Lacrosse-Fond Du Lac County WI Archives Biographies.....Hobbs, John 1832 - 
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JOHN HOBBS, farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Mindoro; born in England in 1832. His 
parents emigrated to New York when he was a child. The family resided for a 
time in Albany, removed thence to Ohio; thence to Fort Malden, Canada; thence 
to Fond du Lac Co., where they lived nine years. Mr. Hobbs came to La Crosse 
Co. in the fall of 1851, and settled on the farm where he now lives. He 
enlisted Sept. 18, 1861, in the 2d W. V. C.; served till the close of the war; 
married Mary Newcomb, born in Pennsylvania. They have eleven children - four 
sons and seven daughters. Mr. Hobbs' farm contains 240 acres.

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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 851 - 852.

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