Walter Hendrick Hanson was born at Saratoga Springs, New York, August 21, 1866. He was educated in the public schools of Fairview, Saratoga Springs district schools, and at Philip's Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire. He was engaged in business at Albany, New York, but always has maintained a Saratoga residence, and was trustee of the village corporation, 1894-96. Mr. Hanson has for many years been engaged in business in New York, being connected with the stock exchange houses of Henry Allen & Company, Bell & Company, and C. H. DeWitt & Company, all of New York City. He was a member of the Albany Burgess Corps with the rank of lieutenant, 1894-97, resigning in the latter-named year. He is prominent in the Masonic order, belonging to Lodge, Chapter, and Commandery of the York Rite, and is a thirty-second degree Mason of the Scottish Rite, and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He married, June 21, 1889, Annie Gardner, daughter of Daniel S. Lathrop, of Albany. Child,
- Walter Lathrop Hanson, born January 28, 1891, graduate of Chester Military Academy, Chester, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Hanson resides at No. 474 Washington avenue, Brooklyn, New York.