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He had built up a fortune by do<strong>in</strong>g bus<strong>in</strong>ess<br />
with iron, gra<strong>in</strong> and alcohol. This gave him<br />
a muddled bus<strong>in</strong>nes. He could not deliver<br />
promised iron <strong>to</strong> the Svartå ironworks and<br />
was then sued for depts. He had 66 other<br />
credi<strong>to</strong>rs that made him go bancrupt. He<br />
even had <strong>to</strong> auction off his home Sörhult.<br />
It was not only the <strong>in</strong>nkeeper Jan<br />
Larsson who went bancrupt, so did<br />
also his older brother Olof Larsson by<br />
the same time. He had been district<br />
judge at Edsbergs Sanna and member<br />
ot the congress. In his second marriage<br />
he became brother-<strong>in</strong>-law with the<br />
county sheriff. But he had also become<br />
a local ”pig-iron-banker”<br />
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