BIOGRAPHIES: Gust A. LARSON, Barron, Barron County, WI ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Vic Gulickson 8 April 2002 ==================================================================== Gust A. Larson, garage owner and auto dealer of Barron, was born in Arland Township, this county, Aug. 11, 1892, son of Lars and Bertha (Jacobson) Johnson, settlers of this county. He remained on the home farm until 1918, when he was inducted into the World War service in the third draft. He was assigned to the 127th Machine Gun Company, 32d Division, trained at Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill., and Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas, and was discharged Feb. 2, 1919. Upon his return to Barron County he rested a time and then entered the employ of a garage at Hallock, Minn. That fall he went to Minneapolis, Minn., and was similarly employed. In April, 1920, he came to Barron City and engaged in the automobile business for himself. He has built a substantial tile garage on Sixth street, 30 by 80 feet, carries a full line of supplies, does general repairing, and has the agency for the "Dort" and the "Elgin Six" for this territory. He is popular, is doing a good business, and is well on the road to success. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 124.