Hansen, Lorenz J.

HANSEN, LUCKSTED, MENGLER, GREVE

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Date: 2/14/2003 at 21:03:34

Source: "The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated" published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.

LORENZ J. HANSEN

Lorenz J. Hansen, treasurer and secretary of Greve, Hansen & Company, was born in Charlotte, Clinton County, April 14, 1878, and is a son of Hans l. and Maria (Lucksted) Hansen. The father was a native of Germany and was seventeen years of age when he emigrated to America and took up his residence in Charlotte, Iowa, where he married Maria Lucksted, who was born in that place. Her father, John Lucksted, now deceased, was one of the early settlers of that section and a prominent farmer. Our subject’s paternal grandparents also came to this county and made their home in Charlotte. The father is still a resident of that place. Throughout his active business life he has followed farming with excellent success, and has added to his landed possessions from time to time until he now has four hundred acres of very valuable and productive land. He is one of the prominent and prosperous farmers of the county, and is a man of influence in his community. His children are Lorenz J., our subject; Johanna, wife of Fred Mengler, of Green Island, Iowa; August; Josephine; Laura; Anna; Fred; George; Bryan; and Marcella.

The subject of this sketch grew to manhood upon his father’s farm and aided in its operation until 1897, his education being acquired in the district schools near his home and the public schools of Charlotte, where he was graduated in 1896. He then took a course in bookkeeping and shorthand at the Clinton Business College, and was graduated at that institution August 4, 1898. On leaving school he accepted a position in a law office in Clinton, where he was employed as stenographer, and later engaged in the publishing of music in partnership with Prof. F. F. Blocker, of Clinton, under the firm name of the Kenilworth Music Publishing company, for six months. He next secured a position with H. A. Gabriel, a wholesale lumber merchant, with whom he remained nine months, and since then has been engaged in his present business, a description of which is given in the sketch of Hans Greve, just preceding this.

On the 6th of June, 1900, Mr. Hansen was united in marriage with Miss Martha M. Greve, a daughter of Hans Greve, president of the company. Our subject is a member of Walhalla Lodge, No. 150, I. O. O. F., and Clinton Encampment, No. 196. He is quite a popular young business man, very wide-awake and energetic, and undoubtedly will make a success in life.