McCallsburg Camp, No. 2999. Ever since he was granted the right of suffrage Mr. Hanson has cast his ballot for the republican party. He has always taken an active interest in local politics, having been a member of the McCallsburg council from the time the town was incorporated in 1902 until 1908, and he is now serving on the school board.
DAVID HANSON.
David Hanson, the junior member of the firm of P. C. Hanson & Son, was born in Warren township, Story county, Iowa, on the 24th of March, 1885, being a son of Peter C. and Martha (Anderson) Hanson, the father a native of Norway and the mother of Illinois. He has spent his entire life in the county of his nativity, and after completing the work in the district schools of Warren township, he entered the high school at McCallsburg, Iowa. When he left school he worked for his father until the latter's death in July, 1909, when he became the junior member of the firm, of which his brother Amos C. is the head but which continues under the original name, of P. C. Hanson & Son
.Mr. Hanson is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, his local affiliation being with McCallsburg Camp, No. 2999. Ever since he attained his majority he has voted for the candidates of the republican party and although he has never taken an active interest in local politics he is always at the polls on election day. He is one of the highly esteemed young business men of McCallsburg, where the name of Hanson is well known and has always been accorded the greatest respect.
SEVERT J. KALSEM.
The second generation of the Kalsem family in Story county is ably represented by Severt J. Kalsem, whose name is synonymous with integrity and honor. He lives upon a well improved farm in Palestine township, whose appearance indicates that its owner is wide-awake and fully capable of keeping abreast of the times. He was born in the school district in which he now lives, October 4, 1866, a son of John V. Kalsem, a record of whom appears elsewhere in this work.
Severt J. Kalsem was reared at home and acquired his preliminary education in the district schools, later attending the Iowa State Business College at Des Moines, where he gained a practical knowledge that has been of special benefit to him as a man of affairs. He continued with his father and assisted in cultivating the farm until twenty-three years of age, when he began farming on his own account, locating upon land which he had pre-