William Tapscott 1859 ~~~ Voyage to America - 11 April 1859

Ship/William Tapscott/11 Apr 1859
 Ship: William Tapscott
Date of Departure: 11 Apr 1859 - Port of Departure: Liverpool, England LDS Immigrants: 725 - Church Leader: Robert F. Neslen Date of Arrival: 13 May 1859 - Port of Arrival: New York, New York Source(s): BMR, Book #1046, pp. 102-130 (FHL #025,691); SMR, pp. 69-77; Customs #367 (FHL #175,547); SMR, 1859 (FHL #025,696)

Notes: "DEPARTURE. -- On the 11th instant, the ship William Tapscott set sail for New York, with 725 Saints on board. May the blessing of heaven accompany them on their journey Zionward; and may the Saints whom they have left behind in these lands be stimulated to increased exertions to swell the emigration list for another season, that they may then rise and follow them."
"ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTH COMPANY. -- William Tapscott, 725 souls. On Monday, April 11th, 1859, the ship William Tapscott sailed from Liverpool, England with 725 British, Scandinavian and Swiss Saints on board. 

The Scandinavian portion of the company, consisting of 355 souls, had sailed from Copenhagen, Denmark, on the steamer L. N. Hvidt April 1st, 1859, in charge of Elders Carl Widerborg and Niels Wihelmsen, and reached Grimsby, England, on the sixth, after a rather long and stormy passage over the German Ocean. From Grimsby the emigrants continued by rail to Liverpool, when they, on the seventh, went on board the William Tapscott, and were joined by the British and Swiss emigrants. 

Elder Robert F. Neslen was appointed president of the company, with Henry H. Harris and George Rowley as counselors. After going through the process of government inspection, clearing, etc., President Neslen, in connection with his counselors, proceeded to organize the company into ten wards, namely, five English and five Scandinavian, appointing a president over each, to see to the faithful observance of cleanliness, good order, etc. The Scandinavian Saints occupied one side of the vessel, and the British and Swiss the other. The company was blessed with a most pleasant and agreeable voyage, which lasted only thirty-one days. The health of the passengers was exceptionally good, which was demonstrated by the fact that only one death occurred on board, and that was an old Swedish sister by the name of Inger Olsen Hagg, sixty-one years old, who had been afflicted for upwards of five years previous to her embarkation. 

This was counterbalanced by two births. In the matrimonial department the company did exceedingly well, as no less than nineteen marriages were solemnized on board; of these five couples were English, one Swiss and thirteen Scandinavian. 

Every day during the voyage the people were called together for prayer and every morning and evening at eight o'clock. On Sundays three meetings were held on deck, and fellowship meetings in each ward two nights a week. The monotony of the voyage was also enlivened with singing, instrumental music, dancing, games, etc. in which as a matter of course, the junior portion took a prominent part, while the more sedate enjoyed themselves in seeing and hearing the happifying recreations. 

Elder Neslen writes that he felt it quite a task when he was appointed to take charge of a company composed of people from so many countries, speaking nine different languages, and having different manners, customs, and peculiarities, and thrown together under such close circumstances; but through the faithfulness and diligence of the Saints, which were universally manifested, he soon found the load far easier than he had anticipated, and on the arrival of the company in New York, it was pronounced by doctors and government officers to be the best disciplined and most agreeable company that ever arrived at that port. 

Arriving safely in the New York harbor, the emigrants were landed in the Castle Gardens on Saturday, the fourteenth of May. On the same day, in the evening; most of them continued the journey by steamboat up the Hudson River to Albany, where they arrived the following morning. Thence they traveled by rail via Niagara to Windsor, in Canada, where they, on the sixteenth crossed the river to Detroit, and thence continued the journey by rail, by way of Quincy to St. Joseph, Missouri, where they arrived on the twenty-first. In the afternoon of that day they boarded the steamboat St. Mary which brought them to Florence, Nebraska, where they arrived on the twenty-fifth, in the morning. 

