Sandager, H. T. 1876 – 1915

SANDAGER, HONSE

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Date: 4/27/2015 at 08:34:48

H. T. SANDAGER.

Prominent as one of the foremost agriculturists of the Calmar district, owning a valuable farm of five hundred acres and engaged in the automobile business in that city, H. T. Sandager occupies a substantial position in his community. He is a native of Calmar township, Winneshiek county, Iowa, born January 21, 1876, and a son of E. P. and Ragnhild (Honse) Sandager. E. P. Sandager, the father, made his home near Conover postoffice, on a farm in Calmar township, on the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 22. He was born in Sogndalen, Norway, on January 29, 1826. At the age of twenty-four, on May 13, 1850, he left his native land to seek the opportunities of the western hemisphere and, crossing the Atlantic and proceeding westward, came to Calmar township on the 11th of October, 1850. The voyage across the ocean was made in a sailing vessel, the trip to New York taking nine weeks and three days. From that city he proceeded to Buffalo and thence, via the Great Lakes, to Milwaukee, staying in Wisconsin three weeks. He came by private conveyance to Winneshiek county, being the second settler of Calmar township, his brother, the first man to make his home in these parts, coming three months previously. The father first purchased forty acres of land from the government, to which, by economy, industry and perseverance, he added until he owned nine hundred acres, comprising one of the best farms in the township. He was a prominent and influential man in Calmar township, widely known and highly respected. In 1855 he married Ragnhild Honse, born in Sogn, Norway, November 27, 1837, who sailed for America in April, 1853, the voyage consuming six weeks and three days. Landing in New York, she then proceeded to Illinois, which was her home for one year before coming to Calmar township. In their family were the following children: Peter, born June 5, 1856; Gilbert, born March 20, 1858, who died January 18, 1892; Gertrude, born May 4, i860, who passed away March 24, 1886; Andrew, whose date of birth is August 31, 1862; Martha, born February 12, 1865; Elese, born December 16, 1867, who died August 26, 1869; Elese, the second of the name, born May 28, 1870; Emma R., whose birth occurred on January 5, 1873; and Hans T., of this review. The father passed away on August 27, 1882, but his widow and the two youngest of the children are still living on the home farm.

Hans T. Sandagar was reared under the parental roof and educated in Calmar township, where he has always resided and is now operating the old home farm of five hundred acres in addition to conducting an automobile business in the town. In 1911 he and Theodore Skor, of whom more extended mention is made in another part of this work, engaged in the automobile business, erecting a modernly equipped garage in the main business section of Calmar. Their building is of brick, one story and forty by ninety feet. The firm is conducted under the name of Skor & Sandager and they handle exclusively Cadillac cars, also engaging in a general repair business. Mr. Sandager is also a stockholder of the Farmers Creamery Company of Calmar. A progressive man of the younger generation, he takes an active and helpful interest in all that affects the locality and is ever ready to promote worthy measures that will benefit the general public. A son of one of the pioneers of Calmar township, he worthily carries forward the family traditions, adding luster to the family name.

Source: History of Winneshiek County, Iowa Vol. II Chicago the S. J. Clark Publishing Company 1913

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