John F. Hanson papers, 1888-1966

John F. Hanson papers, 1888-1966

P1138

1888-1966

Notes on Life History, an autobiographical sketch (29 p., typescript) of an immigrant from Stavanger whose life was largely spent in the Quaker ministry. A partial autobiography (through 1910) kept by Estella Hanson Watland (1872-1950), whose entries expand upon her father's story at several points and also give a graphic description of her childhood, youth, and married life in Iowa, South Dakota, and Oregon. Hanson's book "Light and Shade from the Land of the Midnight Sun" (1903) is in the NAHA books collection. Emigrated with parents to Iowa (1856), to South Dakota (1879), to Portland, Oregon (1904)

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• "Notes on Life History," (ca. 1903) an autobiographical sketch (29 p., typescript) of an immigrant from Stavanger whose life was largely spent in the Quaker ministry. Includes topics such as: Civil War and Quaker response; notes concerning Iowa yearly meetings (1865-1889) and movement to manage Indian [Native American] affairs under the Pres. Grant's Indian policy; "Recollections of the temperance agitation"; "Prohibition in South Dakota"; "Experience with the American Indians" mentions Wounded Knee Creek incident.
• Estella Hanson Watland. A partial autobiography (photocopied, through 1910) kept by Estella Hanson Watland (1872-1950), whose entries expand upon her father's story at several points and also give a graphic description of her childhood, youth, and married life in Iowa, South Dakota, and Oregon; includes obits for Henry Watland (1966) & Estella Watland (1950). Topics covered: "Prairie Fires in South Dakota" (1885); "A cow-pony named Bill"; "The Great Blizzard [Children's Blizzard] of 1888"; "Father helped the Indians [Native Americans] of Pine Ridge Reservation [South Dakota]"; temperance movement in South Dakota; Penn College, Iowa (1893); "Christmas Memories in South Dakota,"

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