The whole route through the States was one which no former company of emigrating Saints had ever taken. Brother George Q. Cannon and those who assisted him in the emigrating business were quite successful in making arrangements for their transportation by rail direct to St. Joseph, instead of, as first contemplated, shipping them to Iowa City. On their arrival at Florence the Saints were organized into temporary districts and branches, with presiding officers over each, whose duty it was to look after the comfort and welfare of the people which encamped at that place. Prayer meetings were held regularly twice a week in most of these temporary branches. About fifty of the Saints who crossed the Atlantic in the William Tapscott stopped temporarily in New York and other parts of the United States. (Millennial Star, Vol. XXI, pp.286, 419; Morgenstjernen, Vol. III p.82)" 

"Mon. 11. [Apr. 1859] -- The ship William Tapscott sailed from Liverpool, England, with 725 Saints, under the direction of Robert F. Nelsen. The company arrived at New York May 14th, and at Florence, Nebraska, May 25th."
". . . On Friday, April 1, 1859, a company of Scandinavian Saints, consisting of 355 souls, namely 224 Danes, 113 Swedes and 18 Norwegians, sailed from Copenhagen, Denmark, on the steamer 'L. N. Hivdt,' in charge of Elders Carl Widerborg and Niels Wilhelmsen. After a rather stormy voyage over the North Sea the company reached Grimsby, England, on the 6th. From Grimsby the emigrants continued the journey by rail the same day to Liverpool, where they, on the 7th, went on board the ship 'William Tapscott,' Captain Bell, and were joined by British and Swiss emigrants. Elder Robert F. Neslen was appointed president of the company, with Henry H. Harris and George Rowley as counselors. Under them Elders Soren P. Guhl, Johan F. Klingbeck, Peter A. Fjeldsted, Anders Petersen, Lars Petersen and Morten Petersen presided over the Scandinavians.

 Brothers Christian Jeppesen and Niels Jacobsen acted as interpreters and Hans O. Magleby and Anton Petersen as cooks. On Monday, April 11, 1859, the ship lifted anchor and was tugged out of the Mersey into the open sea with its precious cargo of 726 souls. Songs of joy resounded from all parts of the ship as it was pulled out to sea, but these were subsequently succeeded by a chorus of those who, during the first days of the voyage, yielded to the usual attack of seasickness, in which most of the passengers participated to a greater or less extent. . . ."

Names of Passengers abourd:
https://saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu/mii/voyage/433

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Family Group Sheet of Erick B. Ericksen

Home of Edward Cliff and Eliza Cresswell ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

UTAH REACHES STATEHOOD

45 Star Flag ~~ Utah Became A State 

STATEHOOD

Norma Smith Wanlass Manti, UT 84642

Before admitting Utah to the Union, the United States Congress turned down six statehood petitions from the territory, and the six petitions are only the efforts that got as far as Washington. For 45 years Mormons deliberated, petitioned, politicked and intrigued almost constantly to achieve it. Why should statehood be successful in 1895 and a failure in 1849, 1856, 1862, 1872, and 1887? The answer, Polygamy. 1

If Congress had admitted the State as in the original petition almost all of Utah and Nevada, as well as large parts of Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Oregon, were within the boundaries of Deseret. It took Congress two years to decide what to do. When it finally acted, it rejected the petition for statehood, instead creating the Territory of Utah.

As a Territory, the Mormon settlers were less able to control their own affairs than they would have been as a state.2 When the Mormons came to Utah it was still in Mexico, yet part of the problem was that the Mormons had settled the land without authority of the United States government. They granted tracts to their members to farm, and gave vast water and timber rights to their leaders to administer to the community. Because they held their land without title from the United States, some gentiles claimed the property of their Mormon neighbors. This resulted in court battles and street fights.3 

Women were given the right to vote in Utah in l870, the first in the nation to exercise that right. The first votes cast by women in municipal elections in the United States were in Salt Lake City. In the EdmundsTucker Act of 1887, Congress revoked the right of women to vote—to reduce the political power of the Mormons.4 Stiff new penalties were prescribed for polygamy by the Edmunds Act, and co-habitation with more than one wife was defined as a separate criminal offense.

