The Hanson Families of Lyon County, Minnesota

HENRY O. HANSON (1881) is the manager of the Farmers & Merchants Supply Company of Minneota and has resided in Lyon county for the past thirty years. The company by which he is employed was established in 1894 and has the following officers: President, Gilbert Hammer; treasurer, H. A. Tillemans; secretary, K. E. Kjorness; manager, H. O. Hanson. They handle grain, coal and twine. Henry was born in Dane county, Wisconsin, June 20, 1859, a son of Ole and Jane (Peterson) Hanson, natives of Norway who came to Dane county in the days of the early Norwegian settlements of that state. They are both dead.

In 1879 the subject of this review immigrated to Hancock, Stevens county, Minnesota, where he resided until 1881, when he moved to Minneota — his future home. He was engaged in the hardware and implement business until 1885, then in the butcher business, and still later in the livery business until 1895, when he accepted the position he now holds.

Mr. Hanson was married in Minneota to Annie Werpe, a native of Iowa. They are the parents of eight children, as follows: Clara, Ella, Marvin, Chester, Edgar, Milton, Klenora and Milo.

Mr. Hanson has served several terms en the Village Council of Minneota. He is a member of the M. W. A. and Maccabee lodges.

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CHRISTINE HANSON (1885) owns and lives on a well-improved 120-acre farm on section 16, Nordland township. Miss Hanson does not farm the land but has a tenant on the place..

She was born in Lyon county June 8, 1885, a daughter of the late Robert and Ellen (Olson) Hanson. Her parents were early settlers of the county and homesteaders of Nordland township. Miss Hanson attended the district school until seventeen years of age and resided on the farm with her parents until the fall of 1905. Her parents then moved to Minneota, where they resided until their deaths. She spent eighteen months in Logan county, North Dakota, keeping house for her brother on a claim. She returned to her native county in November, 1908, and in March, 1911, she located on her present farm. She became part owner of the property in 1909 and sole owner in the spring of 1912. Miss Hanson is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church of Minneota.

As printed in the source¹. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.

N. W. HANSON (1897), farmer of Rock Lake township, was born May 4, 1870, and is a son of Hans and Tillie (Nelson) Johnson, the former of whom is deceased and the latter being now a resident of Sweden. Our subject was born and brought up in Sweden and attended the common schools until fourteen years of age. He then worked at farm labor until the age of twenty-three years.

In the fall of 1894 N. W. Hanson came to America and located at Dundee, Minnesota, where he was engaged as a section hand on the railroad for some months, and later as a farm laborer. It was in December, 1897, that he came to Lyon county, and he rented and farmer for himself in Rock Lake and Custer townships for seven years. With the idea of trying town life, Mr. Hanson went to Illinois and after investigating conditions there accepted employment in a hardware store in Moline, where he worked several months. He had become very well satisfied with Lyon county, however, and he resigned his position, returned to Lyon county, and again engaged in farm labor for six months. Later he returned to Moline and accepted his old position for one year.

Leaving Moline in the spring of 1907, Mr. Hanson spent the summer months in his

ass old home in Sweden. Returning to Lyon county, lie has since conducted the farm which he rents, the northwest quarter of section 1, Rock Lake. He has been successful and his farm is one of the township's fine farms.

Our subject was married July 2, 1910, at Marshall to Tillie Johnson. She is a native of Sweden and was born May 17, 1880. To this union has been born one child, Harry William. Mrs. Hanson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Swan Johnson, former residents of Hinckley, Minnesota, are both deceased.

As printed in the source¹. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.

JAMES M. HANSON (1903), Coon Creek township farmer, was born in Denmark September 15, 1876, a son of Hans and Annie (Christensen) Christopherson. James received his schooling in the land of his nativity, where he lived until eighteen years of age, when he immigrated to America.

He located at Alden, Freeborn county, Minnesota, and worked at farm labor there until 1903, the year of his arrival to Lyon county.

Mr. Hanson purchased 160 acres on section 17, Lyons township, which he held until the fall of 1911, when he sold and bought land on section 21, Coon Creek township, where he now lives. He is a member of the Danish Lutheran church and was treasurer of school district No. 69 one year.

Mr. Hanson is a man of family. He was married in Lyons township March 10, 1905, to Damie Stiefel, a native of Lyons township and a daughter of David and Jane (Jones) Stiefel, of Russell. Mr. and Mrs. Hanson are the parents of two children, Olga and Margrette.

As printed in the source¹. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.