Lars Christensen Quam

1910 - Eddy Township, Clearwater County, Minnesota.

Lars Quam was born in Aurlands Parish, Norway, the 18th of March in 1851. On the 2nd of May, 1870 he left Norway to go to America. In June he arrived in Quebec in Canada and the 2nd of July he came to Goodhue County in Minnesota. He soon left Goodhue County and went to Steel County in Minnesota where he lived one year, then moved again to Goodhue County. Next year he moved again to Steel County. In July of 1871 he went to Fillmore County in Minnesota and was there until 1873 when he again moved to Goodhue County. Here he lived until the spring of 1875 when he moved to Freeborn County and bought land 8 miles from Albert Lea, Minnesota.

In the fall of 1876 he again moved to Goodhue County where he married Miss Sigrid Holum.

They moved then to Goodhue again, where he again bought land. In the year of 1880 he sold the land in Goodhue County and moved westward to Walsh County in North Dakota where his wife's parents died and lived there until spring of 1884. He moved then to Park River, North Dakota where he built a boarding house. The same fall he sold out in Park River and moved here, where he bought land in Section 6, Township of Flom. They had six children.