Over 1200 persons were convicted and served time in the territorial penitentiary. The common law rule that a wife may not testify against her husband was declared inoperative in the case of polygamous wives. Many went to jail for contempt when they refused to give evidence against their husbands.5

In 1887 Congress struck the final legislative blow with the Edmunds-Tucker Act. That law: —Disincorporated the Mormon Church and the perpetual Emigration Company. —Declared all church property in excess of $50,000 forfeit to the government, and gave the courts power to ferret out actual holdings of the church, setting aside devices such as the "trustee in trust." —Abolished woman suffrage in Utah, disinherited children of polygamous marriages, and required al] marriages be certified by the courts. —Required an expurgatory oath of all prospective voters swearing they did not belong to or support an organization which advocated polygamy. Thus, any Mormon would have to forswear himself to vote.6

After passage of this Act, the Mormons surrendered over $1 Million in property to the federal government to facilitate a court test of the constitutionality of the legislation. Temple Square in Salt Lake City was one of those forfeited properties. The church continued to occupy the block, but paid rent to the government.

7 The Edmunds-Tucker Act was morally wrong when it took the franchise from women. Unjust as it was, the provisions of the Constitutional Convention defining the qualifications for voting could not go into effect until Utah became a state. This legislation was violently in opposition to the Constitution of the United States. This act illegally confiscated the real estate property belonging to the church. Nine years passed before the enormity of the crime was realized. "Resolved, that all of the real estate now in the hands of the receiver of the 'late' Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and all the rents, issues and profits arising there from, are hereby granted and conveyed to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints." This resolution was approved by the House, March 24, 1896, and signed by President Cleveland, March 28, 1896.8 

For 42 years Utah had been called wicked. Now they were vindicated. 33 "Utah is a State" The click of the telegraph instrument conveyed the news that the people had long been waiting for. At 9:03 A.M. in Utah, on Saturday, January 4, 1896, Utah assumed the robes of State sovereignty. To other states, statehood came as a matter of course; to Utah it came as a sacred deed of trust put in the hands of the people. The joy was too deep for any outward violent demonstration; but that did not disguise from any looker-on the truth that the people were immensely, intensely moved.9

MANTI, HOW WE CELEBRATED

 January 6, 1896 Early on Monday morning the booming of cannons, ringing of cow bells and blowing of whistles gratified the ear, or otherwise, with the noise. In every direction flags and bunting met the eye. Uncle Sam paraded the street accompanied by as many noise-makers as could be raked together. At 11 A.M. the citizens met at the Tabernacle and crowded it to its limits. The meeting was well warmed up by the stove brought from the SPV round house. —Call to order at 12 P.M. by Master of Ceremonies, Mayor Alder. —Music - Double Mixed Quartette —Invocation - Anthony W. Bessey —Music - "America ", by school children. —Address - Honorable C. P. Larsen —Music - Guitar and Mandolin Club. —Speech - Bishop Win. T. Reid. —Song - by the Schools. —Speech - Pres. J. B. Maiben —Speech - Mrs. A. L. Cox —Song - Misses Billings —Speech - Mrs. Adelia Sidwell —Speech - Bishop Hans Jensen —Male Quartette. —Speech - "Pioneers" , George P. Billings —Speech - Daniel Henrie M.W.V. —Music - Orchestra. —Speech - Pres. J. D. T. McAllister. —Music - Choir, Schools and Audience. —Benediction - Rev. G. W. Martin.

