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HERMAN, JOHN M., proprie- tor of Herman's brewery, Boone; is a native of Germany, and was born on the first day of January, 1831, and lived there until sixteen years of age, and in 1841 emigrated, with his parents, to the United States, and settled in Akron, Ohio, and learned the trade of brewing; in 1850 he went overland to Cali- fornia, being one hundred and five days crossing the plains; he remain- ed in California three years engaged in mining and working a ranche and then returned home; he then settled in Wisconsin and lived three years at Madison and eight years in Mon- roe; in 1866 he came to this connty and engaged in his present business, first on a small scale, but has added from time to time as demands have been made on him for his products; Mr. Herman is a good illustration of what an industrions man can ac- complish by giving his time mainly to one subject and bending his ener- gies in one direction; as a business ' man he is endowed with rare good sense, and his character as such may be inferred from the success that has attended his efforts; he married Miss Anna Spring in 1861; she was
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a native of Switzerland; their family consists of five children: Emma, Henry, Anna, John and Otto; Mr. H. owns in addition to his brewery abont 500 acres of land.
HESS, D. F., manufacturer of pottery, Boonesboro; was born in Germany April 10th, 1846, and when seven years of age his parents emigrated to America, locating in Philadelphia, where he was raised; in childhood Mr. Hess had good ed- ucational advantages in the common schools, supplemented by a course of study at the Pennsylvania Academy, attending there for three terms; when seventeen years of age he chose the mercantile life as his occupation and entered into business in Harris- burg and engaged in the general merchandise business; he remained there until 1866 when he came to his present location; he there en- gaged in his business for three years, returning to Pennsylvania and engaged in the furniture busi- ness; he returned here in 1872 and entered into his present business un- der the firm name of Burley, Hess & Starr; in the fall of 1879 he suc- ceeded to the sole proprietorship and is doing a large business; Jan- uary 19th, 1869, he married Miss F. A. Richards, who was born in Ohio; they have two children: Rosa and Mabel; have lost one daughter: Bertha.
HILE, H., dealer in groceries and provisions, Boone; is a native of Germany, and was born December 25th, 1835; he learned the trade of weaver, which he followed as an oc- cupation until he emigrated to the United States in 1857; he settled first in Baltimore, Maryland, and for two years was employed in a su- gar refinery; in 1859 he removed to Cedar Rapids and engaged in the soap and candle business; in 1865 he came to Boone and was present at the lot sale and purchased his present business property and com-
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menced selling groceries and pro- visions and he is the pioneer dealer in this line in the city of Boone; he owns a farm of 80 acres; he was married in 1860 to Miss Barbara Otterham, a native of Germany; they have two children: Katie, aged 18 years, and Otto, aged 16 years.
HILLS, M. A., machinist, Boone; was born April 27th, 1837, in Erie county, Pennsylvania, where he was raised and learned his trade; in 1853 he came West, locating in Marshall- town, where he resided until he en- tered the army, enlisting the 7th day of May, 1861, in company E, Third Iowa infantry, being the sec- ond three year .regiment raised in the State; at the expiration of his term of service, he was honorably mustered out as second lieutenant of his company; shortly afterward he returned to Pennsylvania, where he remained for six years, and in 1872 he came to Boone, and is now en- gaged in manufacturing engines and running a general repair shop; in March, 1880, he was elected a member of the town council of Boone; he was married February 26th, 1864, to Miss E. J. Rousseau; they have three children: Mettie M., Etta E. and Alice A.
HINDMAN, D. R., of the firm of Hindman and Hall, attorneys, Boone; is a native of New York, and was born in Otsego county, New York, in 1834, and was prin- cipally raised in Oneida county; he was educated at Whitestown Semi- nary, and received his professional education at the Clinton Law School; in 1860 he removed to Port- age City, Wisconsin, and engaged in his chosen avocation; he entered the army during the war, first in the ninety day service and then enlisted in the Nineteenth Wisconsin infan- try as a private, and passed through the several grades of promotion and was mustered out as captain; after
the close of the war he came to Boone county in 1866, and has ta- ken a front rank with the attorneys of central Iowa, and has a full share of the business of the county in his line; he was married in 1866 to Miss Jennie E. Ritchey, a native of Tippecanoe county, Indiana.
