Biographical Sketch of Isaac Hoskinson, Laclede County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Isaac Hoskinson, president of the Lebanon Woolen Manufacturing Co., and
son of Isaac, Sr., and Fannie (Thrapp) Hoskinson, was born in Wabash
county, Mount Carmel, Illinois, February 23, 1829.  The parents were
natives of Virginia and Newark, Ohio, respectively.  The Hoskinson
family were of Scotch origin, and were early settlers of Virginia.
Isaac Hoskinson, Sr., immigrated to Lincoln county, Ohio, at quite an
early date, and here he married Miss Thrapp.  In 1821 he moved to 
Wabash county, Ill., and here resided until his death, which occurred
in the spring of 1830.  He was a wheel wright by trade, and followed
the same all his life.  The mother died at Mount Carmel in 1864.  They
were the parents of six children, two now living: Gamaliel, who resid-
es in Boulder, Colo., and Isaac, Jr.  The latter was brought up in
Mount Carmel, where he was educated.  He engaged in merchandising at
the age of thirteen years, and in 1854 he went to Graysville, Ill.,
where he was engaged in merchandising until 1856.  He then went to
Clay county, Ill., and here remained until 1865, when he went to Rolla,
Mo.  In 1869 he left Rolla and came to Lebanon, where he engaged in
merchandising with Hugh McCoin, under the firm title of Hoskinson &
McCoin, until 1878.  Previous to this, in 1877, the woolen mill was
erected, and in this Mr. Hoskinson became a stockholder, and has been
its president since its erection.  He is also engaged in the real 
estate business quite extensively, in buying and selling land, both 
wild and improved.  He is interested in about 7,000 acres of land in
Laclede county, of which the most is in a wild state.  Mr. Hoskinson
was elected probate judge of Laclede county in 1872, serving four 
years; has held several minor offices, and takes a great interest in
religious and educational matters.  He is a member of the Masonic fra-
ternity, Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery.  He was married, in 1854,
to Miss Jane M. Lutes, a native of York, Penn., and to them was born
one child, Myrtle, wife of James T. Moore, representative of Laclede
county.

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