The Program was carried out in a splendid manner. The speeches were good particularly that of President Maiben. The singing was excellent and the double quartette was all right. There were too many speeches which made the meeting too long, but we scarcely see how it could be shortened. In the evening the dances were well attended, and a good time was spent by the participants. Altogether the whole affair was a genuine success.

Eddie, son of Judge Cochran had his eyes filled with burnt powder and it was feared that his eyesight would be permanently injured, but he is doing all right under Dr. Morrey's care.

 One thing lacking about the decorations was a picture of President Cleveland. The committee secured the services of Oliver Christiansen, to make one, but the work was not considered good enough and it was reluctantly laid aside. The Sentinel—January 8, 1896 34

 GUNNISON

Inaugural Day at Gunnison was celebrated in a manner which will never be forgotten. The citizens seemed to be out in masses to show their appreciation of the boon of Statehood. Just before 11 o'clock on the morning of January 6, 1896, commenced the firing of artillery and ringing of the bell while the brass band paraded the streets. The people gathered at the R.S. Hall and soon filled the building to overflow. The hall was beautifully decorated and the stores, as well as many residences were bedecked with bunting and flags. Large flags were displayed over the R.S. Hall, Co-op, Presbyterian chapel, and premises of W.H. Gribble, Mrs. Julius Christensen and Edmund Sandersen.

The city tendered free to the public, three dances that night. Each hall was thronged and merriment reigned supreme. Last night the smaller children danced at Johnson's. Gunnison is elated over the prospect of one of her citizens being entitled to the Salt Lake Herald's gold and silver cup, as well as the honor attached if decided, that she has the first born son in the State of Utah.

Anton Jensen will send in a claim for the cup in behalf of a son, GROVER JAMES JENSEN, born on Saturday morning, January 4, 1896, at 8 o'clock and ten minutes local standard time, just seven minutes after President Cleveland signed a proclamation of statehood. Mr. Jensen is a Democrat and it is hoped he will be the winner.

Sentinel—January 8, 1896
It is noted that in the regular session of Manti Council Meeting held January 7, 1896, a bill was submitted by Marshal Billings amounting to 25c for flags for decorating on State Day. Bill was allowed. Council adjourned. Signed—Ferdinand Alder Mayor

 JESSIE WINTCH JENSEN, of Manti, Utah, was nine years old when Utah was admitted to the sisterhood of States. She remembers the gunners and their 45 salutes, the noise, the flag and bunting decorating the Tabernacle and Main Street, the band, the choruses, and the speeches. One speaker explained what statehood meant and this impressed her. It was a somber, joyful occasion. Mrs. Jensen was the only person I found who remembered this historic day first hand. There were several others whom I contacted—all in their nineties, but they had no remembrance of it. Mrs. Jensen will be 96 years old on September 24, 1982. She has lived a good productive life, highly esteemed by everyone. Her sense of humor is wonderful, and she considers it a great privilege to vote in all elections. Just think, if you can, of all the changes during her life span. Sources: 7Deseret, p. 198. 1History of Utah, Vol. I, p. 490, by Wayne Stout. 8 & 9 History of Utah, Vol. 2, p. 8 and Vol. 1, p. 519. By Wayne Stout. 2Deseret, p. 189. 3Deseret, pp. 189-191. 4Deseret, p. 191. 5Deseret, p. 196. 6Deseret, p. 197.

Hamilton Elementary 2nd Grade - Mrs. Winterbottom - approx. 1951

Congrats To Our Son, Jon for winning A Sanpete County Fair Sweepstakes Award

Home of Jacob Hafen and Anna Catherina Naef ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Journey of Faith ~ Erick and Caroline Gunderson ~~~ by David R. Gunderson

With permission of David R. Gunderson, we include the following book to our blog.   I will do a few increments at a time, as I have done with the Andrew Madsen and James Monsen histories.  I will also paste the pages over to David's own blog page: http://davidrgunderson.blogspot.com/

This book will be of interest to not only the Gunderson Family but also to the Brotherson, Ericksen, Peel,   Madsen, Larsen and more.

