BIOGRAPHIES:  Forest H. HILLARD, Arkansaw, Pepin Co., WI

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FOREST H. HILLARD, druggist, Arkansaw. Came from East Troy, Wis., to
Arkansaw, May 23, 1871, and commenced business as druggist in 1872,
under the firm name of Hillard & Rounds. He has kept a strictly
temperance drug store, the first one in all this section of country,
and for several years the only one. He was born in East Troy, Walworth
Co., Wis., Dec. 28, 1848. His parents were among the earliest settlers,
having settled there in 1837. Early in 1865, when just past sixteen
years of age, he enlisted in the army, but it was so near the close of
the war, that he did not see much service. When eighteen years old, he
joined the Wisconsin National Guards, the "Badger Battery" of Walworth
County, and he helped to organize the Pepin County Guards, at Arkansaw,
July 19, 1879. He went into the company as fourth sergeant, and now is
second lieutenant. He was one of the charter members of Waterville
Lodge, No. 305, I . 0. O. F., organized April 19, 1884, also of Good
Templar, Arkansaw Lodge, No. 166, organized Dec. 9, 1876, also a member
of the Young Men's Literary Association at Arkansaw. He was married,
June 4, 1873, to Miss Kate Rounds, daughter of J. H. Rounds,
Superintendent ot Schools of Pepin County. They have two children,
Archie H. and Mary A.

-Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 705


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