Biographical Sketch of W. D. Hoar - Andrew County, Missouri

>From "History of Missouri, Andrew & DeKalb County" Published 1888

************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mofiles.htm
************************************************

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

**********************************************************************

W. D. Hoar, the subject of the following sketch, was born in Lancaster
County, PA., February 4, 1830.  He is the youngest child of three sons
and two daughters born to the marriage of William Hoar and Jane Norton.
The former was a native of Pennsylvania, and was of English lineage.
He was a blacksmith by vocation, and possessed energy and competency.
He was respected by all who knew him.  The latter was also a native of
Pennsylvania.  W.D. was reared in Bird-in-hand Village.  His education
was begun in the public schools of Lancaster County, PA., and completed
in the Millersville State Normal School, situated in that county.  He
however, lacked one year of graduation at the Normal when the Civil War
broke out, but patriotic and true to his country, he enlisted in what
was known as Capt. Nevin's Independent Battery I of Light Artillery as
a private, on June 26, 1863.  He was mustered out of the service at
Philadelphia, June 26, 1865.  At the close of the war he went to
Missouri, arriving at St. Louis in August of 1865, and after a short
prospecting tour throughout the State, located at Savannah.  Here he
resumed the profession of teaching, which he had begun when he was
seventeen years of age, teaching and attending school alternately until
his enlistment in the army.  Besides teaching several years in Andrew
County, he has served two years as county superintendent.  For the last
few years of his life he has devoted considerable attention to farming,
and owns a farm of eighty acres in Platte Township.  In November, 1886,
he was elected by the Republican party to the office of county 
Representative.  In 1868, he was united in marriage with Mary E. Hobson,
daughter of John and Jane (Phillips) Hobson.  Two sons and one daughter
have blessed their marriage.