Recipes For the Fall Season

SALSA 

28 tomatoes (peeled)
2 jalepeno peppers
2 buds of garlic
1/2 cup sugar
1 Tbs chili powder
3  Tbs salt
1 1/2 Tbs pepper
2 tsp mustard
4 green peppers
2 red peppers
4 onions

Mix together and bottle.  Put in Hot bath for 5 minutes to seal.

Annie Marie Sophie Clausen Cambron Rambo ~~~~ Her final Journey

This History is taken from the book "The Family History of William Bristol, Ane Marie Sophie Clausen, Joseph Cambron, and their Descendants ...... Written by Pat L. Sagers. 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF CORNELIA SNOOK STAKER

A September Sunset ~~~ by Louise S. Smith

David L Peterson ~~~ Pleasant Creek Sprinkler System

Home of Ann Watkins Seely (husband being William Stewart Seely) ~~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Jed Lund Ericksen Obituary

Jed Lund Ericksen died August 12, 2019. He was born in Mt. Pleasant, Utah on February 7, 1945, to Harry and Ethel Lund Ericksen.

 Graduated from North Sanpete High School in 1963 where he was a three sport letterman and scholastic honor student. He received advanced degrees from BYU and University of Utah, graduating magna cum laude from each. 

Married Vickie Dawn Southwick in the Manti Temple. They are the parents of four children: Russell (and Chris) Ericksen, Ryan (and Ashley) Ericksen, Daniel (and Courtney) Ericksen and Brooke (and Jared) Lambeth. He has eight grandchildren. 

He had a long legacy of service in the LDS Church, having served in the Florida Mission, in the Stake Presidency of the Salt Lake Butler Stake and Bishop of the Butler 12th ward as well as multiple other callings over his lifetime. Jed’s professional career spanned 40 years in mental health service as an adjunct associate professor in the University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and as Director of Psychiatric Emergency Services for Valley Mental Health and University Medical Center. 

He taught human behavior and abnormal behavior courses for the Utah State Peace Officer Standards and Training Academies for over 25 years and was instrumental in establishing and fostering Police Crisis Intervention Training (CIT Teams) throughout Utah. He was long recognized as the foremost authority on Civil Psychiatric Commitment law and procedure in Utah and taught Designated Examiner Certification for the Utah State Division of Mental Health for many years. Jed was extremely kind, gentle, wise, and selfless. We will miss him! Preceded in death by parents, 4 brothers, 1 sister.

Funeral services will be Saturday, August 17th at 11 am at Lehi North Stake Center located at 650 E 3200 N, Lehi, Utah.  A viewing will be held Friday, August 16th from 6-8pm at Anderson & Sons Mortuary located at 6141 W 11000 N, Highland, Utah and from 9:45 to 10:45 am on the day of the service at the Stake Center. Interment following services will be at Highland City Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to Valley Mental Health Foundation or Utah Chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI-Utah).

Utah State Penitentiary, Sugarhouse, Salt Lake City, Utah

Utah State Penitentiary

The following photographs and paintings show the Utah State Penitentiary, a Federal prison that was located at the present Sugar House Park in Salt Lake City.


The actual prisoner photos have been collected over the years from various sources. Some from the Utah Historical Society files, others from private sources. Some are new to the Historical Society and they have been shared with the LDS Church Historical Department and the Historical Society. Some of the pictures are duplicates with names written on them.

George Q. Cannon writes in his journal: On Tuesday November 13, 1888 and November 15, 1888 my portrait with the brethren. They formed different groups and each group desired me to sit with them. Thursday was a chilly day and I was kept out most of the time with my head uncovered, for about two hours, sitting before the camera. The result was I took a very heavy cold. Br. C. R. Savage accompanied by May Wells the first day and Br. Ottingerr, Jr. the second day was the photographer.