HODGES, I. B., of the firm of Hodges & Andrews, dealers in hard- ware, stoves, tinware and agricul- tual implements, Boone; was born in Cattaraugus county, New York, on the 8th day of November, 1839, and when three years of age accom- panied his parents to Kane county, Illinois, and thence to Clayton county, Iowa, in 1854; he was raised with a mercantile experience in the the hardware business, and came to this county in 1864, and engaged in business in Boonesboro, and may be numbered with the old established houses of Boone county; he mar- ried Miss Josephine Brown, daugh- ter of the Hon. J. A. Brown, of Pennsylvania; their family consists of two sons: Addison and Henry.
HODGES, HENRY D., farmer; Sec. 8; P. O. Boone; was born in New York April 11, 1841, and when very young mnoved to Illinois with his parents, and located in Kane county; in 1855 he came to Clayton connty, this State, and in 1864 went into the grocery business in Clayton City, and continued the same about one year; in April, 1865, he enlisted in company I, Forty-eighth Wiscon- sin infantry, and served until the close of the war; he was acciden- tally wounded by a pistol shot in the hands of a drunken soldier, the ball passing very close to the jugular vein; on his return home he opened a hardware store which he continned abont two years, and again engaged in the grocery business in Clayton; in two years he came here and en- gaged in farming, and owns eighty acres of land; was married October
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13, 1867, to Miss Lncy Jerome, a native of Illinois; they have three children : Alice, James and Wil. liam.
HOLMES, A. J., of the firm of Holmes & Reynolds, one of the leading attorneys of Boone; was born in Wayne county, Ohio, on the 2d day of March, 1843, and was raised there until twelve years of age, and then accompanied his pa- rents to Palmyra, Wisconsin; in 1862 he entered the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin infantry as a private, and was mustered out to accept a com- mission in the Thirty-seventh Wis- consin; he saw hard service and was in many severe battles, and was wounded at Stone river ; he was ta- ken prisoner at the blowing up of the mine at Petersburg, and confined in various Sonthern prisons for eight months; after he was mns- tered out of the United States ser - vice he returned to Wisconsin and attended school at Milton College, and pursued his legal studies at the State University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and was graduated in 1867, and came to Boone county the same year and was the first to open an office in the then new town of Boone; he started in life with a thorough preparation and a laudable ambition to succeed, and in this he has not been disappointed; he is as- sociated in business with L. W. Reynolds, under the firm name of Holmes & Reynolds; he married Miss Emma J. Folsom in 1878.
HORNSTEIN, J., editor and newspaper publisher; was born in Brooklyn, New York, May 8, 1847; when seven years of age removed to Washington county, Wisconsin, and while yet a mere youth learned the art preservative of arts in the office of the Washington County "Demo- crat"; when nineteen years old he went to New York City where he followed his trade of printing; while at work in the Empire City
that metropolis was under the man- agement of Boss Tweed and much of the printing of the city govern- ment was done in the office with which he was connected; in 1870 Mr. Hornstein came to Boone and engaged in the newspaper business, first as part owner and afterward as sole owner, proprietor and editor of the Boone County "Democrat"; Boone county had been Democratic from the first up to 1867, and from that time on was very equally di- vided politically; nevertheless, up to the time Mr. Hornstein came to the county Democratic newspapers had met with poor success and their existence was very uncertain and precarious; with his connection with the "Democrat" that journal became a permanent institution and since that time has been a paper of ability and influence; Mr. Hornstein is not a college graduate, and yet in a true sense he is a classical student; his private library is one of the best in the county, and among the volumes found therein are some of the choicest classical works both in prose and poetry; he is a politician of good judgment and rare sagacity and the successes which his party has recently achieved in the county are to a great measure due to his adroit management; although pos- sessed of fine social qualities and arrived at the age when a man is re- garded as eligible to matrimony Mr. Hornstein is unmarried.
HORNSTEIN, E., jeweler and dealer in silverware, Boone; was born in Brooklyn, New York, on the 6th day of August, 1854; when he was an infant was taken by his parents to Wisconsin, where he was raised with a mercantile experience; he learned the trade of watch-maker and jeweler and has since followed it as an occupation; in 1871 he went to Michigan and worked at his busi- ness near Marquette, remaining there until 1876 when he came to
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this county; starting comparatively without means he has been the architect of his own fortune, and stands prominent among the self- made young men of the county, and thus far in life his career has been both honorable and successful. and he is a good illustration of what economy and perseverance can ac- complish.
