Bio of Hart, Michael (b.1839) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Hart, Michael, farmer, Chester, was born in Gravenmacher, Luxemburg, June
22, 1839. When sixteen years old, his leg was broken by a wagon, and he
has always been lame since. From nineteen to twenty-seven he was employed
in operating a stationary engine. (His brother, Marcus, six years his
elder, came to Erie county, New York, in 1856. Returning to Europe in the
fall of 1865, he was married on January 1, 1866, to Elizabeth Olding, born
in the same village. When he returned to New York he was accompanied by
the subject of this sketch. In 1869 he came to Chester and bought one
hundred and twenty acres of land on sections 19 and 20, where he died
March 16, 1872. He left two children, John M., born 1867, and Matthias J.,
1869, now with their mother.) After spending some years in farm labor in
New York, Michael Hart stayed four years at Pewaukee, Wisconsin, where run
an engine most of the time. He came to Chester in 1870, and assisted his
brother in the operation of the farm, in which he owned an interest. In
1873 he married his brother's widow, and they have just added eighty acres
to the farm by purchase. When Mr. Hart arrived in America he was thirty
dollars in debt, and has secured a competence by industry and frugality.
He has two children, Annie, born 1875, and William, 1877. All the family
are members of Belle Chester church.
War of 1812
War of Rebellion (Civil War)