Hanson, Bert, 1901 - 1989. Papers, 1972 - 1979

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SMHC Collection 1241

Staff Only

Abstract

This collection consists of items relating to Bert Hanson, of Vernon Center, Minnesota. The compilation contains an audiocassette tape, a CD duplicate of the audiocassette, and transcript of an oral history interview conducted with Hanson on May 7, 1976. In addition, there is a typescript of reminiscences written by Hanson. This work discusses the changes made in farming in the sixty-year period he was involved in it. Also included in the collection are photocopies of Hanson's newspaper column, which was published in The Land. The collection also includes a newspaper clipping of a photograph of Hanson and his wife, and a negative photographic copy of a 1972 newspaper article about Hanson.

Dates

1972-1979

Biographical / Historical

Bert Hanson was born on August 13, 1901 in Donovan, Illinois. He moved to Minnesota in 1910, where his family settled on a farm six miles northwest of Mankato, near the town of Kem, in Nicollet County. He married Esther Irene Anderson of Diles, Iowa, on June 2, 1925. They had five children together. Hanson's family has farmed in its present location since 1932. Shadybrook Farm is a few miles north of Vernon Center on Highway 169, and was the site of Farmfest 1972. Bert Hanson died in 1989.

Biographical information obtained from Bert Hanson.