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Agnes Larson

Biographical Notes

Date of birth: March 15, 1892, Preston, Minnesota
Date of death: January 24, 1967, Rochester, Minnesota

Agnes Mathilde Larson. Historian and author. B.A., St. Olaf College, 1916. M.A., Columbia University, 1922; Ph.D., Radcliffe College, 1938. High school teacher and principal in Walcott, North Dakota, Harmony, Minnesota, and Northfield, Minnesota, circa 1916-21; instructor, Mankato State Teachers College (later Mankato State University), 1922-25. History professor, St. Olaf College, Minnesota, 1926-60; department chairman, 1942-60; professor emeritus 1960-67. Wrote History of the White Pine Industry in Minnesota (1949) and John A. Johnson: An Uncommon American (1969). Received fellowship for dissertation research from American Association of University Women, circa 1932. Agnes M. Larson Hall, St. Olaf College dormitory, named for her in 1964.

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Sources used to prepare this author entry

The following bibliography may include links to Web sites that are no longer operable or have changed location. The sources are shown as they existed in the fall of 1999 when the entries were compiled.
  • St. Paul Pioneer Press, 26 June 1981, p. 27F.
  • Stuhler, Barbara, and Gretchen Kreuter, eds. Women of Minnesota. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1977.
  • White, Bernice, ed. Who's Who in Minnesota. Seattle: Hugh L. White, 1958.
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