HOOVER, GEO. W., son of Geo. W. Hoover and Eliza, nee Carlisle; was born in Boonesboro. in 1858, and for five years has been employed in the real estate and abstract office of A. J. Barkley; his parents were early settlers of the county, and his father built the first mill in the county, mention of which is made in another part of this work.
HOURIGAN, C., farmer; Sec. 25; P. O. Boone; was born Novem- ber 12, 1833, in Ireland, county Limerick, and was raised on a farm; when nineteen years of age, his pa- rents having died, he came to the United States, landing in New York; he located in Essex county that State and engaged in farming there for about five years and then went to Wisconsin and there farmed; at the end of three years he went to Memphis where he worked in the gas works; in 1861 he was drafted into the rebel army and served about eighteen months, and at the second day of the battle of Shiloh came to the Union army and was employed as a teamster, serving in that capacity until the close of the war; he then returned to New York and in 1868 came to Iowa and lo-
cated where he now lives, owning forty acres of land; was married Angust 10, 1865, to Miss Anna Maghar, a native of county Tipper- ary, Ireland; they have no children. HOYER, ISAAC R., nursery- man, Boonesboro; was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, Febru- ary 22, 1831, and resided there until six years of age, when with
his parents he removed to Ohio, settling in Wayne county, and was there raised; in the spring of 1857 he came to this county and located three miles west of Boones- boro; he was married March 30, 1857, to Elizabeth Huntsberger, a native of Cumberland county, Penn- sylvania; she was born December 28, 1837; in 1861 Mr. Hoyer re- moved to Boonesboro and engaged in the harness business which he followed until the spring of 1870, when he sold out and since then has been engaged in the nursery busi- ness; has a fine nursery of nearly nine acres adjoining Boonesboro on the west.
HUGHES, GEO. T., farmer; Sec. 12; P. O. Boone; was born in Oneida county New York, June 2, 1860, and when nine years of age came with his parents to this coun- ty and located where he now lives; his father, James T. Hughes, was born April 3, 1834; married March 26, 1858, Miss Emma O. Kent; he died August 13, 1876, leaving a family of seven children, of which our subject was the oldest; he has followed teaching since 1875, and in it has been successful; since his father's death, he, with the aid of his mother, has carried on the farm the same as before, and now owns 160 acres of land; Mr. Hughes is yeta young man, but one of promise, whatever his vocation in life may be.
HUGHES, CAPT. J. A., Boone; was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1823, and was raised there on a farm; in 1853 he removed to Rochelle, Ogle county, Illinois, and while living in this place his fellow-citizens showed their confi- dence in him as a man by electing him sheriff of the county; he enlis- ted in the Forty-sixth Illinois infan- try during the late war, and was commissioned Captain of company H; he served three years, and after the close of the war he came to
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Boone county, which has since been his home, and engaged in farming and the stock business; he married Miss Eliza A. Adams, of Middle- town, Pennsylvania, in 1850; they have one son: Robert.
HULL, JAMES, jailer of Boone county; was born January 22, 1822, and is a native of Lincoln county, Ohio; his parents moved to Clay county, Indiana, in 1837, and in 1844 to Jefferson county this State, and May 14, 1846 to this county; they were the first family that set- tled in the county, a single man, Charles Gaston, being the only set- tler; Mr. Hull and his family have passed all the hardships incident to a pioneer life, having had to go to Bentonsport and other distant places to mill; on one of these milling trips to Bonaparte he was gone eighteen days, and during this time the families within fifteen miles had consumed all the corn on hand in making hominy, and there was not enough flour within reach to make even a biscuit; in the mean time Jacob Crooks started for mill and providentially met a man, living near Polk City, who was just re- turning from mill with meal; Mr. Crooks obtained a share of the grist and returned to relieve the settlers of Boone from actual suffering; Mr. Hull has devoted his life to farming and followed it as an avocation until 1879, when he was appointed jailer; he was married June 23, 1839, to Miss Catharine Crooks, a native of Knox county, Indiana; she was then a girl not fifteen years of age, and has, with him, passed through all the vicissitudes of early pioneer life; we are much indebted to this lady whose memory is most clear, for many interesting incidents con- nected with the early history of this county; they have four children: Elizabeth (wife of A. Beach), George C., Sarah M. (wife of H. D. Nutt), and Lucrecia, (wife of Isaac
Nutt); have lost two: Mary J. (died September 10, 1846), and Han- nah (died February 16, 1845).
