BIOGRAPHIES:  Peter HOCOM, Cumberland, Barron Co., WI

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Peter Hocom, for over thirty years a business man of Cumberland, now deceased,
was  a  substantial,  solid  citizen,  who  did  his  duty as he saw it, and was
faithful to every demand that life made upon him. He was born in Sweden and came
to the United States in 1871. At first he lived in Centralia, Wood County, Wis.,
where he changed his surname from Hokenson to Hocom for greater convenience.  For
some  years he was a logger and raftsman, sometimes taking rafts as far south as
St. Louis. For a while he was also in business in Centralia. In 1883 he moved to
Balsam  Lake,  in  Polk  County.  From there, in 1886, he came to Cumberland and
opened  a  meat  market which he successfully conducted until his death Feb. 11,
1918. His wife is still living in Cumberland at the age of 64. He was married at
Cumberland  to Christina Hanson, a native of Norway. They had two children:  May,
a  trained  nurse  in  Chicago, and Frank W. who now operates the market. By his
first  marriage  to  Amelia  Anderson  he had two children: W. L., a dentist of
Webster,  Wis.,  and Daisy, wife of Hans Monstad of Los Angeles, Calif.

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


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