The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 1097 

CHRISTIAN H. HANSON.

Christian H. Hanson has been actively identified with business interests in
Toppenish since October, 1916, as proprietor of the Standard Sanitary Grocery
and has won a large trade in this connection. His birth occurred in Douglas
county, Minnesota, on the 4th of November, 1886, his parents being Peter and
Karen Hanson, who emigrated from Denmark to the United States in young manhood
and young womanhood. They first took up their abode in Illinois and later
removed to Minnesota, where the father was successfully engaged in general
agricultural pursuits until 1915. He is now living retired, enjoying the fruits
of his former toil in well earned rest. 

Christian H. Hanson acquired his education in the public schools of his native
state and assisted his father in the work of the home farm until eighteen years
of age. He then spent a year as a hotel employee and at the age of twenty
secured a position in a grocery store, working as a clerk for four years.
Subsequently he devoted three years to farming but on the expiration of that
period again obtained a clerkship in a grocery store and was thus employed until
October, 1916 -- the date of his arrival in Toppenish, Washington. Here he
embarked in business on his own account, opening the Standard Sanitary Grocery
at the corner of A and Toppenish avenues, which he has conducted to the present
time. He carries a large line of staple and fancy groceries and enjoys an
extensive and profitable trade, for he has won an unassailable reputation for
thorough reliability, while his establishment is also most modern in its
appointments and his stock attractively displayed. 

On the 14th of October, 1916, Mr. Hanson was united in marriage to Mrs. Bertha
Trombley, of Nelson, Minnesota. He is a democrat in his political views and an
Elk in his fraternal relations, belonging to Lodge No. 318 of Yakima. He is also
an interested and active member of the Toppenish Commercial Club, while his
religious faith is that of the Lutheran church. Though still a young man, he has
already won a measure of prosperity that has gained him a place among the
substantial and representative citizens of his community.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.