BIOGRAPHIES:  Frank STODDARD, Barron Township, Barron Co., WI

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Transcribed by Kate Wilson. 
Edited and submitted by  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  5 January 2004
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Frank Stoddard, a well known and prosperous farmer of Section 6, Barron
Township, is one of the progressive and energetic men of the community, and
is taking his share as a good citizen in everything that has for its object
the general welfare of the county. He was born in Richland County,
Wisconsin, Dec. 9, 1862, the son of Valentine and Arminda (Sippy) Stoddard,
grandson of Joseph Sippy, M. D., and great-grandson of Joseph Sippy. Joseph
Sippy, the founder of the family in America, came to this country from
France with General LaFayette during the Revolutionary War and stayed to
establish his fortunes in the independence he had assisted. Joseph Sippy,
M. D., came to Richland County, Wisconsin, in 1852, bought 240 acres of
land in Big Willow Valley at $2.40 an acre, founded the town of Neptune,
and followed his profession as a physician until his death in 1870.
Valentine Stoddard was born in Litchfield, Conn., July 25, 1810, the son of
Obediah Stoddard. When he was five years of age, the family moved to
Ontario County, in Northern New York State, the tradition being that they
made the distance of 300 miles in 31 days, traveling with four ox teams and
a long sled in the dead of winter. There Valentine Stoddard was reared. In
middle age he came West and located in Richland County, this state. He was
twice married. By Johanna Davison he had eight children: Jane, George,
John, Harlow, of Richland County; Jesse, of Monroe County, this state;
Jennette, Emaline and Ann. By Arminda R. (Sippy) McLeod, widow of George
McLeod, he had one son, Frank, now of Barron County. By her previous
marriage, Arminda R. Sippy McLeod Stoddard had one daughter, Laura P.
McLeod, wife of Munroe Slater, of Barron City. Frank Stoddard received his
education in the common schools, of Richland County and remained with his
parents until long after attaining the years of manhood. For some years he
was engaged in the business of wagon making and general repairing in Twin
Bluffs, Wis. In 1909 he rented this business, and acquired a fruit farm in
Willow Township, in the same county. He also opened a store on this farm.
He owned this farm until 1918. In the meantime, however, in 1915, he rented
the farm and closed out the store and came to Barron County and bought 80
acres of wild land in Section 6, Barron Township, five miles northwest of
Barron City. He cleared this land, erected suitable buildings, purchased
the proper equipment, and now carries on general farming and dairying. Mr.
Stoddard was married Oct. 12, 1895, to Amy M. Hapgood, daughter of Frank
and Harriett M. (Foster) Hapgood, of Twin Bluffs, Richland County, Wis.,
the former of whom died there July 1, 1903, and the latter of whom died at
Richland Center, Richland County, Wis., Oct. 5, 1914. Mrs. Stoddard had one
brother, Elmer, who was born Feb. 15, 1874, and died Dec. 1, 1916. Mr. and
Mrs. Stoddard have a daughter, Maude Marie. She was born Oct. 16, 1897, at
Twin Bluffs, Wis., graduated from Richland Center (Wis.) High School and
from the Barron County Training School at Rice Lake, and is now a
successful teacher, having had charge of schools in Ellis County, Oklahoma,
Logan County, North Dakota, and Barron County, Wisconsin. The family faith
is that of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 142-143.

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