the hansen family journey
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The Hansen Family Journey
Jennifer Bickle
Assimilation My Great Grandpa Laurits Hansen moved
from Denmark to America and assimilated by changing his first name to Lawrence.
The Hansen family also had their four children speak English. The Danish language was lost through out the generations.
Pull Factors
The pull factors for Lawrence to come to Minnesota:
More opportunitiesAbility to purchase larger
amounts of land to start his own dairy
Having freedom in America was important.
Denmark was controlled by monarchy at that time.
Primary Sector Lawrence Hansen worked or owned a dairy. He
also had beef cattle that he raised to eat and sell to local butchers.
His son Raymond followed in his footsteps taking on the hard labor of working on a dairy.
Internal MigrationAfter Lawrence’s death his wife Elsie moved her family to San Diego. Within California Ray Hansen, my great grandfather, moved from San Diego to Compton. He then moved his family to Chino.
Urbanization My great grandfather was forced to sell
his dairy to the city of Compton in the early 1950’s due to the cities urbanization.