Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Hoar, David B. 1822 - 
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 DAVID B. HOAR. The subject of this biography, a prominent and successful farmer and
stock raiser, residing on section 34, Union Grove township, justly bears the
reputation of being one of the most solid and substantial citizens in the northern
part of the county, and his many years of residence there have caused him to be well
known to all the old settlers of that region.

   Mr. Hoar was born in New Brunswick, Albert county, Canada, on May 8, 1822. Ilis
father was originally a tanner, but he lost his feet from the effects of a cold,
mortification setting in, and amputation was necessary, and he then learned and
worked at the tailor’s trade for some time, after j which he was engaged in the
mercantile I business. A few years later he built a vessel, which he sailed for
three years, and then sold out and engaged in farming. He died in 1878, and his wife
in 1883.

   David B. Hoar, our subject, spent his early days in aiding to care for his
parents. In May, 1857, he came to Minnesota, and worked in a steam saw mill in
Wright county until the spring of 1858, when he came to Meeker county, and rented a
farm in what is now Union Grove township, which he worked and raised three crops on.
The last year he bought the right and improvements on 160 acres of land on section
34, where he wintered. The next summer he worked for farmers in Wright county, and
the same fall, on October 23, 1861, he was married to Miss Melissa Bryant, daughter
of Ambrose and Narcissa Bryant. She was born in Kennebec county, Me., July 24, 1842,
and came to Minnesota with her parents in the fall of 1855. At the age of nineteen
she commenced teaching school, and taught one term before and one after marriage.
She was teaching when the outbreak of the Indians occurred. As a full history of
this matter is given in another department of this work, it is unnecessary in this
connection to repeat it. On the Wednesday following the massacre at Acton, Mrs. Hoar
was teaching, when a man came and notified her that the Indians were coming. She at
once sent the children to their homes, and she rode home with the mail carrier. Mr.
Hoar at once started to notify the Good-speeds, Mrs. Goodspeed being a sister of
Mrs. Hoar. They hitched up a yoke of oxen and a horse, and expected to take dinner
at Mr. Hoar’s, but they did not stop to eat it, as the Indians had got sight of him
and were in hot pursuit. Mr. Hoar cocked his gun and backed up to the wagon, waiting
till all were in, and they started, and before they were out of sight the Indians
were plundering the house. The party drove to Manannah, where they were joined by
quite a crowd, and then proceeded to Forest City. Mrs. Hoar, Mrs. Learning and two
children, Mrs. Helen Goodspeed and three children, and Miss Florinda J. Bryant, the
four sisters, went to Monticello. Mr. Hoar remained during the summer and was on
some of the most perilous expeditions, and had many narrow escapes. Hie spent the
ensuing winter at his father-in-law’s, after which he spent about three years in his
native province. In 1866 he returned to Union Grove, and this has since been his
home. He has one of the most desirable farms in the township, owning 320 acres; and
has substantial improvements. All that he possesses is the result of his own
management and industry, and he has accumulated a fine property, notwithstanding the
fact that he has passed through enough hardships and dangers in early days, and loss
of crops in later years, to have discouraged find disheartened the generality of
mankind.

   Mr. and Mrs. Hoar are the parents of the following children— Adelbert, born
December 12,1862; David Alonzo, born September 1, 1864; Elisabeth S., born August
11, 1866; Wesley J., born September 5, 1868; Winogene, born July 11, 1870 ; Irvine,
born January 15,1872; Forest, born April 26, 1873; A. Chesley, born March 23,1875;
Phebe A., born January 13, 1877; Narcissa, born December 30, 1878 ; and Ambrose,
born October 24, 1880. Adelbert is mentioned elsewhere in this work. David Alonzo
runs a stationary engine at Buffalo, Minn. The rest are at home.


Additional Comments:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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