When Ove Peder Larsen was born on 18 June 1845, in Hellum, Dronninglund, Hjørring, Denmark, his father, Lars Jensen, was 37 and his mother, Ingeborg Ovesdatter, was 25.
He had at least 3 sons and 2 daughters with Ane Marie (Nielsen) Larsen.
In 1890 Danish couple Ove Peter Larsen (1845-1918) and Anna Mary Larsen homesteaded in the area now known as Larsen Lake Farm (also known as Blueberry Lake), harvesting wild blue huckleberries and cranberries from the surrounding wetlands.
Ove worked at the Newcastle coal mines.
At the time, the Larsen homestead was extremely isolated. Mary would sometimes go months without seeing a single neighbor. Their homestead was located southeast of the Goff homestead.
In the early years on the Bellevue farm, Ove fell ill one winter, before his barn was finished. Neighbors chipped in and got the roof up. Ove repaid them in surplus beef.
Ove purchased the farm’s first potato seeds in Kirkland, which was 10 miles away, and transported them back in a push wheelbarrow.
Children:
Christian Larsen 1878–1964
Lars Larsen 1880–1931
Ingeborg Larsen 1881–Deceased
James Larsen 1885–1938
Anna Larsen 1896–Deceased
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