Union Cemetery

Hansen, Peter


BORN IN: Denmark
DIED: 12/23/1889
AGED: 52
DEATH LOCATION: Woodside

OCCUPATION: Saloon Keeper

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CURRENT EVENTS:
  • 1845 Texas annexed into U.S.
  • 1846 Mexican-American War
  • 1849 California Gold Rush
  • 1850 California became the 31st State
  • 1860 The Pony Express
  • 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
  • 1861 American Civil War
  • 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
  • 1866 Ku Klux Klan
  • 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
  • 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
  • 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
  • 1876 Baseball's National League
  • 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
  • 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
From the public domain book: History of San Mateo County, California , published in 1883

Peter Hansen was born in Denmark, November 18, 1837, and at fifteen years of age embarked as a sailor, visiting nearly every part of the world. He came to San Francisco in 1862, where he abandoned the sea, coming to Redwood City in the following year. For seventeen years he has been engaged in the buying and selling of wood, disposing of his purchases in San Francisco. He is the owner of a wood and shingle yard. He married Anna Maria Blardt, and their children are Christiana, Hans, Peter, William and Ellen.


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