
married when a young man of twenty-three and subsequently started out 
as an agriculturist on his own account, renting and operating his 
father's farm and also cultivating a place of his own comprising one 
hundred and sixty acres and adjoining the home property, which he had 
purchased some time previously. At the present time he owns three 
hundred and twenty acres of the finest farm land in Minnehaha county 
and in connection with its cultivation makes a specialty of stock-
raising, doing much to better the standard as a breeder of horses, 
cattle and hogs. 

	On December 27, 1883, Mr. Larson was united in marriage to Miss 
Minnie Johnson, of Split Rock township, who was born in Sweden and 
emigrated to this country in 1881, settling in South Dakota. Nine 
children have been born to them but only three survive, as follows: 
William, who is an agriculturist of Split Rock township; and Albert and 
Larson, who are managing the home farm. 

	In politics Mr. Larson is a republican and his fellow townsmen, 
recognizing his worth and ability, have called him to public office. He 
held the office of township treasurer for nine years and has also 
served as school clerk and as road overseer for a number of years. His 
religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Swedish Lutheran 
church, to which his wife and children also belong. He is well thought 
of by his neighbors, and being a man of thoroughly reliable principles, 
stands high in the estimation of all who know him.