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Author: A. W. Bowen (Publisher)

HANS LARSEN.

   The Scandinavian race is fairly well represented in Wyoming, and wherever
they have settled within the limits of the state they have been recognized as
honest, hard-working, intelligent and thrifty citizens. Of this class is Hans
Larsen, the popular dealer in lumber and paints at Rawlins, who was born in
Denmark in 1867, where his father died in 1902 at the age of eighty-seven years,
surviving the mother who died in 1884 when fifty-four years old. Hans Larsen was
educated in his native land, and there also learned the carpenter's trade. At
the age of twenty years he came across the broad Atlantic to America, coming
directly west to Nebraska City, Nebraska, where he resided two years. He then,
to acquire a better knowledge of the English language, attended school for some
time in Howard county, Neb., thereafter coming to Rawlins, Wyo., where through
fair dealing and a desire to please, he has built up a large trade in lumber and
paint, being the leading dealer in these articles in the town. Mr. Larsen was
united in marriage about 1893 with Miss Mary Smith, daughter of Lawrence P. and
Anna Smith, five children having been born to them in the following order:
Lewis, Catherine, Lawrence, Henry and John. Mr. Larsen has always manifested
much interest in the progress of Rawlins, and has made himself very useful in
its affairs. As a Democrat he has served as mayor one year, and has also served
three years as a member of the city council. While advocating a liberal
expenditure of funds for necessary improvements, he has been careful to advise
against extravagance and frivolous experimental schemes, believing that what has
been tested and found to be good is cheapest. Of a genial and affable
disposition he is always socially inclined, and finds great pleasure in his
association with his fellow-members of the fraternal orders of Odd Fellows, the
Elks, the Woodmen of the World and the Danish Brotherhood. He and his family
stand high in the social circles of Scandinavian society in Rawlins and are
equally well esteemed by all the other nationalities composing the population of
this growing city. Many towns of the west owe their rapid development to just
such men as Mr. Larsen, and this gentleman seems to intend to keep pace with the
best of them, and the community may well congratulate itself on having so
progressive a gentleman in its midst.


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PROGRESSIVE MEN OF THE STATE OF WYOMING

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO, ILL.
A. W. BOWEN & CO.
PUBLISHERS AND ENGRAVERS
1903


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