Hans C. Engebretson

ENGEBRETSON, PETERSON

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Date: 1/23/2010 at 06:20:53

HANS C. ENGEBRETSON

Hans C. Engebretson, a representative farmer of Logan township, Winnebago county, living on section 16, has been a lifelong resident of this county and is a representative of one of its old pioneer families. He was-born May 20, 1877, in Logan township, on school land on which his father had taken up his abode ere it was placed upon the market for sale. He is a son of Christian Engebretson, mentioned at length on another page of this work. He began his education in the pioneer schools of the county, which he attended to the age of sixteen, after which he spent one term in study in Breckenridge College at Decorah, Iowa. He afterward worked for his father until he reached the age of twenty-four years and then began farming his father's land on the shares. Two years later he rented a farm in Faribault county, Minnesota, in connection with his brother Carl and lived thereon for a year. He afterward spent two years on a farm of eighty acres on the southwest quarter of section 16, Logan township, Winnebago county, as a renter, and on the expiration of that period he purchased the property, to which he has since added various modern and attractive improvements. He is still cultivating this land, which is now one of the excellent farm properties of the county, and he also owns a third interest in the northeast quarter of section 34, Logan township. His activities are directed along lines which ultimately produce substantial results and he has already made for himself a place among the valued and enterprising farmers of Logan township.

On December 16, 1903, Mr. Engebretson was married to Miss Ella H. Peterson, her parents being Henry and Elsie Peterson, who were early settlers of Freeborn county, Minnesota, and now reside in Logan township, Winnebago county, this state. Mr. and Mrs. Engebretson have three children, Clarence Melvin, Gayler Alvin and Harold Ernest. The parents hold membership in the United Lutheran church and Mr. Engebretson exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the republican party, in the faith of which he was reared. His study of political situations and questions of the present day leads him still to the belief that the principles of this party contain the best elements of good government, and at all times he ranks with the public-spirited and progressive men of his district.

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. 249-250.