Biographical Sketch of Ernest Hansen, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Ernest Hansen, foreman of car and building department for the St.
Joseph and Western Railroad, is a native of Germany, and was born
in Prussia, April 29, 1846.  He came to America with his parents
when young.  His father, Henry, was a cabinet maker, and located
with his family in Chenango County, New York, where our subject
was raised, educated and learned his trade.  In 1869, he came West
and located at Netawaka, Kansas, and was in the employ of the
Central Branch of the Union Pacific until 1872, when he came to
this city, and has since been with the St. Joseph and Western
Railway.  He is among the excellent mechanics of the country, and
well up in car building and general railroad work.  In 1870, Miss
Beatrice E. Bibb, of Nemaha County, Kansas, became his wife.  They
have three children: Joseph, Arthur and Victor.  Mr. Hansen is a
Master Mason of Polar Star Lodge No. 31, of Netawaka, and a member
of the Druids.

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