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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  JOHN HANSBERGER. Among the old time residents of Nobles county and among the

very first to settle in Lorain township is John Hansberger, who has resided on

his present farm thirty-six years.



  Mr. Hansberger is a native of Berks county, Pennsylvania, where he first saw

the light of day on Dec. 18, 1838. His parents, Joel Hansberger and wife, were

natives of the same county, the father having been born in 1808 and the mother

in 1812. When John was a boy his parents left the old home in Pennsylvania and

sought a location in Ohio, stopping first in Pickaway county, subsequently going

to Fairfield county and finally to Sandusky county. The subject of this

biography accompanied his parents on their several moves and remained in Ohio

until 1872.



  On September 7, 1861, Mr. Hansberger enlisted in company K, of the 17th Ohio

infantry, and was a member of that company and regiment until July 16, 1865,

when he received his discharge at Louisville, Ky. He participated in the battles

of Mills Springs, Corinth, Stone River, Chickamauga, Raseca, Kenesaw Mountain,

Atlanta, Jonesboro, Savannah, Goldsboro and Raleigh.



  With the colonists of 1872 came Mr. Hansberger to Nobles county. He took as a

homestead the northeast quarter of section 20, in what was later organized as

Lorain township, and on that farm he has since made his home. He has a beautiful

home and a well improved farm and is one of the best known agriculturists of

eastern Nobles county.



  In Fairfield county, Ohio, in November, 1867, Mr. Hansberger was united in

marriage to Miss Hannah Catherine Myers, who is of German and English descent,

but who descends from a long line of American ancestors. The mother was reared a

Quaker. She was born in Bucks county, Pa., in 1808 and died in Fairfield county,

Ohio, in 1868. The father was also a native of Bucks county, having been born in

1804 and having died in Ohio in March, 1890. To Mr. and Mrs. Hansberger have

been born the following children: William L., born Dec. 10, 1868; Lizzie R.

(Mrs. E. C. Wilson), born Feb. 25, 1872; Luella C, born April 27, 1875; Victor

Clyde, born Feb. 11, 1878; James Arthur, born Sept. 19, 1881.



  Mr. and Mrs. Hansberger are members of the Methodist church of Worthington. He

belongs to Stoddard Post No. 34, G. A. R. For the last twenty years he has held

the office of township treasurer and has been a school director for several years.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 

WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908

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