F. J. Hansen Biography


	This biography appears on pages 666 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
	OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net.

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				F. J. HANSEN. 

	F. J. Hansen, founder of the Dakota Produce Company of Aberdeen, 
was born and educated in Denmark. He came to the United States in 1903 
and settled in Nebraska, whence he removed to San Francisco, 
California. With that city as his headquarters he traveled in the 
interests of a produce concern for a number of years. In 1910 be came 
to Aberdeen and commenced business under the firm name of The Dakota 
Produce Company. Two years later he incorporated the Dakota Produce 
Company and bought the M. E. Gibson Creamery and has since given his 
entire time to the affairs of this concern. The company operates a 
creamery with a capacity of one and a half million pounds of butter a 
year. It owns a cold storage plant with a capacity of fifteen ears of 
eggs and an equal amount of butter and a freezing plant which is one of 
the largest of its kind in the state, and it does a large business in 
butter, eggs, poultry and fee cream. The growth of the business has 
necessitated larger quarters and the company will in the near future 
move into its new plant, which is modern, sanitary, and complete in 
every particular. 

	Mr. Hansen is a member of the Masonic lodge, chapter, commandery 
and Shrine and is affiliated also with the Benevolent Protective Order 
of Elks