Olaus L. Hanson Biography


	This biography appears on page 1156 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	OLAUS L. HANSON, a successful farmer of Yankton county, is a 
native son of the state and a representative of one of its honored 
pioneer families. He was born in Yankton county territory of Dakota, on 
the 12th of October, 1867, and is a son of Lars and Anne Hanson, both of 
whom were born in Norway. Lars Hanson was born September 22, 1836, and 
in 1865 was solemnized his marriage to Miss Anne Olson who was born 
February 10, 1839. In 1866 they emigrated to America and came forthwith 
to the territory of Dakota, locating on the farm which has ever since 
remained their home, the same being on section 19, range 54, township 
94, Yankton county, about two miles northeast of the village of Mission 
Hill. They were among the early settlers in the county and Mr. Hanson 
secured his land by government entry, while by well-directed industry he 
has attained success and is one of the highly esteemed citizens of the 
county. 

	The subject of this review received his early education in the 
public schools of Yankton county and continued to assist in the work and 
management of the home farm until he had attained the age of twenty-one 
years, when he engaged in drilling artesian wells, to which line of 
enterprise he devoted his attention for three years, after. which he 
farmed on rented land until 1898, when he purchased a farm of one 
hundred and sixty acres, in township 94, range 54, where he continued in 
agricultural pursuits for the ensuing three years, at the expiration of 
which he sold the property and purchased another farm of equal area, in 
township 94, range 55, about one and one-half miles distant from Mission 
Hill, where he is now successfully engaged in general farming and stock 
growing. 

	In politics Mr. Hanson is a Republican and from his youth up he 
has been a member of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran church at 
Mission Hill, of which his wife likewise is a devoted member. 

	On the 14th of October, 1896, Mr. Hanson married Miss Hulda 
Matilda Hanson, who was born in Yankton county, July 1, 1878, being a 
daughter of Nicholas and Ingeborg Hanson, and of this union have been 
born three children, whose names with respective dates of birth are here 
entered: Norman Leroy, July 19, 1897; Agnes Isabel, June 17, 1899; and 
Hannah Olivia, September 22, 1901.