Bert G, Hanna

HANNA, CHARLSON, REVLAND

Posted By: Peter Gausmann (email)
Date: 1/16/2010 at 18:13:57

BERT G. HANNA

Bert G. Hanna, a farmer residing on section 10. Mount Valley township, is a native son of Winnebago county, having been born February 12, 1872, on the farm where he now resides. His parents, Gunder G. and Dorothy (Charlson) Hanna, were both natives of Norway and in boyhood and girlhood came to the United States with their respective parents, the families settling in Dane county, Wisconsin, where Mr. and Mrs. Hanna were reared and married. At the outbreak of the Civil war the former responded to the country's call for aid and joined the Union army, with which he served for three years, participating in a number of hotly contested engagements. It was after his return home that he was married and for five years more he continued to reside in Dane county, Wisconsin, but in the spring of 1870 removed to Iowa and purchased the farm upon which his son Bert now resides and which is still his property. His wife passed away in 1888 and the father now spends a goodly portion of his time with his son Bert.

The latter is indebted to the common school system of Winnebago county for the educational opportunities which he enjoyed. He early took up the work of the fields, devoting the summer mouths to the task of plowing, planting and harvesting, and the early experience which he received well qualified him to take over the management of the home farm at a later period. He was about nineteen years of age when he assumed this responsibility. He operated the land as a renter until about 1897, when he purchased the place, comprising one hundred and sixty acres of rich and productive land which he has brought to a high state of cultivation and from which he annually gathers good harvests. He is practical as well as progressive in all that he does and the neat and thrifty appearance of his place indicates his careful supervision and his sound judgement. Not only is he a successful farmer, but he is also well known as a reliable business man in other connections. He is a stockholder in the Farmers elevator at Joice and a stockholder in the Farmers Cooperative Creamery Company of Lake Mills and in the Lake Mills Lumber Company. In addition to tilling the soil in the production of crops best adapted to climatic conditions here, lie makes a specialty of raising Chester White hogs.

In 1894 Mr. Hanna was united in marriage to Miss Linda Revland, of Mount Valley township, and they have become parents of five children, two sons and three daughters: Leslie, Marie, Selma, Glenn and Pearl, all at home. In politics Mr. Hanna is a republican and is now serving as a member of the township board of trustees. He has also been township assessor for ten years and for several years was a member of the school board. He stands loyally for those forces which he believes to be of the greatest public benefit and his aid and cooperation can be counted upon to further any movement promulgated for the public good.

Source: History of Winnebago County and Hancock County, Iowa: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, Vol. II. Pioneer Publishing Company (Chicago), 1917. pp. 444-445.