HANSEN

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Marin Journal
Thursday, December 5, 1918
Page 2

Harry Hansen, foreman of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad Co. ship carpenters and one of the most practical and efficient on the coast, died from heart failure in Tiburon on Tuesday.

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Sausalito News
Saturday, November 30, 1918
Page 5

Harry Hansen Passes Away

Harry Hansen, foreman of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad Co. ship carpenters and one of the most practical and efficient on the coast, died from heart failure in Tiburon on Tuesday. His death was a surprise and shock to all for Harry was well liked by all.

Funeral services were held in the undertaking parlors of f. E. Sawyer in San Rafael yesterday afternoon and the remains laid away in Mt. Tamalpais cemetery. A large number of his friends attended the funeral.

The deceased was a native of Germany, 69 years of age, and leaves a wife, Olga Hansen and three sons in the U.S. Naval Service Ensign Palmer Hansen on Transport Yale and William Hansen. He was a member of local lodge of the Order of Railway Employes. Harry Hansen entered the employ of the old North Pacific Coast Railroad as ship carpenter in the early eighties when Denis Gorman was chief engineer of the sturdy tug Tiger, used to tow the garbage between San Francisco and Sausalito and Captain McKenzie was in command of the fast single ender sidewheel ferryboat Sausalito running between San Quentin and San Francisco. With the frequent change of management of the North Pacific Coast and the North Shore and the subsequent consolidation of the North Shore and the California Northwestern under the name of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company, Harry Hansen was always the chief ship carpenter.

He was highly esteemed by all the officials he worked under and by all his subordinates.

The pall bearers were Captain A. A. Sandell, Clarence Harris, Mike Baxter, Sam Wetherbee, Jack Creighton and James Sheridan.