RACINE BELLE CITY OF THE LAKES AND RACINE COUNTY WISCONSIN-ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME II Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement

FANNY S. STONE Supervising Editor CHICAGO:
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1916
Contributed by Diane Kaye


E.W. Hansche
Among Racine county’s early settlers was numbered E. W. Hansche, who for a long period was actively and successfully engaged in truck gardening in Mount Pleasant township. He was born in Germany on the 2d of March, 1836, a son of E. W. Hansche. He was about twenty-one or twenty-two years of age when he arrived in Racine county and purchased land in Mount Pleasant township, upon which he resided until his demise. He worked diligently in the cultivation of the place and his farm of thirty-three acres responded readily to the care and labor which he bestowed upon it. All through the summer season he continually marketed vegetables and for his products found a ready sale. He thus won a substantial measure of success, his prosperity being attributable entirely to his individual effort.

In 1858 Mr. Hansche was married to Miss Sophia Tiggs and to them were born eight children, of whom seven are yet living: Mary, who is the wife of Fred Shermer, of Milwaukee, and has four children; Ernst, who married Annie Herzfeldt, by whom he has one child, and is now living in Milwaukee; Charles, of Kenosha, who wedded Mary Becker and has two children; Lydia, at home; Frank, who married Nita Scheller and resides in Racine; Albert, of Kenosha, who wedded Freda Klaiber and has five children; and Louis C., who completes the family.

In his political views E. W. Hansche was a republican with firm belief in the principles of the party but he never sought nor desired office. He belonged to the German Baptist church, of which his widow is a member. She still makes her home in this county but Mr. Hansche passed away on the 15th of April, 1913, his remains being interred in Mound cemetery. He was then seventy-seven years of age and his was a well spent and active life which won him recognition as a substantial and valued citizen of Racine county.