BIOGRAPHIES:  Richard G HOCKING, Oak Grove Township, Barron County, WI

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Richard G. Hocking, a modern farmer of section 4, Oak Grove Township, was
born at Fonda, Pocahontas County, Iowa, Nov. 6, 1881, the son of Hugh and
Millie (Willard) Hocking, natives respectively of England and Illinois.
Hugh Hocking came to America as a boy with his parents in 1839 and located
with them in Grant County, this state, where he remained for thirty years.
As a young man he learned the trades of carpenter and wagon maker,
vocations which he followed throughout his adult years. In 1869 he went to
Wagner, South Dakota, and worked at his trade until 1916 when he took up
his home with his son, the subject of this sketch. His wife died March 11,
1920. In the family there were ten children: Charles (deceased), Hugh
(deceased), George (deceased), Nathan (deceasd), John, of Turtle Lake, this
county; May, wife of Edward Hyde, of South Dakota; Olive, of Wagner, South
Dakota; Richard G., of Oak Grove Township, this county; Theodore, of Lynch,
Nebraska; and Frank, who lives with Richard G. Richard G. received his
education in his native town, and has devoted his life to farming since
early youth. From Iowa in 1900 he first came to Barron County. Later he
went to South Dakota and in 1913 from that state to Nebraska, and rented a
farm which he operated for five years. In 1918 he bought his present farm
of eighty acres. Here he carries on general farming and dairying, his
cattle being of the Holstein breed. Mr. Hocking was married April 16, 1904,
to Lucille Guibord, born in Oak Grove, Barron County, in 1888, the daughter
of Tusant Guibord. This union has been blessed with one child: Bernice,
born Jan. 11, 1907.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pg. 356.