young people. He remained at home assisting his father until he was eighteen years of age, when he began business for himself by drilling wells. He continued in that business for thirteen years, doing some farming at intervals, but in 1900 he embarked into the grain business. After he had engaged in that for seven years he sold out and went into the lumber business, which he is now following. In addition to his lumber interests Mr. Larson is a stockholder in the Farmers Savings Bank and the Story Independent Telephone Company.
Mr. Larson established a home for himself by his marriage to Miss May Erickson, a daughter of Michael Erickson. Unto them have been born five children: Leonard, Severt, Malcolm and Mildred, all of whom are at school; and Avis, who is at home. The family always worship with the Lutheran denomination in which church the parents hold membership and are ardent workers. Mr. Larson is one of the public-spirited and progressive citizens of his community, who well deserves the esteem which his fellow citizens entertain for him.
HENRY CLAY LOWREY.
Henry Clay Lowrey is one of the extensive landowners of Storey county and one of the most prominent importers and breeders of Percheron horses. His business interests have been so wisely and ably conducted that success in large measure has come to him and by all is acknowledged to be the merited reward of his effort.
Mr. Lowrey was born in McLean county, Illinois, March 28, 1858, his parents being Joseph and Josephine (Jenkins) Lowrey. The father, a native of Scotland, came to the United States in 1830, settling in Pennsylvania, where he lived for a short time when with two companions he started on horseback for Illinois, which at that time was largely a frontier region. Land could be obtained at a very low figure on the western frontier and Mr. Lowrey traded a horse for one hundred and sixty acres. He then turned his attention to farming and with characteristic energy converted his place into highly cultivated and productive fields. As he prospered in his undertakings he made other investments in property until his holdings aggregated several thousand acres, and he was numbered among the wealthy farmers of McLean county at the time of his death. He left a widow and four children to mourn his loss.
H. C. Lowrey, the third in order of birth, spent his boyhood and youth upon the old home farm in McLean county and in the district schools acquired his early education, which was afterward supplemented by study in the Kentucky University at Lexington for a year. He was then compelled to return home to assist in the management of the farm and remained in McLean county until 1894, when he removed to Story county,