he returned to Chicago and continued to reside there until 1877 and in the fall of that year he came to Story county, Iowa, and engaged in farming. He followed this for nine years and in 1886 he removed to Washington territory, but at the end of one and one-half years residence in the latter place once more located in Story county and resumed farming. In 1896 he embarked in the grain and lumber business in McCallsburg, in which line he continued up to the time of his death in July, 1909. His wife was a native of La Salle county, Illinois, and a daughter of Erner Anderson, who was a native of Norway and emigrated to New York state when a young man. After living there for a time he went to Chicago, Illinois, making the journey on foot, and from Chicago, he went to La Salle county, Illinois, where he entered a tract of government land, upon which he was living at the time of his death in 1900, at the age of eighty-one years. He married Miss Margaret Gunderson, also a native of Norway, and they became the parents of ten children, Mrs. Hanson being the second in order of birth.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Hanson were the parents of the following children : Amos C.; Milton C.; David, deceased ; Carrie, deceased ; Carrie, who married Howard Billings; David; Minnie; and Frank. The father held membership in the Masonic fraternity and voted the republican ticket. He was a very public-spirited man and was held in high esteem in the community where he lived, being ,elected to many of the minor offices in Warren township and during his residence in McCallsburg being a member of the city council. He was a most capable and successful business man and succeeded in acquiring five hundred and twenty acres of land, as well as other property, at the time of his death.
Amos C. Hanson spent his early years in the unvaried routine of study, work and play, and only at rare intervals did anything occur of sufficient interest to relieve the monotony. When he had completed the course in the district schools of Story county he matriculated at Ellsworth College, Iowa Falls, Iowa, where he pursued a more advanced course, thus obtaining a better education than is acquired by the average young man living in the country. On reaching his majority he followed farming for one year but on the 2d of January, 1892, he went to McCallsburg to work for his father, who was at that time engaged in the grain and lumber business. At the end of four years he was admitted to partnership, the firm thereafter being P. C. Hanson & Son, and upon the death of his father three years later he became senior member of the company, the business continuing under the same name, however.
Mr. Hanson established a home for himself by his marriage to Miss Louisa Lura, a daughter of K. O. Lura, of Hardin county, Iowa, and they have become the parents of the following children : Mabel, Clarence, Peter Lloyd, Beatrice M. and Albert Lawrence.
Mr. Hanson's fraternal relations are confined to membership in the Modern Woodmen of America and he is at present acting as clerk of the