On the 28th of December, 1898, Mr. Larson was united in marriage to Miss Ella Walker, a daughter of Torkel Walker, a native of Norway, who came to America when a young man and passed thirty-three years of his life in Polk and Story counties. He is a carpenter by trade but has also successfully engaged in farming and is now living in Slater. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Larson three children have been born : Cecil Anselm, Leslie Truman and Miriam Lucile.
Mr. Larson gives his adherence to the republican party and his voice is often heard in its councils in his part of the county. He has served many times as a member of the town council and also for eight or ten years as mayor of the town, being recognized as one of the most efficient executive officers the town has known. He is a valued member of Slater Lodge, No. 384, I. O. O. F., and he and his wife are connected with the Rebekahs and the Lutheran church. He is a stanch friend of education and always lends his aid to the public schools. As a citizen he is patriotic, prompt and true to every obligation and as a man he is held in the highest honor and esteem by all classes.
CAPTAIN THOMAS Clifton McCALL.
For many years one of the most distinguished citizens of Story county, Captain Thomas Clifton McCall, now deceased, gained a reputation for enterprise, sound judgment and integrity which has been accorded few men in this part of the state. In both private and public affairs he was eminently successful, gaining a fortune and at the same time proving by his useful and honorable life a constant source of inspiration to those with whom he was associated.
He was born in Ross county, Ohio, September 4, 1827, a son of Samuel W. and Ann (Clifton) McCall. The father was born in Kentucky in 1792 and the mother in Ross county, Ohio, in 1795. In his early manhood Samuel W. McCall was a soldier in the war of 1812 and was wounded at the battle of Maguauga, which occurred about the time of Hull's surrender. He came to Iowa and located in Polk county, where he died in 1864, his wife having passed away in Ross county, Ohio, in 1833. He was a son of Samuel McCall, who was born about 1750 in Maryland and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He was drowned in Licking river, Kentucky, in 1795. Our subject's maternal grandfather, Thomas Clifton, who was born in South Carolina about 1740, fought under General Nathaniel Greene in the war for independence and later settled in Ross county, Ohio, where he died about 1830.
In 1836 Thomas Clifton McCall came with his father to Burlington, Iowa, where they remained during the summer, removing in the fall to Fulton county, Illinois, where he lived on a farm for ten years. At the