California Biographies
Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
 
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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Source:
History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
With Biographical Sketches
History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry
Illustrated, Complete In One Volume
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914


JOHN EDWARD HANSON.� For more than thirty-eight years John 
Edward Hanson has been a resident of the vicinity of Caspar, Mendocino 
county, and has aided materially in the development of the natural resources 
of the county. He was born in Uddevalla Bohuslau, Sweden, July 27, 1853, 
growing up on his parents' farm and receiving a good education in the local 
schools. In 1873 he came to Boston, Mass,, where he was employed on the 
farms near that city until 1876, when he came to Caspar, Mendocino county, 
where a brother, Andrew, had' preceded him two years. Having nothing to 
start with, he availed himself of the opportunity of working for the Caspar 
Lumber Co., continuing steadily with them until 1888, when he purchased his 
present ranch of one hundred and seventy-five acres adjoining Caspar on the 
south, extending along the Pacific ocean. He has worked diligently and has 
brought it to a high state of cultivation and is raising large crops of hay, 
potatoes and vegetables for the market, while he is also engaged in general 
stock raising. 

In Caspar Mr. Hanson was united in marriage with Miss Emma C. Olson, 
who was also a native of Sweden, and they have four children living. The 
oldest and youngest, Arthur Herbert, and Oscar Edwin, make the ranch their 
home, while Walter Unor is engaged in the butcher business at Ferndale 
and Hilma Torinda, Mrs. Below, resides in Caspar. Mr. Hanson is an active 
member of the Odd Fellows Lodge in Mendocino, is a very consistent member 
of the Presbyterian Church in the same place and politically espouses the prin- 
ciples of the Republican party.