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HINES, Frank son of Frank
and Barbara Hines, was born in Landskron, Austria, October 24,
1847. His father was born July 24, 1824, and was a carpenter by
trade, also working a small piece of land in his native country.
Upon coming to the United States he settled at Kenosha, Wis.,
June 26, 1855, remaining for three years working among the
farmers. July 14, 1858, he moved to Pierce County, settling in El
Paso Township. He purchased 240 acres of wild land and followed
farming for the remainder of his days, becoming a large property
holder in El Paso and Ellsworth townships. He is still living at
the age of 84 years, his wife having passed away October 6, 1905,
at the age of seventy-nine years, since which time he has lived
among his children. There were nice children in their family,
five of whom survive, as follows: Frank, F. W., Mary (now Mr.s
Brooksha), Joseph and Matilda, wife of B. E. Stiner. Frank came
to America with his parents at the age of seven years. He
attended the common schools and remained under the family tree
until twenty-five years of age, when he married and purchased his
present farm of 120 acres of rich land, section 7, El Paso
Township. In addition to this farm he now owns 680 acres of
timber land in El Paso township and 480 acres in the county of
Billings, North Dakota. Upon his farm he engages in farming, but
he has also worked at the lumber business for the past thirty-five
years. In 1897 he purchased a sawmill which he still operates,
his annual output being about 1,500,000 feet of hardwood lumber.
Mr. Hines is a member of the Catholic Church and a Democrat in
politics, being also one of the leading and most prosperous men
in the township. He was married January 6, 1873, to Mary Nagle,
daughter of Frank and Johanna Nagle, who came to America in 1872
and settled in El Paso township, where they remained until the
time of their death. Mr. and Mrs. Hines have had seven children,
six of whom are living. Mary is the wife of Albert Fountain, who
lives on a farm adjoining that of our subject, and has three
children, Lizzie, Mary and Henrietta, the latter being now
deceased. Anna married W. E. Stiner, a farmer of El Paso Township.
Frank is the third child. Peter, who married Anna Traynor, has
two children and resides on a farm in El Paso Township and also
owns 320 acres in North Dakota. Fred and Joseph are living at
home. Henrietta died February 23, 1907, at the age of eighteen
years, and is buried at Lost Creek Cemetery. (taken from "History
of the St. Croix Valley", published in 1909)
HOHLE, Ole J. county clerk of Pierce
county, Wisconsin, was born in Norway, September 7, 1859, and
received his early education at the place of his birth, coming to
America in 1883. His father, Jacob, is now deceased. By
occupation he was a farmer. His widow is still living and resides
on the old homestead, which has been in the Hohle family for
several centuries. The subject of this sketch is the only one of
six children residing in the Untied States. Upon coming to the
United States Mr. Hohle located at Martell, Wis., for two winters
attended the high school at River Falls, graduated from it, and
for a number of years taught school in Pierce and St. Croix
counties. During this time he served as town clerk of the
township of Martell for several years, and was also justice of
the peace for some time. He has held the office of county clerk
for ten years, being fist elected in 1898 on the Republican
ticket, holding the office for five terms. He is a member of the
Masonic order and the Lutheran church. Mr. Hohle was married to
Mamie L. Peterson, October 28, 1898. She was born in Martell
Township, a daughter of Bertel and Hannah Peterson. Mr. Peterson
was an early settler of Pierce County, and has always followed
farming. His wife died some years ago. Mrs. Hohle is a member of
the Eastern Star and the Lutheran church. (taken from "History
of the St. Croix Valley", published in 1909).
HOLLIDAY,
E.R. Dr., was born in
Calumet county, Wisconsin, May 21, 1865, and received his early
education in the common and high schools. He is a son of William
and Betsie M. Holliday, both natives of St. Lawrence county, New
York. They came to Wisconsin after their marriage, about the year
1850, and settled at Hayton, Calumet county, where the father
purchased wild at Hayton, Calumet county, where the father
purchased wild lands, which he improved and there made his home
until his death, in 1892. He was a prosperous and progressive man.
