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 HISTOEY OF GOODHUE COIYI'Y 691 with some other property. Mr. Hanson is a Republican in poli- ties, and belongs to the Scandinavian Relief Association and the Scandinavian Benefit Association, in which latter he has been president for the past two years. The family worships at the Swedish Lutheran Church. Mr. Hanson was married April 8, 1883, to Magdeline Anderson, a daughter of Christian and Pet- tronelle (Darlow) Anderson, the former of whom was in the tailoring and clothing business in Norway until his death in 1881. The mother died in the same country in 1898. Mrs. Han- son has three sisters. Two live in Norway and one is wife of the Rev. Wald, in Taeoma, Wash. She also has two brothers, Christ Anderson, who is in the building and constructing business in Chicago, and John Dahr, a Chicago printer. To Mr. and Mrs. Hanson have been born six children. Gustaf. born January 11, 1884, works with his father in the store. Harold is a clerk at the store of Adler, Schacht & Co. He was born July 12, 1885. Ar- thur W., born October 28, 1887, is in the store with his father. Alice Francis was born February 12, 1890; Aurelia Agnes De- cember 22, 1894, and Harriet Hermenia Gertrude October 7, 1897. All the children live at home. Samuel H. Haynes, now retired, has for a long period of years been identified with the banking and business interests of Red Wing, and has also served with credit in several public offices. He is of eastern birth, having first seen the light of day at Speedsville, Broome county, New York. December 29, 1849. His father, William Haynes, was in the mercantile business in New York state at the time his son was born. Later, having been ruined in business through the dishonesty of a clerk, William Haynes started west to seek his fortune and engaged for a year as a bridge carpenter with the C. B. & Q. railroad, then building from Chicago to Burlington. Subsequently he brought his fam- ily to Knox county, Illinois. After selling lumber for a Chicago firm as their agent at Altona, 111., he came to Minnesota in the fall of 1858. The trip to this state was made overland with a team of horses, the journey requiring about a month. Many in- teresting experiences fell to the lot of the traveler in that long journey, which in after life he often related to his son and friends. Reaching Red Wing, he decided that this city, then only a small village in the first decade of its settlement, was an ad- mirable place for a home, and accordingly after getting settled himself, he moved his family here in the spring of 1859. For seven years he cultivated a farm, and then located in the city of Red Wing. He owned about 400 acres of land, considerable of that amount being land in Wisconsin which he cleared himself. He died in March, 1905. and his wife died in 1891. Samuel H. attended the public schools of Red Wing, and also