Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson Birth Certificate.

Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson Baptism Certificate, Salem Lutheran Church, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, June 29, 1913.

Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson, age 7 months.

Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson on a box, Olaus Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, about 1914. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Cora Ethel Olivia Johnson and Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson, Larson farm, Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, about spring, 1914. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson; and dear old Carlo, the Larson family dog; Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, about summer, 1914. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

The card had handwritten at the top of the picture: Merry Christmas.

Almo Joshua Larson; Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson; and Emma Jane (Abbey) Larson; Olaus Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, about 1914. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson feeding chickens, Larson farm, Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, about spring, 1914. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson with wagon, and black puppy, Larson farm, Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, about 1915. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Emma Jane (Abbey) Larson; Almo Joshua Larson; and Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson; Larson farm, Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, about 1915. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson, and horse, Peggy, Larson farm, Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, about 1915. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson on Peggy or Colonel, the horse, Larson Farm, Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, about 1915. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Laurel Victoria Nelson; Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson; and Olive Sophia Nelson. The Olaus Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, about 1915. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

   

Larson family group, Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, about 1916. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Top row, left to right: Emma Jane (Abbey) Larson; Almo Joshua Larson; Norma Victoria (Nelson) Larson; Arthur David "Art" Larson; and Olaus Larson.

Bottom row, left to right: Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson; Freeda Wilhelmina (Larson) Lewis; and Carl Cornelius Svahn/Larson.

       

Ruth Gertrude Bickett birth certificates, Village of Yellow Springs, Greene Co., OH, December 23, 1916.

The Xenia Daily Gazette, Xenia, Greene Co., OH, Tuesday, December 26, 1916

YELLOW SPRINGS

Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Bickett are the parents of a baby daughter, born Saturday afternoon.

Wilbur Larson (near front row, second from left, with tie blowing in the breeze), School District No. 5, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI. Jo Hoy, Teacher (back row, second from right), about  1920.

   

The Ladies with children in School District No. 5, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, about 1920.

   

Wilbur Larson (front row, far left), School District No. 5, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI. Jo Hoy, Teacher (back row, far right), about 1920.

   

School District No. 5, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, Johanne Hoy, Teacher, about 1920.

   

Johanne Andrea "Johanna" Hoy with her students, School District No. 5, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, about 1920. Johanne Andrea Hoy was born May 21, 1896, in Waupaca Co., WI; died January 1, 1981, in Waupaca, Waupaca Co., WI (age 84). Her Mother was divorced from her father in Waupaca, Waupaca Co., WI, on March 8, 1921. Johanne Andrea Hoy married Walter Emil Anderson (Born February 21, 1892, in St. Lawrence Twp., Waupaca C., WI; died January 21, 1955, in Unknown (age 61). Both are buried in Lakeside Memorial Park, Waupaca, Waupaca Co., WI. They had several children, and lived on a farm in Lanark Twp., Portage Co., WI.

Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, about 1920. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

From left to right: Emma Jane (Abbey) Larson; Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson; Almo Joshua Larson; the Farm Dog; Norma Victoria (Nelson) Larson; Arthur David Larson; Carl Cornelius Svahn/Larson; Lena Sophia Svensson (Rosander) Nelson; and Mildred Alice (Conklin) Wilson.

Mildred Alice Conklin married Roy William  Wilson on September 30, 1919, and lived in Rockford, Winnebago Co., IL, after November 1, 1919.

Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson swimming, probably at the Chain O' Lakes, King, Waupaca Co., WI, about 1920. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Almo, Emma and Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson in their cornfield, Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, June 6, 1920. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson on Colonel, the horse, Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, June, 1920. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson and Colonel, the horse, Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, June, 1920. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson and Ethel Clara Lewis on Colonel, the horse, Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, June, 1920. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Almo Joshua Larson and Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson with two horses, Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, about 1920. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Ethel Clara Lewis (Born December 11, 1914, in the Village of New Leipzig, Grant Co., ND); and Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson; Olaus Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, June, 1920. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Three generations of the Olaus Larson family, at the Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, about 1920. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Left to right: Olaus Larson; Almo Joshua Larson; and Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson.

This is the last known picture of Olaus Larson, who died November 11, 1920.

