Edward Franklin Hansen was born at Beloit.

The evidence

• “Edward Franklin Hansen was born October 7, 1860, at Beloit, Wis. He is the son of Carelius and Guri J.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34a-biographical-1.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 334 / book p. 831

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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