George H. Haner Biography


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	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 802-803

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GEORGE H. HANER is a representative of Hanson township, Hanson county, 
his farm being situated in section 23. He owns and operates only a 
quarter section of land, but his farm is in a high state of cultivation 
and a good crop each year is the recompense of careful and systematic 
tillage, and its owner is regarded as one of the well-to-do and 
influential members of the community. 

Mr. Haner is of German extraction. His father, Jonas Haner, was a 
blacksmith by trade, and the most of his life was spent in his shop 
near the Erie canal, and died in the state of Michigan in 1872. The 
mother, Nancy (Keller) Haner, is of English and German extraction, and 
was also born in the state of New York. They were the parents of a 
family of three children, of whom the subject of our sketch is the 
youngest. He was born in Washtenaw county, Michigan, July 26, 1846, and 
soon after his birth the family moved to Saint Joseph county, Michigan, 
where the [ether spent the remaining years of his life. 

After the death of the father the children and the mother conducted the 
farm until the year 1878, when our subject sold the Michigan property 
and moved to Iowa. In the fall of that year he went to Dakota, but 
spent the following winter, and also the winter of 1879-80, in Mitchell 
county, Iowa, and the summers on the farm he now occupies. In the 
spring of 1 880 he moved to Dakota with his wife, just in season to 
experience the "hard winter," although they passed through no actual 
suffering. The main part of their house was already erected, and as a 
brother-in-law was stopping with them, and each man drew his share of 
the provisions and fuel, they had a plenty for a family of three. 
During these early days Mr. Haner became possessed of three quarter-
sections of land, but he subsequently disposed of two of them, as he 
had an opportunity to do so profitably, and has limited his farm to one 
quarter-section. Upon this tract is growing a five-acre grove of soft 
maple trees, while the residence, outbuildings and fences are such as 
go to make up a first-class estate. In political matters, Mr. Haner 
uses his elective franchise in the support of the candidates of the 
Populist party, and advocates that the government should control the 
manufacture and sale of liquors. In the year 1884, he was appointed 
county commissioner for eighteen months to finish an unexpired term. 

In 1875, Mr. Haner was united in marriage to Miss Julia E. Selder, a 
native of the Empire state, and three children, Ollie, Leroy and Lulu 
M., all of whom were born in Dakota, now bless their home