Hanscom, Alfred U.

HANSCOM, OLIVER, ADAMS

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 9/25/2007 at 00:45:53

Source: History of Monona County, Iowa 1890
Pub: Chicago National Com

Alfred U. Hanscom, deceased, one of the early pioneers who so materially assisted in the development of Monona County, made his first appearance here in the spring of 1856. After looking the country over, he returned to his home in Kane County, Illinois and gave so good an account of it, that he induced several from that section to emigrate to this point. He came back to Monona County in the summer of 1857, in company with his father-in-law and brother-in-law, G.W. and F.G and for a short time located at Ashton. In September of the same year he removed to the new town of Onawa, then just laid out and there he worked at the carpenter’s trade on some of the earliest building of that embryo city. A few years later he removed to Lake Township, where he had purchased a farm and built a house and there resided until 1865. In the latter year he settled on section 25, Franklin Township, but in 1877 removed to Sioux Township, where he died, May 29, 1887. He was a native of the State of New Hampshire, where he was educated and grew to manhood and in early life emigrated to Illinois and settled in Kane County. He was there united in marriage with Miss Mary P. Oliver, the daughter of George W. and Hannah R (Adams) Oliver, who was born September 4, 1833, and who is now living in Sioux Township. By this union was born a family of nine children.