King County WA Archives Biographies.....Hansen, L. W. October 29, 1885 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 15-16
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     L. W. HANSEN is accorded a place among the foremost contractors of 
Portland, where for a number of years he has been identified with large 
building operations, and has gained an enviable reputation for thoroughness 
and reliability in everything he undertakes. Mr. Hansen was born in Wisconsin 
on the 29th of October, 1885, and is a son of Nels and Carrie Hansen, the 
former now deceased and the latter still a resident of that state.

     Mr. Hansen received the advantage of a good public school education, 
graduating from high school, and his earliest employment was in connection 
with contracting and construction work, in the details of which he became 
intimately familiar. He remained in his native state until 1909, when he went 
to Seattle, Washington where he was general superintendent for the Rounds 
Clist Company, contractors, until 1921, when he came to Portland continuing 
with The Rounds Clist Company until 1923, when he organized the Hansen-Hammond 
Company and engaged in the contracting business on his own account. In 
October, 1927, this partnership was dissolved, after which he organized the 
Hansen Construction Company, of which he is the sole owner, and continued the 
contracting business. Since 1923 Mr. Hansen has constructed many of the large 
and prominent buildings in Portland, including the Pacific building the Bedel 
building, the Broadway theater, the Young Men's Christian Association 
building, the Pittock block, the Portland National Bank building, the 
Multnomah City stadium, six or more large school buildings, a part of the 
Crown Willamette Paper Company buildings at Camas, and the First National Bank 
building at Salem, and is now erecting the Meyer building and the Portland 
Fruit and Flower Mission day nursery, at Twelfth and Market streets. He is 
honest and conscientious in carrying out his contracts, taking a justifiable 
pride in the high quality of his work, and in the business circles of Portland 
commands uniform respect for the sound principles on which his business is 
based.

     In 1908 Mr. Hansen was united in marriage to Miss Blanche DeVoe, who was 
born and reared in Wisconsin, and they are the parents of three children, 
Craig, June and Jessie. Mr. Hansen's political affiliation is with the 
republican party and, though a busy man in his individual affairs, he lets 
nothing interfere with the meeting of his obligations of citizenship, 
maintaining a deep interest in matters pertaining to the welfare and 
prosperity of his city. He is a member of Willamette Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. 
M.; the Multnomah Athletic Club, the Alderwood Country Club, the City Club, 
the Progressive Business Men's Club and the Chamber of Commerce. 

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