BIOGRAPHIES:  Christ LARSON, Barron, Barron Co., WI

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Transcribed by Kate Wilson. 
Edited and submitted by  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  3 January 2004
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Christ Larson, retired farmer, now residing in Barron City, was born May
2, 1852, in Norway, son of Lars and Anna (Hanson) Larson, both now
deceased.

He received his education in Norway and came to America in 1866, settling
first in Iowa County, Wisconsin. In 1880 he came to Barron County and
bought a quarter section of railroad land in Maple Grove Township. He
cleared 60 acres, erected a good set of buildings and carried on general
farming and dairying until 1902 when he sold out and took up his home in a
house which he had erected himself in Barron City. He is well known both in
the city and township and while living in the country did good service as a
member of the school board for five years. Mr. Larson was married May 25,
1880, to Anna Jacobson who was born in Norway April 30, 1853, daughter of
Jacob and Carrie (Everson) Jacobson, both now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Larson
are the parents of four children: Laurina 0. was born May 6, 1881, and is
now Mrs. Arnold Heyer of Wyoming. Clara E. was born May 6, 1883, and also
lives in Wyoming. Julius was born March 16, 1889, and operates a market in
Barron. Jennie was born March 29, 1892, and is now Mrs. Thomas Lindland of
North Dakota. The family faith is that of the Norwegian Lutheran Church.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 123.


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