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Born 1862
From History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916)
OLA K. HANSON.
< >la EC. Hanson, a Swede by birth, was born on April 20, 1862, but the process of naturalization in his case was a very rapid one. His parents. Hans Johnson and Buel Arvidson, both of Sweden, gave their children all the education which they could afford and as a result Mr. Hanson received but a very limited education.
Mr. Hanson came to America at the age of nineteen, and at the solicitation of friends came to Minnesota and first located in St. Paul. He worked for a time in a saw-mill 111 that city. Shortly afterward he left Minneapolis in company with three others for Fergus Falls for which place they had purchased what they supposed were through tickets. However, instead of reaching Fergus Falls they landed at Wadena and found, to their dismay, that this was the terminus of the road. They bad little or no money, but managed to hire a man to take them in his wagon toward Fergus Falls. Vfter journeying twenty or thirty miles they informed their driver that they had no money and that he might as well return to Wadena. This he did without remuneration for his services.
As printed in History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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