BIOGRAPHIES:  William T. LARSON, Stanfold Township, Barron Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  24 February 2004
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William T. Larson, a prosperous farmer of Section 23, Stanfold Township,
was born in Denmark, Jan. 15, 1875, the son of Christopher and Margaret
(Rasmussen) Larson, natives of that country, who came to America in 1889
and located in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, where he died the next year, the
mother now living with the son, William T., at the age of eighty-seven
years. The subject of this sketch attended school in Denmark, and came to
this country with his parents in 1889 as a boy of fourteen. He early
started to earn his own living, working in the woods and on farms. He
bought his present farm in 1899. It was then a wild tract of cut-over land,
with the frame of a house standing on it. He has developed the tract into a
good farm and has put up a good frame house, a barn with a full basement, a
granary, sheds and other buildings. He has fenced and cultivated the land,
and has purchased good equipment. Here he successfully carries on general
farming and dairying, and has a good herd of graded Shorthorn cattle. He is
a man of good judgment and good sense, and is a most estimable citizen in
every respect. He is a stockholder in the Pleasant View Cheese Co. in Rice
Lake Township. Fraternally, he is a popular member of the Beavers. Mr.
Larson was married April 5, 1899, in Stanfold Township, to Mrs. Emma
Michaud, who was born in Rice Lake Township, Feb. 22, 1869, the daughter of
Henry and Charlotta (Sholke) Sawyer. She was the widow of D. Michaud. Mr.
and Mrs. Larson have four children: Evelyn C. was born Aug. 4, 1901,
married Roy Chapman, of Pewaukee, and has twin daughters, Marjory and
Dorothy. Leona V. was born April 6, 1903, married John Hauck, of Oak Grove,
and has one child, Dewane. Violet C. was born April 26, 1906. Wanda M. was
born Aug. 19, 1909. By her previous marriage, Mrs. Larson has two children:
Cisoree Michaud, born Aug. 20, 1890, and George Michaud, born July 25,
1893.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 177-178.


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