History of Clay and Norman counties, Minnesota : their people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . th natives of Norway, where they remained their wholelives, the former being a school teacher and landowner. They were theparents of seven children, Nels. Jacob, Johan (deceased), .Anna (deceased).Peter, Hansena and Mads. Mads Larson, who spent his boyhood and early manhood in the landof his nativity, decided, in 1876. that his opportunity lay in the New Worldacross the Atlantic, and in that ye
History of Clay and Norman counties, Minnesota : their people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . th natives of Norway, where they remained their wholelives, the former being a school teacher and landowner. They were theparents of seven children, Nels. Jacob, Johan (deceased), .Anna (deceased).Peter, Hansena and Mads. Mads Larson, who spent his boyhood and early manhood in the landof his nativity, decided, in 1876. that his opportunity lay in the New Worldacross the Atlantic, and in that year came to America, locating for twoyears in \\inneshiek county. Iowa. Seeking to better , he decidedto come northward into Minnesota. Driving a team of horses hitched toa covered wagon, he attached himself to a party of two hundred settlers,and they all started from Ossian, ^^inneshiek county, Iowa, for Normancounty, Minnesota. As Mr. Larson and Hans Larson, now a residentof Ada, who is mentioned elsewhere in this work, drove horses and theircompanions oxen, they soon the slow-er moving settlers andarrived at their destination first, the journey taking them about two .Mi;. A.\T> MKS. .\IAI)S
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