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Register of the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
By Sons of the American Revolution. Empire State Society
"JAMES HOWARD HANSON.
Amsterdam, N. Y.
Lawyer. Born, Great Barrington, Mass., Sept. 27, 1867. Degree of B. A. from Union University. Member of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Delta Phi fraternities, Alpha Delta Phi Club of New York City, Altamont (Adirondack Club) and Amsterdam Library Association. Son of Andrew Tracy Hanson and Anna Johnson, etc. "
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JAMES HOWARD HANSON, A.B.
(with photo)
James Howard Hanson, Amsterdam, New York, attorney at law, was born September 27, 1867, in Great Harrington, Massachusetts, son of Andrew T. Hanson and Anne Johnson, his wife. On the paternal side he is of English descent, a direct descendant of John Shaw, one of the leaders of the Plymouth colony, and of Hezekiah Hoar, an ensign in Miles Standish's company and one of the first settlers of Taunton, Massachusetts. Andrew T. Hanson was a son of Jonathan Hoar Hanson and Priscilla Shaw. On the maternal side Mr. Hanson is of Dutch descent, descended from Rualf Jansen, patentee of Schodack Landing. His mother, Anne .Iohnson, was a daughter of Robert Johnson and Katherine Douw Van Ness. James H. Hanson prepared for college at the Union Classical lnstitute, Scheuectady, in 1889 graduating from Union College with honor, the winner of the Warner prize, the first Allen prize, Blatchford second prize, special Latin prize and taking special honors in English. In 1889 he was editor of "Concordiensis" and associate editor of tlie ''Garnet." He is also a Phi Beta Kappa and an Alpha Delta Phi man. Upon graduation he entered the law office of C. S. Nisbet of Amsterdam as a student, and in September, 1891, he was admitted to practice at the bar of New York state, in Saratoga Springs. In October, 1891, Mr. Hanson formed a partnership for general law practice with his preceptor, C. S. Nisbet, under the firm name of Nisbet & Hanson, and so still continues, actively engaged in practice in all of the counties of central New York state. They are attorneys for the Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville Railroad Company, the Edison Electric Light & Power Company, the First National Bank of Amsterdam, the water commissioners of that city, and for various other manufacturing firms and corporations. In 1905 Mr. Hanson was desismated by the attorney general as one of his special deputies to prosecute certain public officials in Montgomery county, which resulted in the removal of the clerk and the sheriff of the county by Governor Higgins. Associated with him in this work were E. P. White, a graduate of Union College, class of '79, and L. A. Serviss, class of '74. Mr. Hanson also holds positions of trust outside the field of the law, being a director and secretary of Chalmers' Knitting Company, manufacturers of knitted underwear; director of the E. Watson Gardiner Company, converters of cotton cloths; president of the Montgomery County Historical Society; director of the Amsterdam Free Library, since 1891; treasurer of St. Ann's Church, since 1896; secretary of the Board of Trade of Amsterdam, 1892-1899; a member of the advisory board of the Amsterdam Children's Home, trustee of the Union Association of Alpha Delta Phi. He is also a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Club of New York city, the Sons of the American Revolution, Washington Continental Guard of New York, the Bibliophile Society of Boston, the Association for the Preservation of the Adirondacks, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Montgomery County Historical Society, the New York State Bar association and of various clubs and social organizations of his city. In politics he is an independent Republican, but has taken no special interest in that field, never having held nor sought public office. Mr. Hanson is the author of the introduction to "The Minute Book of the Committee of Safety of Tryon County," which book was published by Dodd, Mead & Company in 1905. He married, November 30, 1892, Josephine H. Boardman, and has one child, Kenneth B. Hanson.
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