His widow is still living at the age of eighty-four years and
resides with her children. The subject of this ketch left home
when he was seventeen years of age. He taught school four years
in Clark county, Wisconsin, and two years in Calumet county and
then took up the study of medicine. He attended the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, and graduated from that
institution in 1893, being valedictorian of his class. He
immediately began the practice of his profession at Clear Lake,
Wis., and remained there one year. He resided two years at Amery,
Wis., and in the winter of 1896 came to Ellsworth and has been
here ever since, with the exception of 1901, when he was
assistant superintendent of the state home for the feeble-minded
at Chippewa Falls, Wis. The doctor has a good general practice at
Ellsworth and the surrounding country. He is a member of the
Pierce county Medical Society, Wisconsin State Medical
Association, and the American Medical Association. Non-partisan
in politics, he was the first president of the village of Clear
Lake, Wis., and has served as one of the village council of
Ellsworth for several terms. He is a member of the Masonic order
and the Modern Woodmen of America. In 1893, June 22, Dr. Holliday
married Laura A. Freeman, born in Florence, Minn., daughter of
Theodore and Adelia (Skinner) Freeman. Mr. Freeman was an early
settler of Minnesota, and died on his farm at the age of about
sixty-five years. Mrs. Freeman is residing with her son on the
old homestead. Mrs. Holliday was educated at Lake City, Minn.,
and has one child, Beth A., born December 15, 1896. (taken from
"History of the St. Croix Valley", published in 1909)
HOLLISTER,
Oliver, was born in
Bethel, Sullivan County, New York, November 15, 1827, son of
Sheldon and Melinda (Crocker) Hollister. The father was one of
the pioneers of Connecticut, and had a farm near Hartford, the
capital city of that state, being also a carpenter by trade. He
passed away at the comparatively early age of forty-two years.
His wife was of German birth. Sheldon and Melinda Hollister were
the parents of eight children, two of whom are now living. Mrs.
Elizabeth Course lives in Champaign, Ill., and has one son, Lyman
Burr. Her brother, Oliver C., is the subject of this sketch.
Oliver C. attended the common schools of his native town, but
owing to the death of his father had to start work for himself
while still a young lad. About 1850 he was married to Annie
Horton, in Monteclair, N. J., by whom he has one son, George S.,
who is now one of the prominent business men of Prescott, Wis. In
1855, the subject of this sketch came to Prescott and shortly
took up eighty acres at Oak Grove, this state. He farmed for
three years, then worked three years at blacksmithing in
Prescott, and afterward went back to his farm in Oak Grove for
six years more. Subsequently he bought 220 acres in the town of
Clifton, Wis., which city he has since resided. He was married in
1904 to Mrs. Sarah (Flagg) Moody. Mrs. Hollister is of French
extraction, daughter of John and Sarah (Mathews) Flagg. She was
born in Noblesboro, Me., where she spent her early life and
received a part of her education. Her father was a prominent
Maine farmer, having lived from 1800 to 1883. His wife was a
woman of strong faith and able character. She passed away in her
ninety0fourth year, in the complete possession of her faculties
to the very last. Mr. Hollister has been a very active man in his
day and his life has been one of careful industry. He has never
cared to take an active part in politics, although his vote has
never been cast without a thoughtful and careful consideration of
every principle at issue. He votes the Republican ticket and at
one time served for a number of years in the city council. Mr.
and Mrs. Hollister are member of the Methodist church.Reference:
Taken from "History of the St. Croix Valley", published
in 1909.
HOLT,
Morris C. (Civil War) , farmer, P.
