HANS R. HANSEN.
Among the native-born Danish farmers, meaning the younger farmers, of Oakfield township, who were born in Schleswig, Hans R. Hansen has made commendable progress since coming to America with his parents, and is now the owner of one hundred and twenty acres of land in Oakfield township. He was born on April 15, 1880, in Germany, and is the son of Mathias and Anna Marie (Christensen) Hansen, who came to America to seek their fortune in the new world. After coming to America they located in section 9, in Oakfield township, Audubon county, Iowa, and here purchased seventy-nine acres of land, which Mr. Hansen farmed for one year, or until his untimely death. Mathias Hansen was killed by a horse, about a year after coming to this country. He left at the time of his death a widow and three children, Jesse (deceased), Walter, and Hans, the subject of this sketch. After his untimely death, the mother married Nels Petersen, and they had two children. Mathias Hansen was killed, November 11, 1880. Mrs. Nels Petersen died, January 14, 1914.
An infant when brought to America by his parents, Hans R. Hansen was educated in the schools of this country. He attended the public schools of Oakfield township and received a good common school education, which has been very helpful to him in his career as a farmer. After finishing school he worked on the home place for four years, and then did farm work on various farms for another four years. At the end of this time he rented a farm for two years, and was then married and moved to the farm upon which he is now living, and where he has invested five thousand dollars in various kinds of improvements. Mr. Hansen has found mixed farming to be most profitable, and raises forty-five acres of corn, thirty acres of small grain, and feeds out about sixty head of hogs every year.
On April 20, 1904, when he was twenty-four years of age, Hans R. Hansen was married to Anna Hoegh, daughter of Niels P. Hoegh, whose wife was Catherine Knoss, the daughter of Christian Knoss. Niels P. Hoegh is one of the most prominent farmers and bankers of Audubon county, who, since coming to Audubon county, about 1875, has acquired a substantial interest in two of the leading banks of the county, a large lumber company, and who owns two thousands acres of land in Audubon and Cass counties. Anna Hoegh was one of eight children born to her parents. The others are George (deceased), William, Walter, Catherine, Benjamin, Edward and Arthur.
To Mr. and Mrs. Hans R. Hansen have been born four children, as follow: Edwin, Dagmar, Wilbert and Gladys. All of these children are living at home with their parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Hans R. Hansen are members of the Danish Lutheran church. Mr. Hansen is a Republican.
Hans R. Hansen is not only an enterprising farmer, but he is a good manager and a successful business man, who, with a start which he has already won, is certain to achieve newer and greater things in life. The people of Oakfield township, who are well acquainted with him, all like Hans R. Hansen, and everybody is interested in his success. Aggressive and straightforward in dealings with his fellows, he well merits the confidence which he so universally enjoys.
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Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, September, 2019 from History of Audubon County, Iowa Its People, Industries and Institutions With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, by H. F. Andrews, editor, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1915, pp. 630-631.
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