on all important movements in financial affairs. He gives his support to the republican party and his religious belief is indicated by membership in the Baptist church. Mrs. Spieker is a member of the Christian church. Since taking up his residence in Nevada Mr. Spieker has erected a beautiful modern residence, which is a credit to his taste and an ornament to the city. Although living here comparatively a short time, he has made many friends and has shown a capability as a business man and financier which gives brilliant promise for his future.
FRED E. HANSEN.
It is doubtful if a more promising advocate at the bar is to be found in Story county than Fred E. Hansen, whose name introduces this review. He was born at Chicago, November 14, 1873, and comes of Danish and Norwegian ancestry. The father, Thomas P. Hansen, was born in Denmark and after reaching manhood became a seaman. He established his home in the United States and for a number of years was identified with inland water traffic, being at the time of his death, in 1894, captain of the W. O. Goodman, a merchantman plying on the Great Lakes. He was energetic and thoroughly competent in his calling and attained a high reputation as a conscientious and trustworthy officer. He was a member of the Masonic order and politically gave his adherence to the republican party. He married Nathalia Werfel, who was a native of Chicago and departed this life some years before the death of her husband. Her mother was a Norwegian and her father a Dane. Her religion was that of the Baptist church. She was the mother of five children, all of whom are deceased except the subject of this review. The father was again married after the death of his first wife, but there were no children by that union.
Fred E. Hansen came to Iowa at eleven years of age and took up his home with Henry Thompson, a friend of the family, living near Roland. Here he grew to manhood and continued for sixteen years. He received his preliminary education in the public schools graduating from the Roland high school in 1893. After spending two years as a student in the State Agricultural College at Ames, he began teaching in which he continued for five years, serving for two years of that time as principal of the Roland high school. His ability as a teacher received general recognition in the county and in 1900 he was elected county superintendent of schools, being reelected in 1902. Upon retiring from this position he went upon the road as a traveling salesman, in the meantime preparing for admission to the bar by taking the prescribed course of the Sprague Correspondence School of Law. He also studied law in the office of Fitchpatrick & McCall, of Nevada, and in the fall of 1906 was duly admitted to the bar. He has been