BIOGRAPHIES:  Hartley D. STOCKMAN, Woodville, St. Croix County, WI

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Hartley D. Stockman, lumberman, Woodville, St. Croix county, was born in 
Penobscot county, Me., February 8, 1836, a son of David and Amelia (Dale) 
Stockman, who were born in the same county in Maine.  His father, a farmer, 
was born in 1808, and died aged sixty-nine years.  His mother was born in 
1809 and died aged forty-five years.  Mr. Stockman received his education 
in Maine, and at the age of twenty-two engaged in lumbering in Lowell, Mass.  
Six months later he came west and settle at Stevens Point.  Here he continued 
dealing in lumber, jobbing and contracting, and has been so engaged more or 
less ever since.  He settled in Woodville in 1878, and since that time has 
paid considerable attention to farming, lumbering, however, having been his 
chief occupation.  In 1860 he married Mary Fletcher, who was born in Wyoming 
county, Pa., in 1845.  Her parents were Campbell and Nancy (Angle) Fletcher, 
natives respectively of Wyoming county and Bradford, Pa.  Her father was 
also a lumberman.  Five children have blessed this union: Fred E., Arthur D., 
Albert E., Wilber, deceased, and Bert G., at home. Mr. and Mrs. Stockman are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and Mr. Stockman is a prohibitionist 
with republican tendencies.  He was twice drafted for the Civil war, but the 
first time he had just been burned out of house and home, so he paid his 
substitute, and went into Iowa to earn means whereby to build again a home 
for his wife and children.  He was taken sick there, and while confined to 
his bed was again drafted.  He showed his papers of former draft, however, 
and was released.  He was postmaster at Woodville from 1881 to 1888.  He has 
a beautiful little home in Woodville on the top of the cliff overlooking the 
town, where he and his wife hope to spend the rest of their days in peace and 
quiet. 

--Taken from "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley
Wisconsin" Including A General Historical Sketch of the Chippewa Valley;
Ancestral Records of Leading Families; Biographies of Representative 
Citizens, Past and Present; and Portraits of Prominent Men.  Edited by
George Forrester.  Chicago, Illinois: A. Warner, Publisher.  1891-92
Page 860