Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Hans D. PEDERSEN ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, August 2004 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Hans D. Pedersen is a prosperous and thrifty farmer in Winchester township, Winnebago county, Wisconsin, and a highly esteemed citizen of the community in which he lives. He was born in Denmark, October 2, 1853, and is a son of Peter Hansen and Maria Jacobsen, both natives of Denmark, where they passed their lives and died at an advanced age. The father was a farmer. Hans D. lived with his parents till his fifteenth year, then carried on farming for himself one year, after which he spent two years in Copenhagen. In 1871 he left his native land and, coming to the United States, settled in Winnebago county, Wisconsin, where he spent some ten years, being employed by various farmers during the summer months and working in the woods in winter. He was thrifty and economical in his habits and with the money saved from his earnings he in 1881 bought eighty acres of land in section 15, Winchester township, which he cultivated fifteen years with good success and profit. Selling this farm in 1896, he bought his present farm in section 14, comprising 120 acres, brought to a high state of cultivation and improved with substantial buildings and modern conveniences, here he makes his home with his family and carries on general farming and stock raising. Mr. Pedersen has never cared for public office. He finds farm life more to his liking. He is a Republican in political sentiment. He is identified with the Norwegian Lutheran Church at Winchester. In 1880 Mr. Pedersen married Miss Anna M. Larsen, who was brought from Denmark, her native land, by her parents about 1866. They settled on a farm of eighty acres in Winchester township, where the father died in 1886 at the age of 79 hears. The mother died in 1905, and the bodies of both are buried in the cemetery of the Norwegian Lutheran church at Winchester. Mr. and Mrs. Pedersen have two children, vis.: Eva, who was born June 4, 1882, is an alumnae of the Neenah High School and is now teaching in Omro township, and Alma, who was born March 4, 1886, attended the Normal School at Oshkosh and is now a teacher in that township. Transcribed from Lawson, Publius V. History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: its cities, towns, resources people. Chicago: C.F. Cooper and Company, 1908. v.2 p.1082-1083.