HULL, SAMUEL A., farmer and stock raiser; Sec. 34; P. O. Boone; was born in Licking county, Ohio, July 22, 1823, and in 1827 came to Sullivan county, Indiana; six years later he removed to Greene county, same State, but only remained about six months and then removed to Clay county; after one year he re- moved to Putnam county, and re- mained there the same length of time, then returning to Clay county; in 1841 he came to this State and settled in Jefferson county, where he lived until the spring of 1848; May 13th of that year he came to this county and located where he now resides, taking a claim, but at that time it was not sectionized; he is one of the oldest settlers of the county, there being but eight or ten families when he came; he was at the first election held in the county, when they had to make their returns to Polk; he has been closely inden- tified with the interests here; has held the office of justice of the peace in his township, etc .; April 22, 1848, he married Miss Rachel Prather, a native of Indiana; they have a family of nine children liv- ing: Miranda (wife of Alex. Myers), Commodore W., Julia (wife of Clark Dolly), Ella (wife of John Boyd), John Q., Asbury, Benton, Hayden and Maud; they have lost three; he was a fine farm of 190 acres of land.
HULL, JOHN A., Boone; among the professional pioneers of Boone county there are none more famil- iarly known in this and adjoining counties than John A. Hull; he is a member of the numerous Hull fam- ily before referred to in the body of this work, but owing to the promi- nent position which he has occupied at the bar for more than a. quarter of a century and the important part
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he has played in the politics of the county and congressional district, it will be proper to give the following additional facts: he was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1831; grad- nated at Asbury University at Green- castle, Indiana, in the scientific de- partment; studied law, was admit- ted to the bar, and engaged in the practice of his profession at Madison, Tennessee; read law four months at Terre Haute with Colonel R. N. Thompson; he emigrated to Boone county in 1854, and immediately opened a law office in Boonesboro; the town was then yet in its infancy, but, as is usually the case in Western towns, the bar was already well rep- resented, and Mr. Hull had for com- petitors some of the oldest lawyers then in the State; as far as the prac- tice of his profession was concerned, Mr. Hull was quite surprised to find that there was a difference between the theory and practice, and notwith- standing the fact that he had previ- ously received a thorough prepara- tion and had passed a most credit- able examination before being ad- mitted, he found that there still re- mained much to learn; however, he readily adapted himself to his new surroundings, and from the first pro- cured a large share of the legal bus- iness; the prominent position which he first took at the bar, Mr. Hull has kept till the present time, and he is still regarded as one of the leading lawyers of the county; Mr. Hull is no fanatic, but has always proved himself to be possessed of positive convictions; during the heated cam- paign of 1854, when the chief ques- tion before the people of the State was the adoption of the prohibitory liquor law, he took a decided stand in favor of that measure, and it was largely due to his influence that the law was endorsed by a majority of the voters of this political district; in politics he has always been a prominent Democrat, of the Jeffer-
sonian and Jacksonian school; it is partly on this account and partly from the fact that he has not been an aspirant for office, that Mr. Hull has never been elected to those posi- tions which his integrity and experi- ence have so well fitted him to oc- cupy; though not an old man, hard work and the cares of business are beginning to tell on his constitution, and he contemplates at no far dis- tant day to abandon the practice of his profession and give his entire at- tention to the cultivation of his farm, located near the city of Boone; he was raised a farmer's boy, and in re- turning to that occupation he will gratify a long-cherished desire and will be doing what hundreds of other professional men have done before him; he married Miss M. E. Wear, August 2, 1864; she was a native of Tennessee; they have a family of six children: Allie, Mary (now Mrs. Hughes), Lillie, Nannie, Theresa and John, Jr .; lost two: Samuel and Frank.
