A Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin. An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development.

              526 HISTORY OF AVAUPACA COUNTY
160 acres in section 3 of Waupaca Township. Here his enterprise and progressive methods have been illustrated at their best. He has ec[uipped his farm with up-to-date buildings and other facilities, has a barn 44 by 56 feet and modern in all its appointments, and feeds his stock from a silo 14 by 32 feet. His principal income is from the dairy indus¬ try, and he keeps only the best grades of Holstein. He is one of the active members of the Holstein Association of Waupaca County.
While concentrating all his eff'orts upon the main business of life Air. Hanson has not neglected those duties which fall to the lot of every good citizen. He was township treasurer of AVaupaca Town for four years and spent about six years as a member of the school board. In politics he is a republican.
In 1888, early in his career as an American farmer, he married Miss Amelia Rasmussen, who was born in Racine County, Wisconsin, a daughter of Peter and Anna Rasmussen. The Rasmussen family settled in Waupaca County in 1863, and Peter Rasmussen died there in 1909 at the age of sixty-seven and his widow is still living aged seventy.
Mr. and Mrs. Hanson are not only proud of the prosperity which has been reared under their hands and management, but also of their two very capable and sturdy sons. These are Christ, who was born September 10, 1889, and Ralph, born August 19, 1891. The older son has an ambition to become an expert farmer and dairyman, and has spent the last four years on a large dairy farm in Illinois, where 100 head of milkers are kept. He has thus familiarized himself with all the details of the management of a large, sanitary and efficient dairy, and is well cjualified for a post as head dairyman or as an independent farmer. The younger son now owns and occupies a farm of eighty acres in sec¬ tion 2 of Waupaca Township.
Nathan Cohen, active head of the largest department store at Waupaca, is everywhere regarded as a past master of merchandising, has given his best energies, his study and increasing skill to that business since early boyhood, and as a man of splendid integrity is a citizen of whom any community might be proud.
He was born in Russia December 24, 1870, received a fair education in his native land, but on coming to America had to begin life on the bot¬ tom round of the ladder. In 1887 he came to Alilwaukee and soon joined his two brothers Max and Joseph Cohen. In 1892 they located in Neenah, Wisconsin, in 1894 removed to Grand Rapids, and the other two brothers have been in active business there ever since. In 1897 a branch of their enterprise was established at AVaupaca, under the name of The Fair, and Air. Nathan Cohen has since been in active control. It is the largest department store in the county, and has a space of over 32,000 square feet devoted to the handling and display of a magnificent assortment of merchandise.
From merchandising Mr. Cohen's interests have become widely extended. He is a stockholder and director in the Farmers State Bank, having filled that office since the institution was organized, and in 1915