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456. HANSON, JOHN K. BOOK, 1983. 1 item. P 1216.
“The Winnebago Story, 1958-1983,” a 155-page account of the growth of a recreational
vehicle manufacturing company located in Forest City, Iowa. Hanson was a
member of the Forest City Development Commission which brought the travel
trailer company to the community and made it into a flourishing enterprise.
A Hanson family history is filed under P 539, and a published family history by
Robert L. Lillestrand and Barbara Hanson Bulman is in the NAHA books collection.
457. HANSON, MARTIN GUSTAV (1859-1915). PAPERS, 1880-1915. 36 items. P 133.
Papers of a Lutheran clergyman: correspondence, reports, letters of call, ordination
papers, and the first diploma issued by Red Wing Seminary Department of
Theology. The correspondence deals with such topics as Red Wing Seminary and
the union movement among Norwegian Lutheran synods. Hanson was president of
Red Wing Seminary and also of the Hauge Synod.
458. HANSON, OLE. PAPERS, 1854-1872. 5 items. P 1047.
Certificates of bounty land grants and of land purchases in Dane County,
Wisconsin made by Hans Hanson, and a citizenship statement issued to Ole
Hanson in 1872.
459. HANSON, PEDER H. LETTER, 1879. 1 item. P 134.
Letter written by Hanson at New Richmond, Wisconsin, about jobs.
460. HANSON, RASMUS (ca. 1843-1916). CLIPPING, 1864-1900. P 135.
Article from Bergens Tidende, October 1, 1960, containing a story about a collection
of America letters written by a Decorah, Iowa, farmer and some excerpts from a few
of these letters. There are references to the Civil War, American marriage laws,
school, farming, and the church.
461. HANSON, RICHARD D. (b. 1934). DISSERTATION, 1970. 311 typescript pages. P
607.
“An Analysis of Selected Choral Works of F. Melius Christiansen,” for the degree
Doctor of Education in Music Education at the University of Illinois.
462. HANSON, THOMAS L. (1871- ). PAPERS, 1866-1939. 2 boxes. P 1107.
Thomas Hanson was a son of Østen Hanson (1836-1898) who was the president of
the Hauge Synod from 1887 to 1903, and who edited that synod’s organ, Budbæreren,
from 1868 to 1876. He served a parish at Asplund, Goodhue County, Minnesota,
from 1861 until his death.
The family records include documents related to his father; to his mother, Anne
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