O. Ono, Pierce county, was born in Sadsbury township, Crawford
county, Pa., May 1, 1838, a son of Eleazer Holt, who was born in
Litchfield, Conn., June 7, 1810, and married Melissa Sexton. Five
children were born to them: Anna M., now Mrs. Maxwell; Frances F.,
who became Mrs. Denham, now deceased; Clinton C., Henry S., and
our subject. When seven years old Morris C. moved with his
parents to Dodge county, Wis., and lived there until twenty-one
years of age. In 1859 he bought a farm and worked on it until
September, 1862, when he enlisted in the Tenth Wisconsin battery
and went to Nashville, Tenn. He was in the department of the
Cumberland, and with Sherman in his march to the sea. He
participated in various engagements but was not wounded. At the
close of the war he came home and married Permelia, daughter of G.
and F. Wood, and settled on his farm. Three children have been
born to them, namely; Milo E., died February 15, 1889; Fanny J.
and Emil E., all of whom live at home. There were only three
families in what is now Union township when he came here, and he
helped organize the township when there was only fourteen voters
in it. The territory embraced in the township was such a
wilderness at that time that the chairman of the meeting and one
other voter got lost on their way to the polls and did not reach
there until late in the day. Of these fourteen voters seven
enlisted in 1862, served through the war and lived to return home.
He was the first township clerk, and held that office three
years, and was treasurer three years. He helped to organize the
first school and was the first district clerk, and has been
almost continuously in office. He has been a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church a great many years, and has always
held some office in the same. In politics he is a republican. --Taken
from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin.
HOPE. Thomas W, (Civil War - Indian Wars) was born in
Erie county, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1844, son of George B.
and Eveline Ruth (Crane) Hope, the latter being daughter of
Abartha Crane, one of the earliest settlers of Erie, Erie county,
Pa., and a colonel in the War of 1812. Thomas was educated in the
public schools of Erie, Pa.; Trumbull, Ohio., and Champaign, Ill.
During his residence in Trumbull county, OH., he was a boy friend
of William McKinley and William McKinley Osborne and attended the
same school with Osborne. He went from there to Urbana, Ill.,
staying one year and a half. He then came by team to Rock Island,
Ill., thence by boat, "Northern Belle," in 1855, and
settled in Pierce County, where he has since continued to live.
Upon his arrival here he engaged with his father in wood and lime
burning and farming. He served as a soldier against the Indians
during the time of their uprising at New Ulm in 1862, and in
February, 1864, he enlisted at Red Wing, Minn., in Company I,
Fist Minnesota Heavy Artillery, serving until the close of the
war. In the summer of that year while stationed at Chattanooga,
Tenn., they had charge of prisons and forts and his company wad
divided to take charge of two forts. Mr. Hope came under the
command of Lieut. James H. Carney, who occupied Fort Carpenter,
which commanded the landing and the bridge across the Tennessee
river at Chattanooga. Mr. Hope was appointed duty sergeant and
when Lieutenant Carney was called away on duty to the battlefield
of Chickamauga to look up and mark the positions that Minnesota
regiments held in that battle, he appointed Mr. Hope to command
the fort until his return, which command Mr. Hope filled with
credit to himself and to his superior officer. At another time in
1865 Chattanooga was threatened with being blown up by a burning
magazine of explosives and ammunition, a large amount of
government stores and supplies being held at that place. Mr. Hope
took part in working a force pump engine close to the bursting
shells and other explosives, the danger of death being so great
that an officer stood on the engine with a pail of stimulant,
passing it to the men to nerve them up. It took a day and a night
to subdue the fire, but the bridge and a large amount of stores
and supplies were saved. Mr. Hope came out all right, but left
the canteen behind. Mr. Hope's regiment was part of the Army of
the Cumberland under Gen. George H. Thomas. He was mustered out
at Nashville, Tenn., September 27, 1865, and received his
dismissal from the state service in October of that year at Fort
Snelling. Returning at once to Diamond Bluff, Wis., he settled
down to farming. He was married February 1, 1867, at Prescott,
Wis., to Isara L. Durgin, daughter of Charles G. Durgin, of River
Falls, Wis., the ceremony being performed by Capt. P. V. Wise,
justice of the peace at Prescott, Wis. This union was blessed
with six children, four of whom are now living. George May Hope
lives in St. Paul, Minn.; Charles William Hope lives in Diamond
Bluff, Wis.; Frank Parker Hope lives at Holding Ford, Minn., and
Seth Chancellor Hope is a farmer living in Trim Belle township,
Wisconsin. Mr. Hope is a church-going man and belongs to the G. A.
