Bio of Nels J. HANSEN (b.1859), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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NELS J. HANSEN (1905)

Nels J. Hansen owns and farms the southeast quarter of section 29, Oshkosh
township.  He is a native of Denmark and was born October 9, 1859.  His
parents were Hans N. Hansen and Christina (Krommes) Hansen.

At the age of fifteen years Nels became a follower of the sea, and for the
next ten years his home was on sailing vessels and steamboats.  During this
period he visited nearly all the countries of the world, including England,
Spain, Turkey, Russia, Africa, the Philippine Islands, China, Japan, South
America, Cuba and the United States.

In 1884 Mr. Hansen gave up the sea and became a resident of the United
States, spending the first few months at New Bedford, Massachusetts. A year
was then spent working in the woolen mills in Maine.  We next find our
subject in Grundy county, Illinois, where he married Nellie Rees, who was
born March 7, 1865, in Swansea, South Wales.  Her parents were John Rees 
and Margrett (Davis) Rees, of Swansea, South Wales.  Mrs. Hansen died in 
Grundy county, Illinois, April 10, 1894, leaving one child, Willie Hansen, 
who is now located west of Canby.  In 1905 Nels Hansen located in Yellow 
Medicine county, rented land several years, and then purchased his present 
farm in Oshkosh.

Mr. Hansen is clerk of school district No. 36.  He and his family belong 
to the German Lutheran Church of Canby.  Mr. Hansen has stock in the 
farmers' elevator companies at Canby and Burr.

Mr. Hansen was married in Grundy county, Illinois, October 22, 1896, to
Annie Hanson, who was born in the county in which she was married November
7, 1873.  Her parents are Andrew B. and Mary (Persnic) Hanson, residents of
Oshkosh township and natives, respectively, of Denmark and Germany.  The
nine children of Mr. and Mrs. Hansen are Martin, Nellie, Lydia, Alvina,
Emma, Clara, Andrew, Mary and Carl.

Source: "A History of Yellow Medicine County" by Arthur P. Rose
Published 1914