Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Hale, Luke July 22, 1831 - 
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LUKE HALE, farmer, Sec. 21; P. O. Onalaska; was born at Brandon, Vt., July 22, 
1831; learned the trade of shoemaker at the age of 18; then removed to Ft. 
Wayne, Ind.; then to Ohio, then to Pennsylvania, where he worked at his trade; 
then to Wisconsin in 1858; now owns 240 acres, and made all the improvements 
of a good house and barn; enlisted in Co. D, 14th W. V. I., in 1864; mustered 
out at Madison, in 1865; was at Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Nashville, and 
siege of Mobile. His wife, Rieka Simerling, born in Germany March 22, 1849; 
married Oct. 24, 1868. They have five children - Frederick, born, 1869, died, 
1869; Franklin, born April 1, 1871, died June, 1871; infant son, deceased; 
Anna, born 1873; Clara, born June 29, 1880.

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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 813.

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