Sevier-Salt Lake County UT Archives Biographies.....Hansen, Anders Krough 1870 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

ANDERS KROUGH HANSEN.

    With various lines of activity having to do with the public affairs and
moral development of Richfield, Anders Krough Hansen has been closely
associated. He was born in Draper, Utah, in December, 1870, a son of A. K. and
Aurelia (Quistgaard) Hansen, who were natives of Denmark. The father came to
Utah in 1863, first settling in Salt Lake.

    His son and namesake was educated in the Sevier Stake schools and in the
Brigham Young University at Provo. Taking up his abode at Glenwood, Sevier
county, he engaged in farming and sheep raising from 1883 until 1903, or for a
period of two decades, after which he removed to Richfield. During the twenty
years of his connection with Glenwood he was prominent in the public life of the
community, serving as mayor of the city, and since taking up his abode in
Richfield he has for many terms been a member of the city council and in office
has put forth every possible effort to promote the public welfare. In county
affairs he has also been active and has at different times served in county
offices, including that of assessor, to which position he was twice called by
popular suffrage. In 1918 he was elected county commissioner and is occupying
that office at the present time.

    In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Mr. Hansen has also been
a consistent worker. He has filled the position of ward teacher and has passed
on through the priesthood to bishop's counselor. He was prominent in the
building of the Second Ward church and has occupied the position of ward
president. Along still other lines, too, he has been active for the benefit and
upbuilding of the section of the state in which he makes his home. For seven
years he was the president of the Sevier County Fair Association and under his
guidance its annual fairs became known as among the best in the state. No
enterprise that means progress, whether of a public or private nature, ever
seeks his aid in vain.

    Mr. Hansen's place in business circles, too, is a prominent and enviable
one, for he is now a director of the bank of James M. Peterson, a director of
the Model Mercantile Company of Richfield and of the Jumbo Plaster & Cement
Works, one of the largest industries of Sevier county. He likewise operates a
farm of a thousand acres, upon which he raises general crops, but a part of it
is grazing land and he devotes much time and space to the raising of graded
sheep. Whatever he undertakes he carries forward to successful completion; for
he is a man of determined spirit, in whose vocabulary there is no such word as
fail.

    On October 13, 1897, Mr. Hansen was married to Miss Amelia Louise Heppler,
of Richfield, the wedding being celebrated in Manti Temple. The Heppler family
occupies a prominent position in connection with the history of southern Utah.
The father, Andrew Heppler, was for many years probate judge at Sevier, while W.
S. Steegmilier, an uncle of Mrs. Hansen, was for a quarter of a century
president of Sevier stake. He also many times represented his county in the
state legislature and presided over that body as speaker. Mr. and Mrs. Hansen
have six living children, namely: Arendell Kelsch, Leland Anders, Lina, Alta,
Phil and Floy. One child, Velva, died at the age of eighteen months.

    In social circles the family occupies an enviable position and Mr. Hansen
has long been recognized as a most forceful and resourceful man whose labors
have been a potent factor in the development of city and county along material,
Intellectual, social, political and moral lines.


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UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME IV
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920


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