Journal of Abraham Alonzo Kimball – C. R. Savage was in the yard taking striped groups, As I was coming down the stairs, I met brother Cannon going up. I hardly knew him as he had colored his beard and eyebrows - - Louis Farr came for me to come down and have my picture taken in a group of 14 bishops and Br. Cannon. I was the only one not in stripes I had my overcoat on.

Early painting of Utah Pen showing adobe brick walls

Left to right F.A. Brown, Moroni Brown, A Milton Musser, Parley P. Pratt Jr. Rugger Clawson and Job Pingree taken August or September 1885. 

Cannon center with flowers: to his left, Joseph Stacy Murdock from Heber, Ut; Alonzo Kimball on lower step in black, Andrew Wood Cooley – Bishop of Brighton Ward, Right of Cannon: David M. Stuart.. James Campbell Hamilton, top left (highest). 3rd from right: John Jardine; Winslow Farr, Jr., with mutton chop sideburns, right of Cannon: Thomas Harper, Bishop of Harper Ward.

   John Walton Price, James C. Hamilton, Guard, George Q. Cannon, Guard, Charles Nookes and A. J. Hansen


The above photos and history is taken from "The Stay Family History"http://www.stayfamily.org/showmedia.php?mediaID=247
More photos can be found there.

Parley Hansen Obituary

Parley Hansen

BIRTH
10 Dec 1875

Mount Pleasant, Sanpete County, Utah, USA

DEATH
12 Oct 1941 (aged 65)

Mount Pleasant, Sanpete County, Utah, USA

BURIAL

Mount Pleasant City Cemetery

Mount Pleasant, Sanpete County, Utah, USA

PLOT
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Parley Hansen, 66, retired Mt. Pleasant business man, died at his home Sunday morning from a heart attack.

Mr. Hansen was formerly associated with his brother, the late Mayor Bent R. Hansen, in the lumber and mortuary business and also operated a saw mill, and had extensive building interests. Prior to his retirement a year ago he was employed in the Mt. Pleasant post office as an assistant to Postmaster Ray K. Bohne. 

He was a member of the South LDS ward elders' quorum. He had served one term as city councilman and was formerly a member of Liberty camp No. 455, Woodmen of the World and a charter member of the Mt. Pleasant Lions club.

He was born in Mt. Pleasant, December 10, 1874 (should be 1975), a son of Bent and Helena Olson Hansen. He was married in the Manti L D S. temple February 21, 1900, to Fredrikka Brothersen, who survives him with one son and four daughters; P. O. Hansen and Mrs. Crystal H. Smith of Salt Lake City; Mrs. Helen H. Poulson of Duchesne; Mrs. Alice H. Ashton of Heber and Mrs. Lucile H. Lipphardt of Mt. Pleasant; seven grandchildren; one sister and three brothers, Mrs. Lydia H. Backman, John H. and William Hansen, all of Mt. Pleasant, and Leonard Hansen of Las Vegas, Nev.
Salt Lake Tribune October 13, 1941.

Family Members

Parents

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  Bent Hansen

  1838–1902
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  Helena Olsen Hansen

  1844–1918

  
  

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    Othello Parley Hansen

    1901–1986
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    Helen Josephine Hansen Cluff

    1903–1992
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    Alyce Marye Hansen Ashton

    1907–1992
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    Christie B Hansen

    1914–1914
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    Chrystal Hansen Smith

    1914–2002

Spouse

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  Fredricka Brothersen Hansen

  1880–1970

Siblings

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  Bent Hansen

  1863–1864
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  John Henry Hansen

  1865–1958
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  Hannah Christine Hansen

  1867–1889
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  Peter Hansen

  1869–1874
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  Bent Richard Hansen

  1871–1933
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  Leonard L Hansen

  1873–1953
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  Ole Hansen

  1874–1875
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  William Hansen

  1882–1962
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  Frank Hansen

  1883–1886
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  Raphael Hansen

  1884–1886
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  Helena Hansen

  1886–1886