Emma Jane (Abbey) Larson; and Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson; with two trout, Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, about 1920. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Emma Jane (Abbey) Larson; Freeda (Larson) Lewis; and Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson; Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, June, 1920. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson feeding chickens, Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, July, 1920. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

November, 1920.

OLAUS LARSON DIES AFTER SHORT ILLNESS AT FARMINGTON HOME

Olaus Larson of Town of Farmington passed away at his home last Thursday evening, November 11, 1920, after a brief illness of only three days. Deceased was born on Smaland, Sweden April 23, 1851 and came to this country in 1872. He located at Marquette, MI where he was united in marriage to Katherine Olivia Larson, May 13, 1874. During the same year they moved to Marin Co., CA where they lived for nearly six years. In 1880 Mr. Larson with his family came to this city and purchased the farm in Farmington, 2 1/2 miles northwest of this city, on which he lived until his death. To this union were born seven children, Emily, Mrs. G. Alfred Johnson who passed away in 1905; Emil, who died in 1892; Arthur, on Route 1, Sheridan; Almo, on the old homestead; Edith, Mrs. C. C. Nelson, living at Iona, SD; Walter, of Pittsburgh, PA; and Freeda (Mrs. Robert Lewis) now living at Birmingham, AL. The two oldest, Mrs. Johnson and Emil, were born in California and the other five were born in Farmington. Besides his five children he leaves to mourn his death five brothers, Gus Lewis of this city, Swen Freeberg of Miles City, MT, and three brothers in Sweden, fifteen grandchildren and a host of relatives and friends. After the death of Mrs. Larson, the home was maintained by the youngest daughter, Miss Freeda, until six years ago when the homestead was sold to Almo Larson. From that time Mr. Larson made his home at the old homestead to which he was so strongly attached. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at the home at one o'clock and at the Salem church in Farmington at two o'clock, Rev. F. G. Olson of Wisconsin Rapids, officiating. The relatives attending the last rites were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Larson and daughter Ellen of Pittsburgh, PA; G. Alfred Johnson and daughter Cora of Boyceville, Swen Freeberg of Miles City, MT. Deceased was a very true and active member of Salem Lutheran church of which he had been a member since 1880. For supervising the extensive improvements that have been made to the church during the past few weeks, Mr. Larson was appointed a committee of one and was on the job every day and was gratified to note that a day or two more would mark the completion of the work he was entrusted to supervise. The habits of thrift and industry which characterize so many of the Scandinavian people were deeply impressed upon the subject of this sketch and were the basic reasons for the success he attained after the purchase of eighty acres of unimproved land which, with forty acres that he homesteaded, were later turned from an unbroken tract into a splendid farm with most convenient and up-to-date home buildings. 

Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin, Edited by John M. Ware, 1917.

OLAUS LARSON. One of the well-to-do families of Waupaca County is represented by Mr. Olaus Larson, who has lived in one locality of Farmington Township over thirty five years, and has long been enjoying the splendid fruits of his early toil and industry. Like the majority of Americans who were born in the Scandinavian countries, he started his career in the United States without special advantages or capital, and has relied entirely upon hard work and good judgment to put him ahead in the world.

Mr. Larson was born in Sweden April 23, 1851, a son of Lars Pehrsson and Christina Olsdotter. His mother died in 1856 and his father in 1886. The training afforded by the common schools of Sweden was the education Olaus acquired as a boy. He grew up with the habits of industry firmly fixed in his character, and was competent to make his own way when he reached America. In 1872 he located at Marquette, Michigan, but in 1875 went west to California, and remained in the Golden State for five years. In 1880 Mr. Larson came to Waupaca County and bought eighty acres of the farm which he now owns and occupies. At the same time he homesteaded forty acres nearby, and all of this land is now under improvement. The commodious buildings found on the farm are the product mainly of his own handiwork as a practical carpenter, and he has added some improvements or item of value to his farm almost every year since he located there.

He now has a complete lighting system installed for use in his home and outbuildings and has many of the comforts which are usually found only in city homes. Mr. Larson features the Holstein cattle as the principal revenue producers on his farm.

Having children growing up in his home, he has naturally been interested in the welfare of the local schools and served a number of years on the school board. For two terms he was supervisor of his township. He is a republican in politics and a member of the Swedish Lutheran Church.

