When Soren Peter Hansen was born on 19 August 1870, in Klint, Højby, Ods, Holbæk, Denmark, his father, Anders Nielsen Hansen, was 31 and his mother, Ane Marie Sorensen, was 32. He married Hannah Monson on 1 June 1895, in Logan, Cache, Utah Territory, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 24 September 1895, in Newton, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 25, and was buried in Newton, Cache, Utah, United States.