Olmsted County MINNESOTA Biographies.....Hans Peter Hansen July 8 1875 - 
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File contributed for Minnesota Biographies Project by:
Mike Oiseth MOISETH@mn.rr.com March 10, 2005, 9:22 am

Author: Joseph Leonard, History of Olmsted County, Minnesota

HANS PETER HANSEN was born July 8, 1875, in Rock Dell township,
Minnesota. His birthplace was very humble, a little stone house sixteen
feet square, dug in the side of a hill, and here he spent the first five
years of his life, playing on the banks of Zumbro river and ever a
constant companion to his mother, who was a great deal alone, his father
being away to work. In 1880 he moved with his parents to their new home
mentioned herein in his father's history. He was educated in the common
schools of Olmsted county, and at the age of fourteen years was
confirmed in St. Olaf's Church by Rev. A. J. Thorson, of which church he
became a member, but later joined the United Lutheran church, with which
he is still affiliated. He was always a good, obedient boy and as a
young man never left his father, but stayed and helped him, until he saw
fit to take unto himself a bride, and on the 18th day of May, 1899,
married Miss Johanna Jensine Holm, whose parents also were pioneers of
Rock Dell township. The happy couple took tip the responsibility of
farming, renting his father's farm. To this union the following children
were born: Johney Arthur, born April 18, 1900; Elvin Victor, born
December 17, 1901 ; and Jehart Miller, born October 31, 1903. In March,
19o8, Mr. Hansen purchased the farm of his father, and is now the owner
of 197 acres of land, located in sections 1 and 12, Rock Dell township.,
He is one of the leading farmers of this portion of the county and has
an abundance of good nature, and it is a pleasure to meet him and his
excellent wife in their cosy home and enjoy their rare hospitality.

Additional Comments:
Joseph Leonard, History of Olmsted County, Minnesota: together with sketches of many
of its pioneers, 
citizens, families, and institutions. Chicago: Goodspeed Historical Association,
1910.

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