Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Torger HANSON

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From the Adams County Press, May 14, 1892, Page 6 Column 3

Torger HANSON, of this town, residing just east of this village, died at
his home on Tuesday morning, May 3rd, from heart failure.

Mr. HANSON was born in the kingdom of Norway February 22, 1818, and came to
America in the summer of 1853 and first located in Milwaukee, in this
State, where he remained for a year. From that city, in September, 1854, he
came to Adams county, and settled in the town of Strongs Prairie, and
there, winning for himself and his family a comfortable home and competency
for life, he lived, respected by all who knew him, for his industry, frank
good sense, and unswerving dignity of character. In that community the name
of Torger HANSON became the synonym for sturdy independence and honesty.

Early in October last, his desire to be near one of his children led him
and his wife to remove here and make their residence a few rods east of the
residence of their daughter, Mrs. C. M. SIMONS, and there, surrounded by
the tender solicitude of loving hearts, he spent the few remaining months
of his life.

Mr. HANSON was the father of nine children, only three of whom survive him.
These are H. P. HANSON of Elbow Lake, Minn., Mrs. O. BENSON of Minneapolis,
Minn., and Mrs. C. M. SIMONS of this place. He also leaves a widow, a most
estimable and worthy lady, in comfortable circumstances.