JOHN LARSON, farmer and Postmaster of Spink, SD located on Section 22, Town 93, Range 50, in 1867. The post office was established July 1, 1872, and Mr. Larson has held the office of Postmaster continuously since. He is largely engaged in stock raising. Mr. Larson is one of the county¹s first settlers. When he located his homestead the nearest railroad station was Missouri Valley, Iowa and the nearest mill twenty miles distant. Mr. Larson was born in Vardal, in Norway, July 27, 1843, where he was engaged in farming. He immigrated to the United States in 1861 and located in Dane County, Wisconsin. August 14, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, Twenty-seventh Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the battles of Vicksburg, Camden, Mobile, Little Rock and Clarksville, and was mustered out August 31, 1865, at Brownsville, Texas. He returned to Dane County and was there engaged in farming until he came to Dakota. In 1869 he married, in Wisconsin, Miss Ingeborg A. Linaas. They have seven children, Louis A., Ingeborg S., Anna M., Ida J., John A., Edward Martin and Lizzie Olena. Mr. Larson has been Justice of the Peace for two terms at Spink, and has always been a Republican.