Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Hossfeld, Richard February 29, 1844 - 
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RICHARD HOSSFELD, proprietor of Nutting House, situated on Sec. 4; was born in 
Saxony, Germany, Feb. 29, 1844, and came to Davenport, Iowa, in 1850; remained 
here two years, and then moved to Minnesota, near Winona, on a farm, for 
thirteen years; he then left home, and worked in a brewery three years, when 
he came to Wisconsin, and engaged in the butcher business three years; he then 
went to Chicago in the same business, and back to La Crosse City and to North 
La Crosse in the market there, until 1874, when he bought 95 acres of land, 
and then in 1880 took the hotel. His wife Anna, a daughter of Abel and 
Clarinda Nutting, was born in Maine, June 31, 1850; came to Wisconsin in 1855; 
her father died in November, 1875, and her mother on May 17, 1880. They were 
married in May, 1870, and have four children - Ida, born Nov. 1, 1871; Lizzie, 
born Jan. 2, 1874; Gustavus, born July 10, 1876; and Frank Adelbert, born Dec. 
11, 1879. He is a Democrat and Lutheran; is a member of the North La Crosse 
lodge of the I. O. O. F., and is Vice Grand.

Additional Comments:
From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 814.

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