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From History of North Washington, published 1903, now in public domain. 
Submitted by Candy L. Grubb March 13, 1997. Both above notices must remain 
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HANS ANDERSON

	Hans Anderson, a successful and enterprising farmer, fruit grower 
and stock breeder, resides one mile and one-quarter southeast of Bossburg, 
Stevens county.  He was born eight miles from Christiana, Norway, December 
28, 1862.  His parents were Andrew and Olive (Wolson) Haakenson, natives of
Norway, where the father died.  The mother came to the United States and 
located in Polk county, Minnesota, where she passed away. Five children were
born to them, Ole, Edward, Oliva, deceased, Hans and Charles, deceased.  His
father served in the army and his paternal grandfather participated in the 
war between Sweden and Norway.
	Our subject received an excellent education in Norway.  He attended
the public schools until the age of fourteen, and then was taught in the
higher branches by a neighboring preacher, with whom he remained one year,
passing a good examination at the end of his study.  At the age of seventeen
years he came to the United States, where he supported his mother and the
younger children.  The lived in Minnesota and Dakota, and in 1891, our 
subject came to Stevens county, Washington, where he secured a quarter 
section of land.  He was compelled to work out until he could improve his
farm sufficiently to permit its being profitably worked.  He purchased four
horses, and for a period engaged in freighting, receiving as high as eight
dollars a day for this work.  Two years subsequently he moved on to his 
place, having purchased one hundred and forty acres more, making three
hundred acres in all, and having eighty acres under cultivation, all fenced,
with substantial buildings, and other conveniences.  He has, on an average,
twenty head of stock.
	Our subject was married in 1899 to Gertie Olson, a native of Norway,
who came to the United States with her husband.  They have three children,
Emma, Jennie and Hilda, all at home with their parents.  The political
principles of our subject are in line with those of the Republican party, 
and he is a member of Bossburg Lodge, No.164, I.O.O.F. and he and his family 
are members of the Lutheran church.
	Mr. Anderson has an orchard of six hundred trees, and specimens of
fruit raised by him have been sent to Florida for exhibition.