Lars Johan Skromme

SKROMME

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Date: 1/6/2004 at 05:26:42

Lars Johan Skromme
Senator from the thirty-first district which includes Boone and Story counties. Residence Roland. He was born in Norway in 1879. He immigrated to the United States in 1885 with his parents, settling on a farm near Roland, Story county, Iowa. He received his early education in a one room country school, attending school about three months during the winter and working on the farm the balance of the year. He studied at Highland Park college, now Des Moines University, Des Moines, Iowa; Red Wing Seminary, Red Wing, Minnesota, and Northwestern university, Evanston, Illinois. He has served as pastor of the Lutheran church at Eagle Grove, Iowa, and Pontiac, Illinois. He has been at different times engaged in the real estate business at Clarion, Iowa, and Thief River Falls, Minnesota. Immediately following the entry of the United States into the World War he enlisted as a private in the Iowa National Guard and and was later mustered into federal service. After the armistice he received honorable discharge, having attained the rank of first lieutenant of the infantry. Since the war he has been engaged in farm operations and in the seed business at Roland, where he organized the Skromme Seed Company of which he is now president. Elected to the senate in 1924. Republican.

Iowa Official Register 1927-1928 - Biographies of State Senators, pg. 235