In 1874 in Marquette, Michigan, he married Miss Olivia Larson. She was born in Sweden in 1848. Her father died in the old country and her mother subsequently came to America and lived at St. Paul, Minnesota, where she died at the home of a son in 1901. Mrs. Larson was a splendid companion and helpmate to her husband, and during the thirty years of their married life she reared a family to self-respecting manhood and womanhood. Her death occurred in August, 1906. There were seven children, a brief record of them being as follows: Emilia Sophia, who was born in California and died at Sheridan, in Waupaca County, in August, 1905; Emil, who died when fifteen years old; Arthur, who is a mail carrier and farmer at Sheridan; Edith Christine, wife of Clarence C. Nelson, living in South Dakota; Almo, who has bought his father's farm, married Emma Abbey, daughter of William Abbey, of Milladore, Wisconsin, and they have one child, Wilbur; Walter, who is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in the technical course, is now a successful young mechanical engineer at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Freeda is a graduate nurse, having taken her training in the Cook County Hospital, of Chicago, and is now practicing her profession in that city.

Mrs. Sandstedt; Mr. Jacobson; Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson; Emma Jane (Abbey) Larson; and Almo Joshua Larson; Almo Joshua Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, about 1922. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Larson family group, Almo Joshua Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, June, 1923. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Back row, left to right: Frida Maria Constance (Norlin) Roche; Norlin Joseph Roche; and Emma Jane (Abbey) Larson.

Front row, left to right: Unknown; and Carl Cornelius Svahn/Larson.

The Larson family dog, dear old Carlo, Almo Joshua Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, June, 1923. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

       

The Larson/Lewis Family Reunion was held Sunday, August 2, 1925, at the Almo Larson Residence, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI. According to Freeda (Larson) Lewis, "All were related to either Gustav Larsson Lewis on my father's side of the family, or to Aunt Sophia Larsdotter Lundgren on my mother's side of family. Uncle Gust. was my father's brother. Aunt Sophia was my mother's sister."

All were related (related only through marriage shown in italics): Lars Pehrsson: Magnus Larsson, Lars Pehrsson: Gustaf Larsson Lewis, Lars Pehrsson/Lars Nilsson: Olaus Larsson, Lars Nilsson: Sophia (Larsdotter) Lundgren, Lars Nilsson: Fredrika (Larsdotter) Larson, Lars Pehrsson: Andreas Larsson, Lars Nilsson: Anders Larsson Dahlquist, Lars Nilsson: Amanda Albertina Larsdotter, Lars Nilsson: Carl Johan Alfred Larsson Dahlberg.

Shown below is the people list according to Emma Jane (Abbey) Larson (edited):

Back row left to right: Esther (Schlicting) Lewis - wife of Irving Lewis, Irving Lewis - son of Gustaf Lewis, Clarence Peterson - husband of Clara Lewis, Margaret "Peggy" Peterson - daughter of Clarence and Clara Peterson, Clara (Lewis) Peterson - daughter of Gustaf Larsson Lewis, Philip Lewis - son of Gustaf Larsson Lewis, Frank Lear - husband of Edith Lewis, Edith (Lewis) Lear - daughter of Gustaf Larsson Lewis, Ed Lewis - son of Gustaf Larsson Lewis, Carrie (Lye) Lewis - wife of Ed Lewis, Herbert Lear - son of Edith and Frank Lear.

Second Row from top: Clarence Norlin - son of August and Christine Norlin), Andrew Andersen (Julianne Andersen Lewis' brother), Olga M. (Larson) Swenson - daughter of Fredrika Larsdotter Larson and Lewis Larson, Karl Ludwig Swenson - Husband of Olga M. Larson, Verona Swenson - daughter of Karl Ludwig and Olga Swenson, Lucille Anderson - daughter of Lewis and Amanda Anderson, Olga (Dahlberg) Larson - daughter of Carl Johan Alfred Larsson Dahlberg and wife of Charles Oscar Anderson Larson - son of Lewis Anderson and Amanda Albertina Larsdotter, Cora (Johnson) Johnson - daughter of Alfred and Emily (Larson) Johnson, Helen (Fraser) Larson - wife of Walter Larson, Walter Larson - son of Olaus Larsson, Edith (Larson) Nelson - daughter of Olaus Larsson, Freeda (Larson) Lewis - daughter of Olaus Larsson, Almo Larson - son of Olaus Larsson, Emma (Abbey) Larson - wife of Almo Larson, Wilbur Larson - son of Almo Larson.

