- P. A. LARSEN, farmer, Sec. 18; P.O. Brodhead; born in Vadso
in the most northern part of
- Norway, in 1839; the son of Marchant E. and Cecelia LARSEN;
he came to America in July, 1865, and went to Chicago, where
he was engaged in mercantile business a short time, and then,
on account of sickness, went on to a farm to work; was appointed
teacher of Norwegian language in schools; he first came to Wisconsin
in 1870; farmed, and was also engaged in teaching school in the
winter, until December, 1873; he then came to Avon, and, April
10, 1874, married Widow SVENSON, who owned a farm in Sec. 18;
she had one son - Sebert Louis SVENSON, born Aug. 12, 1865; when
her first husband died, the estate went into the hands of an
administrator; part of it went to this son and part to the widow;
Mrs. LARSEN was born in Norway in 1825, and came to America July,
1857; she married Iver SVENSON, September, 1858, in Dakota, Green
Co., Wis., where they lived till 1869, and then came to Avon;
when here, bought 150 acres of land with a house on it, which
he paid cash for, earned by hard labor, and he died in Avon Sept.
8, 1872.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 883.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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