BIOGRAPHIES:  Royal B. HART, Cumberland, Barron Co., WI

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Royal B. Hart, B. L., LL. B., journalist and attorney of Cumberland, editor
of the Cumberland Advocate, chairman of the Barron County board at the
present time, and member since 1907, president of the Barron County Council
of Defense during the World War, third municipal judge of Barron County
since 1917, mayor of Cumberland from 1916 to 1920, city attorney of
Cumberland from 1911 to 1914, and an active, useful citizen who has served
in many other public capacities, was born in Oakland, Jefferson County,
Wis., June 8, 1866, son of Orlando P. and Elizabeth (Eustis) Hart. He was
reared in that county and there attended public school until he was
fourteen years of age. Then he was taken to Ft. Atkinson, Wis., where he
continued his education and where he was graduated from the high school in
1885. Then for one year he taught rural school in Nebraska. In 1886 he
entered the University of Wisconsin and was graduated with his degree in
letters in 1890. Then for one year he was principal of schools at Juda,
Wis., and one year principal of schools at Cadott, Wis. In 1892 he entered
the law department of the University of Wisconsin and was graduated with
his degree in law in 1894. Then for eight years he was proofreader in the
chambers of the Supreme Court at Madison. In the spring of 1902 he opened
an office in Shell Lake, in Washburn County. He came to Cumberland in 1905
and here continued practice. In 1915 he became editor of the Cumberland
Advocate. This paper is owned by a corporation, all the stock being held in
the Hart family. Fraternally, Mr. Hart has been through the chairs of the
local Masonic order and he is likewise a member of the Woodmen. Mr. Hart
was married June 26, 1894, to Nellie F. Worrell, of Durand, Wis., daughter
of Thomas and Bridget (Kelley) Worrell, both natives of Ireland, and early
settlers of Bear Creek Valley in Buffalo County, Wis. Both are now dead.
They had seven children: Joseph, Thomas, Julia, Jennie, Mary, John and
Nellie F. Mr. and Mrs. Hart have two children: Irene E. and William E.
Irene E. graduated from the Cumberland High School in 1914 and from the
University of Wisconsin in 1918. She is now a teacher in the Cumberland
High School. William E. graduated from the Cumberland High School in 1917
and is now attending the University of Wisconsin. For twenty-one months
during the war he served in the Medical Corps most of the time at Camp
Hancock, Augusta, Ga. Orlando P. Hart was born in Oneida County, New York,
came to Wisconsin in 1848, and farmed in Jefferson County until his death
in 1873. His wife, Elizabeth Eustis, was born in Massachusetts and died in
1903 at the good old age of 81 years. They had one son, Royal B. By a
previous marriage to Florinda Goodrich he had six children. All grew to
maturity and two of the sons, Frank and Henry, served in the Civil War.
Only one of the six is now living. She is Ina, the widow of George H.
Perry, whose sons operate a farm their grandfather preempted in Oakland,
Jefferson County, Wis. Mrs. Elizabeth Hart, by her previous marriage to
John Barger, of Saugamore County, Illinois, had four children, of whom
there are now living two, William M. Barger, of Hebron, Neb., and Frances,
the widow of H. C. Allen, also of Hebron.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 294-295.


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