BIOGRAPHIES: Bert J. HART, Turtle Lake, Barron County, WI

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Bert J. Hart, a well-known resident of Turtle Lake, liveryman, farmer and
public official, was born in Washburn County, Wis., March 23, 1872, son of
James and Louisa (Everett) Hart, natives respectively of Maine and Canada,
who came to Wisconsin in 1876, and settled in Polk County, where he took a
homestead of 40 acres, cleared and broke the land, erected a set of
buildings, and lived there for many years. The mother died in 1888. The
father in his latter life went to Oregon where he died in 1907. Bert J. was
reared on the farm in Polk County, over the Barron County line, and
attended school in Turtle Lake. At the tender age of fourteen he started
out for himself, spending his winters in the logging woods and his summers
on farms. In 1893 he purchased a livery business at Turtle Lake, and this
he has since operated, having in 1901 erected a good barn, 46 by 100 feet.
For thirty-one years he operated an eighty-acre farm in Polk County, just
west of Turtle Lake. He served for seventeen years as constable of Turtle
Lake and for one year was village marshal. Mr. Hart was married Sept. 15,
1896, to Susia Gaffney, who was born in Canada, daughter of James and
Elizabeth Gaffney. Mr. and Mrs. Hart have had eight children: Byrel
(deceased), Cecil, Percy, Opal, Dola, Dotsie (deceased), Lee and Gertrude
(deceased).

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pg. 161.