Hanson, Thor O.

HANSON

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Date: 2/2/2003 at 17:02:13

Thor O. Hanson was born in Dane county, Wisconsin, June 15, 1859; he died at his home near Bode, Iowa, February 18, 1915. He removed with his parents to Emmet county, Iowa in 1869. His early education was received in the rural
schools and in 1878 he engaged in teaching in Emmet, Kossuth and Humboldt counties for about ten years. From 1886 to 1892 he was in the general mercantile and real estate business and after that time was connected with the state bank of Bode. He was the first mayor of Bode and a member of the school board for fourteen years. He served as representative from Humboldt county in the Thirty-second, Thirty-second Extra and Thirty-third General Assemblies.