Third row from top: Cora (Wagner) Lewis - wife of Albert Lewis, Albert Lewis - son of Gustaf Larsson Lewis, Per August Magnusson Larson, son of Magnus Larsson, Christine (Andersdotter) Norlin - wife of August Norlin, August Norlin - husband of Christine Andersdotter, Gustaf Larsson Lewis, Charles Oscar Anderson Larson - son of Amanda Albertina Larsdotter and husband of Olga A. (Dahlberg) Larson - daughter of Carl Johan Alfred Larsson Dahlberg, Amanda Dahlberg - wife of Carl Johan Larsson Dahlberg, Sophia (Larsdotter) Lundgren - sister of Catarina Larson, Fred Johnson - husband of Emily Larson, Arthur Larson - son of Olaus Larsson, Norma (Nelson) Larson - wife of Arthur Larson, Evan Lewis - son of Robert and Freeda (Larson) Lewis.

Front row: Lorraine (Lewis) Arndt - daughter of Irving Lewis, Carol (Peterson) Callahan - daughter of Clarence and Clara Peterson, Julianne (Peterson) Harris - daughter of Clarence and Clara Peterson, Laurence Lewis - son of Albert and Cora Lewis, Edith Anderson - sister of Esther Anderson Larson, Esther Anderson (Larson) Pletenik - adopted daughter of Arthur and Norma Larson, Olive (Larson) Worthing - daughter of Walter and Helen Larson, Kenneth Lewis - son of Irving and Esther Lewis, Naomi (Lear) Harmacek - daughter of Frank and Edith Lear, Marian (Lewis) Neuman - daughter of Ed Lewis, Betty (Larson) Steele - daughter of Walter and Helen Larson, Gordon Lewis - son of Robert and Freeda Lewis, Clifford Lewis - son of Irwin and Esther Lewis, Jean Anderson - daughter of Signe (Dahlquist) Anderson, John (Bud) Anderson - son of Signe (Dahlquist) Anderson, Signe (Dahlquist) Anderson - daughter of Anders and Emma (Larsson) Dahlquist.

Larson farm visitors, Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, August, 1926. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Top row, left to right: James Alvin Copeland; James Alvin Copeland's married sister, Mary Genevieve (Copeland) Cassidy; and Marian Alynn Stratman.

Bottom row, left to right: Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson; and dear old Carlo, the Larson family dog.

Almo Joshua Larson; and James Alvin Copeland; Almo Joshua Larson farm, Town  of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, August, 1926. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

James Alvin Copeland was an unmarried zinc miner living in Benton, Lafayette Co., WI, at the time. Some of the Stratman brothers were also miners.

   

Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson Confirmation Picture, Waupaca Co., WI, about 1927.

Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson graduated from the 8th Grade, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, on May 27, 1927.

Leonard Mason, and Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson, about 1928. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Larson group, Almo Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, about 1929. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Back row, left to right: Mary Maude (Abbey) Stratman; Emma Jane (Abbey) Larson; and Almo Joshua  Larson.

Front row, left to right: Carlo the Larson family dog; and Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson.

Family gathering, Almo Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, about 1930. Thanks to Velma for making the original picture available. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.

Back row, left to right: Helen McAdams (Frazer) Larson; Walter Emanuel Larson; Norma Victoria (Nelson) Larson; Arthur David "Art" Larson; Unknown man; Unknown woman; and Almo Joshua Larson.

Front row, left to right: Olive Wilma Larson; Carlo the Larson family dog; Elizabeth Ellen "Betty" Larson; Esther Elvira Adele Anderson; Gustav Alfred "Fred" Johnson; and Cora Ethel Olivia (Johnson) Johnson.

James Courtland Cassidy; Wilbur Almo "Bill" Larson; James Alvin Copeland; and possibly Jean Unknown. Almo Joshua Larson farm, Town of Farmington, Waupaca Co., WI, August, 1930. The enhanced and colorized photo was created using AI from an original grayscale photo, so the colors and appearances may not be correct.