BIOGRAPHIES: HANS R. HANSON, Town of Elk Mound, Dunn Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Laura Abood <wabood@msn.com> 3/19/2006
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HANS R. HANSON, a well known and respected farmer of Section
12, town of Elk Mound, where he has resided for many years,
was born in Barrum, Norway, Jan.11, 1855, son of Hans
Christopher and Ellen Marit Jenson.  The parents died in
Norway, which was their native land.  Hans R. was educated
in the public schools of his native land and remained there
until 1882 when he came to America, and to Dunn County,
Wisconsin, locating in the town of Elk Mound.  For a few
years he was employed in lumber camps in this vicinity and
for a while worked in a lumber mill at Eau Claire.  It was
in 1896 that Mr. Hanson began farming, buying 80 acres of
land in Section 12, town of Elk Mound, the tract being
mostly wild, though a few acres had been broken and there
was a log house and stable on it.  With that for a beginning
Mr. Hanson set out to develop the property, and his efforts
after years of hard work have resulted in the present
Springdale Farm, of which he is proprietor, a fine rural
estate pleasantly situated in a sheltered spot among the
hills of this region.  Mr. Hanson's present residence has
for its main part his old log cabin, which has been sided
and added to by a frame structure so as to make of the whole
building what is practically a frame house, substantial,
comfortable and of neat and attractive appearance.  Mr.
Hanson has also a fine large cattle barn of 30 x 40 feet,
and a group of well constructed out-buildings, including a
wagon shed, hen house, hog house, garage, a cement block
silo of 12 x 30 feet, built in the spring of 1923 and a
cement-block milk house of 12 x 12 feet.  He has a 50-foot
driven well on his farm whence he derives an adequate supply
of good water.  Mr. Hanson was married in Norway, June 26,
1882, to Karen Sorenson, who was born at Barrum, Norway,
Nov. 22, 1859.  Mr. and Mrs. Hanson have three children:
Anna H., born Jan. 23, 1884, is unmarried and a resident of
Chippewa Falls; Martin, born Nov. 27, 1888, and now a farmer
in the town of Elk Mound, married Matilda Benson and they
have one child, Raymond; Harold F., born June 16, 1891, who
is assisting his father on the home farm, is yet unmarried. 
The religious affiliations of the Hanson family are with the
Lutheran Church.