R. post of Trim Belle, of which he was junior vice-commander two
terms. He is also a member of the Regimental Union, of St. Paul,
Minn., and of the St. Croix Valley Veteran Association. He was at
one time elected town assessor, but declined to serve. Mrs. Hope
passed away June 11, 1891. (Taken from "History of the St.
Croix Valley", published in 1909).
HOPE,
George Wellington (Civil War) was born in
Erie, Erie county, Pa., in 1841, a brother of Thomas W. Hope. He
was educated in Eire, Pa.; at Girard, Pa.; Trumbull county, Ohio,
and at Urbana, Ill. He came to Wisconsin in 1855 with his
parents, his brother, Thomas W., and his sister, Ruth Ann. Until
1861 he assisted his father and brother in farming and running a
lime kiln at Diamond Bluff. In that year he enlisted at Prescott,
Wis., in Company A, Twelfth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and
served in the battle of Atlanta, Ga., July 21, 1864, being killed
by a bullet which passed through his head. He was found buried
across the second line of the rebel breastworks, which indicated
that he was in the front ranks when he fell mortally wounded,
giving up his life for the country that he loved so well and for
which he had fought so bravely. This battle was fought after his
three years' service had expired, and had he lived he would have
entered the naval service upon the advice of his officers. His
body was taken from the rebel grounds by the union soldiers and
interred by his comrades on the battlefield with the rest of the
union soldiers who fell at the same time. There he sleeps,
waiting the last roll call of the Great Captain.(Taken from
"History of the St. Croix Valley", published in 1909).
HOPE,
Ruth Ann came to Prescott with Henry Hope,
her uncle, and family in 1853. She taught one of the first
schools in Oak Grove township in 1856. She married Daniel Parker,
a merchant of Evansville, Rock county, Wis., where she died in
October, 1874. (Taken from "History of the St.
Croix Valley", published in 1909)
HUDDLESTON, Anthony was born in West Virginia in 1804.
He lived for a part of his life in Ohio and Indiana, and settled
in Ellsworth in 1855, being the first to settle in the town. For
over sixty years he worked at the carpenter's trade. He was a
member of the Dunkard church sixty-two years. He married Susannah
Whetstone in 1826, a resident of Ripley, Ind. (taken from "History
of the St. Croix Valley", published in 1909).
HUSFLOEN, Edward, general
merchant, Lawton, Wis., was born on a farm in Martell township,
Pierce County, Wis., November 5, 1871. He attended the district
schools winters and assisted on the farm summers, remaining on
the home place until 1898, when he came to Lawton, and has since
that time conducted a general store. His trade extends over a
large territory and is constantly increasing. Aside from his
mercantile interests he is secretary and manager of the Lawton Co-operative
Butter and Cheese Company, which was incorporated in 1906. In
1907 this company did a business of $86,589.54. Mr. Husfloen is a
Republican in politics and a member of the United Lutheran church.
He was married first to Mary M. Peterson, daughter of Ole and
Pena Peterson, of Martell Township. She died October 1903,
leaving three children, Myrtle H., Palmer O., who died March 14,
1908, and Edna M. He Married for his second wife, May 2, 1907,
Gerva Olson, daughter of Lars and Randie Olson, late of Martell
township, both being now deceased. The parents of Edward were P.
E. and Marit (Embretson) Husfloen, both natives of Norway, who
came to the United States at an early age. His father settled on
100 acres in Martell township, on section 33, where he still
lives, engaged in general farming, having reached the age of
seventy-one years. His wife died in 1886. (taken from "History
of the St. Croix Valley", published in 1909).
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