N--gALOGICAL" ECORID

 THE HANSON FAMILY.

GUSTAVE ADOLm HAHSON, the first of this family in Florida,
was born in Bolivar, Tennessee, October 14, 1834. He grow
to manhood in the town of his birth, and afterwards removed
to Memphis, Tennessee, where he found employment in various
capacities on the Mississippi river steamers.
 During this time he read law and was in due course ad-
mitted to practice his profession in the courts of Tennessee
and Arkansas. At the outbreak of the Civil War he entered
the Confederate service and was soon made a captain, then
major and just prior to the close of the war he was pro-
moted to a colonelcy. He was for a time on the staff of
General N. B. Forreat, the famous Confederate cavalry leader
 After serving throughout the war he returned to Meem-
phis, where he resumed the practice of his profession. Thisi
he continued till 1875, when, on account of ill health, he
engaged in farming with his brother-in-law, A. J. Norman, ati
Bartlett, Tennessee, and at the same time; practiced law.
 rihile living at Bartlett, Gustave Adolph Hanson was
elected to the Tennessee state senate from that district,
and served two years, from 1877 to 1879. After the expira-
tion of his term in the state senate of Tennessee he went to(
Washington, D.C., where he was associated with Congressman I
Casey Young, of Tennessee, in various positions of trust.
In 1881, he came to Florida. He made his, home in Bartow,
where he re-engaged in the practice of his profession of the)
law. Here he continued to reside for ten years, and in 1891
removed to Tampa. During his residence in Bartow he was ap-1
pointed judge of the circuit court of the Sixth judicial
circuit, which then included Polk as well as Hillsborough,
and several other counties. Judge Hanson was the immediate
successor ofT udge Henry Laurens Mitchell in the judpahip
of this circuit. The former held the position for about
three years.
 After resigning the office of jude, Judge Hanson re-
sumed the practice of the law in Tampa, and continued it up
to 1903, when failing health forced him to retire. He died
in Tampa March 9, 1909.
 He was a member of the United Confederate Veterans and!
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, which he joined
while residing in Bartow. At the time of his death he was
one of the stewards of the First Methodist Church of Tampa. i
 The subject of this sketch was the son of Gustave A *
dolph Hanson, a native of Francej who came to this country *"
and.: settled at Bolivar, Tennessee, where he died'when his
son, Gustave Adolph was but six months old. He married a i
Mias rwn,- of T=ennesse, who died-when-he-soa--wae-but six -
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