Mendocino County Biographies

Austaf Hansen

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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Was born in Denmark, September 11, 1822, and attended school till 
he was fourteen years of age. He was then apprenticed to the cabinet-maker�s 
trade, which he followed for ten years. He then began farming which he followed 
till 1868, when he came to California, and settled in Comptche, Mendocino 
county. He followed farming until June, 1880, when he took possession of the 
Half-way House on the road from Ukiah to Mendocino City. He was married April 
28, 1823. They have one living child, Ida, born July 10, 1852, and one child 
deceased.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 542