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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 136 Hans married Mary New Ericksen. In March they reached Orleans, and continued their journey up the river, camped near Kansas City, where the mother Here Lauritz, then 10 years old, joined a camp of freighters hauling- goods to Fort Defiance, N. M., and Hans heard nothing of him for seventeen years. He is now an ex-Judge in Manassa, Colo. October 4, 1854, Hans arrived in Salt Lake and reached Manti the same year, where he has since been engaged in farming and woolgrowing. About twenty years he was also engaged in selling farm implements and is a director in the Manti and finally died. He has been a member of the City Council several Seven years he was bishop's counsellor, and the last twenty years he has been bishop of the South ward of Manti. In 1SG5 he went on a mission to Denmark and was gone three and one-half years. In 1878 he was sent by the church to help locate Manassa and Sanford in Colorado. He took his two children, Mary and Marinus. In returning he had to pass through a hostile Indian country, and as the Ouray war was then in progress, he had several narrow escapes, but through coolness and courage he escaped injury. Second wife, Maria Rasmussen, has six children, Christian K., Elvina, Maty A., Louis, Erastus and Catherine, deceased. Third wife, Maria C. Jorgensen, has eleven children, Mary L., Hans P., Marinas, deceased, Stency, Sophronia, Margaret, Hilda, Linda, Caroline, Gertrude and May, deceased. The bishop is a prominent citizen and well liked by his people. Co-op. years. OLE, woolgrower, son of Canute and Bodel, was born in Denmark, September 18, 1849, and came to Utah with his parents, in 1SG2, stopping at Provo, and finally locating in Gunnison. He took part in the Indian wars and at the age of 18 removed to Scipio, where his parents died in 1874. In 1879 he was called as a missionary to Apache county, Arizona, where he assisted in building the town of St. John. He was one of the stockholders of the Co-op store in that town and a clerk for three or four years, then engaged in the furniture business, which he sold in 1SS7 and removed to this city. He labored for four Years in the JENSEN, |
