Background
HANSON, Oscar Johan was born on June 19, 1882 in Griggs Company, N. Dakota. Son of Peter Johan and Christine Nilsine (Olson) Hanson.
HANSON, Oscar Johan was born on June 19, 1882 in Griggs Company, N. Dakota. Son of Peter Johan and Christine Nilsine (Olson) Hanson.
Common School; High School. Normal School; part College. Hohenschuh-Carpenter College, of Embalming, Des Moines, Iowa.
Commercial College, M. Accts.
Taught Public Schools, Crookston Normal and Business. College, Crookston, Minnesota, 1900-1905. President, Queen City Business.
College, Crookston, Minnesota, 1905-1907. President, Aakers Business. College, Grand Forks, N. Dakota, 1907-1915.
Secretary, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, 1915-1916. President, Aakers Business. College, Fargo, N. Dakota, 1916-1918.
Pres, and owner, Fargo School of Business., 1918-1922. Established Hanson Funeral Home, Fargo, N. Dakota, and Hanson-Anderson Mortuary, Grand Forks, N. Dakota, 1922-1923. Secretary Commercial Education section of N. Dakota Education Association, 1918-1919, President, 1919-1920.
Elected County Coroner, Cass Company, N. Dakota, since 1926. Taught Embalming, Hohenschuh-Carpenter College, of Embalming, Summer Sessions, 1925-1927. Holds embalmer’s licenses for Iowa, Minnesota, N. Dakota and Montana.
First Lutheran Church.
Member: Young People’s Luther League of Norwegian Lutheran Church of American (for N. Dakota, President, 1924-1926). Modern Woodmen of America. Artist Fellowship & Master of Arts.
R.N.A.; Women's Christian Temperance Union. Sons of Norway; Ancient Order of United Workmen. North Star Benefit Association.
Scandinavian-American Fraternity. The Gideons; Chamber of Commerce. National. Funeral Directors Association.
Minnesota Funeral Directors Association. N. Dakota Funeral Directors Association Club.: Cosmopolitan Service. Reserve 1426 9 St.
Spouse Marie Paulsberg, September 26, 1903, Crookston, Minnesota.