- ROBERT HANNINGSON, manufacture; P.O. Clinton Junction born
in Denmark, March 4,
- 1854, son of J. S. HANNINGSON, a merchant tailor in the old
country, who is now living in Wisconsin. Mr. Robert HANNINGSON
came to Wisconsin in 1873; after traveling considerably, settled
in Rock County in 1876, at Clinton. Commenced at first in coopering
business, working for SEARL & Co.; in November his factory
was destroyed by fire, but in spite of loss he is working back
to his former place again. As a sample of the business he has
done, in one year he made 112,000 cheese boxes; carried on the
largest factory of the kind in the country. Married, Dec. 31,
1877, Juga ENGER, a native of Norway. Have one little girl, six
months old, Olga H.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 780.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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