BIOGRAPHIES: Anders HANSON, Elk Mound Township, Dunn Co., WI ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Submitted by: Laura Abood 16 March 2004 ************************************************************************ ANDERS HANSON, an early settler in the town of Elk Mound, who passed away not long ago, was born in Norway, Nov. 19, 1845. It was in the year 1867 that he came to the United States and to Dunn County, Wisconsin, settling in the town of Elk Mound and taking a homestead of 40 acres in Section 14. This he proved up clearing and breaking the land, and after he had got it into a pretty fair state of development, he bought 40 acres adjoining, and in time he had a good 80-acre farm. He was married Dec. 22, 1873, to Mrs. Anna Sorenson, widow of Engebreth Sorenson, at which time he took charge of the farm left to her by her first husband in Section 14, which he conducted until 1893. He and his wife then moved to his own farm, where they lived many years, she dying there on Nov. 10, 1919, at the venerable age of 92 years, having been born on Nov. 5, 1827. He survived her several years, dying Jan. 25, 1922. There was one child of their marriage, Emma, now Mrs. Louis S. Larson, who is the owner of the farm in Section 14, on which she and her husband reside. It is worthy of repetition here, though elsewhere told in this volume, that when Mrs. Anders Hanson, then Mrs. Engebreth Sorenson, came in 1859 from Minnesota to Dunn County, Wisconsin, and the town of Elk Mound, she walked all the way driving a cow and calf before her and carrying a nine months old baby in her arms. Such were the tasks which sometimes had to be undertaken by pioneer women, and, as a rule, like the men, they were found equal to them. -Transcribed from the "History of Dunn County Wisconsin, 1925," pages 614-615 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm