Saline County Bios
"Portrait and Biographical Record of Dickinson, Saline, McPherson and Marion Counties," 1893
JOHN A. LARSON, who is a druggist in Assaria, Smoky View Township, Saline County,
is a native of Sweden, having been born there July 10, 1854.
His father is L.J. Larson, who is a resident of Falun Township, where he
settled in the fall of 1869, and where he has since
been a resident. When our subject had reached
the age of fourteen years, he emigrated with his
parents to America, and lived with them in Falun
Township until he had grown to manhood. He
received the education provided by the common schools of that county. In 1882, he came to
Assaria, where he engaged in the hardware business, which calling he followed for about a year and a-half, when he sold out, and engaged in
stock-raising for about two and a-half years. He
then learned the drug trade, and has since continued in that occupation, in which he has met
with excellent success. He has shown that he is a
man of good business ability, and by his upright
dealings has won the esteem and respect of all.
Mr. Larson was united in marriage to Miss Matilda Johnson in the town of Knoxville, Ill., in
January, 1883. Her death occurred in 1886, and
she left many friends to mourn her loss.
Our subject is active in all political affairs, affiliating with the Republican party, which has his
sympathy and support. He is Secretary of the Republican Central Committee of Saline County.
The Swedish Lutheran Church, of which he is a
member, has his interest and warm support.(khhp) He
is recognized as one of the solid and enterprising
business men of this town, and his many friends
rejoice in the measure of success he has attained.
His business career has been most honorable and
upright, and this has won for him many friends.
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