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Born 1885
From An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912)
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 An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Their biographies name Christine Hanson: Christ Sigurdson (b. 1891)
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