HUNTINGTON, ROBERT M., physician and surgeon, Boone; was born at North Bloomfield, Ontario county, New York, June 3d. 1831, and is the second surviving son of Sidney Huntington and Maria (nee Holmes), and a direct descendant of Simon and Margaret (nee Baret) Huntington, of Norwich, England, who removed with his family to this country in 1639 or 1640, settling at Roxbury, Massachusetts; in the early years of his life he worked summers and attended school win- ters; the winter of 1850-51 he at- tended school at Batavia, New York; was called home early in January owing to the illness of his father, who died on the 11th of that month, 1851, aged sixty-five; this left him alone with his mother and a younger brother, his oldest brother being married with a family of his own; his youngest brother soon after ap- prenticed himself to the machinist's
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trade at Rochester, New York: he spent the year 1854 in New York City; in the fall of 1855 he had every arrangement made to attend college at Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and College, Lima, New York, but snd- den illness of his mother prevented the consummation of his plans to go through an extended course in col- lege and eventuated in his entering the office of Dr. G. H. Bennett, of Lima, New York, as a student of medicine; his mother died August 28th, 1859; he soon after went to Michigan; attended one term at the Hillsdale College; that fall went to St. Louis, and became the pupil of Prof. Joseph N. McDowell, at that time president of the college and dean of the faculty of the medical department, University of Missouri, and received his diploma February 28th, 1861; remained with his pre- ceptor until after the fall of Fort Snmpter, and was tendered a com- mission as assistant surgeon in the Confederate service by Jefferson Davis, through Dr. McDowell, who was at that time in frequent com- munication with and a personal friend of Davis; not seeing it in that light, he finally left St. Louis for Kalamazoo, Michigan; he en- listed as a private soldier immedi- ately after the battle and defeat at Bull Run, August 23d, 1861, in company I, Sixth Michigan Infant- ry; the capital being in danger, the regiment was sent forward at once, and arrived in Baltimore about the ·1st or 2d day of September, and went into camp at McKim's Hill, where they remained until February 21st, 1862, embarking on the even- ing of that day for Fortress Monroe and Newport News; they left New- port News with Gen. B. F. Butler's forces for Ship Island, Mississippi; on entering the service, he was im- mediately put on hospital duty, and, on his arrival at Ship Island was detached from his regiment for spe-
cial duty at Gen. Butler's headquar- ters in the office of Dr. Thomas Hewson Bache, medical director, Department of the Gulf, and he re- mained until the troops moved against New Orleans; he was then ordered ou duty at the general hos- pital at Ship Island, where he re- mained until the last of June; then went to New Orleans and spent the first fourth of July in that city spent there by United States forces. and was finally ordered back with instructions to pack their supplies and move with their sick to New Orleans, and were distributed among the hospitals then established, but sending most to the St. James, on Magazine street: he was then or- dered back to duty with the medical director, and remained until after the battle of Baton Rouge and the sick and wounded began to arrive in such numbers as to require more room than the city hospitals would accommodate; he was then ordered to the "U. S. Marine Hospital," with instructions to draw two hundred ra- tions for five days, take full charge of the institution and do the best he could; at that time the hospital was entirely empty and unoccupied ex- cept by one old soldier and his wife as custodians; not a bed, chair, stove or means of cooking, or mak- ing the sick comfortable was there, no medicines or rations; instead of sending two hundred men, there were over twelve hundred, some quite sick, all some sick; he remain- ed in charge for ten days and was relieved by the brigade surgeon of volunteers, just arrived from New York; he still remained on duty at the hospital for some months; being relieved he spent a few months with Major Longley in the "Commissary Department," and was commission- ed assistant surgeon First Louisiana Native Guards March 30th, 1863, his regiment doing duty at various points in and about New Orleans
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and Baton Rouge, and finally order: ed into the field, participating in the seige and battles at Port Hud- son, Louisiana; was also on the Red River expedition, besides many short raids and skirmishes; soon after the fall of Port Hudson, he was placed in charge of the general hospital, and had also under his charge and sanitary supervision the contraband camp, the post guard house, Second Vermont battery, battery G, Fifth United States regular artillery, be- sides two working parties, building fortifications, under the commands of Major Long and Major Rigart; he was discharged from the service by general orders from the war de- partment May, 1865, after the sur- render of Lee, ordering the dis- charge of all officers absent from their commands, by reason of sick- ness or leave of absence on a certain day of May, 1865, and, being at that time, for the first time during his term of service, on the sick roll, the order let him out; after leaving the service, he settled in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and was induced by a dis- tant relative (Dr. T. Romeyn Hunt- ington), to investigate homeopathy, since which time he has practiced that system; he was married Octo- ber, 1865, to Mary P. Hildreth, daughter of George W .. Hildreth, of Lockport, New York; they have one child: Robert Jay Huntington, seven years old April 20th, 1880; came to Boone October 19tlı. 1871.
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