. Biographical record; this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of Houghton, Baraga and Marquette Counties, Michigan .. . r which he returned tothe Northern Peninsula, where he bought mining interests with E. , and later established a business on the same site in Hough-ton now occupied by Hodgson Brothers & Hoar, buying Mr. Hen-dricks interest and taking his brother, Richard M. Hoar, into business, under the firm name of John Hoar & Brother, was uninter-rupted until the death of John Hoar in 1884, at the age of 67 years. Hewas a man of excellent
. Biographical record; this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of Houghton, Baraga and Marquette Counties, Michigan .. . r which he returned tothe Northern Peninsula, where he bought mining interests with E. , and later established a business on the same site in Hough-ton now occupied by Hodgson Brothers & Hoar, buying Mr. Hen-dricks interest and taking his brother, Richard M. Hoar, into business, under the firm name of John Hoar & Brother, was uninter-rupted until the death of John Hoar in 1884, at the age of 67 years. Hewas a man of excellent parts, and held a number of village and county death of his widow took place in iqoo, at the age of 83 years. Oursubjects brother. John M., died in 1882. leaving a widow and two sister, Mrs. Annie Sturgis, lives in Boston. Since 1859 William B. Hoar, the subject of this sketch, has been a resi-dent of Houghton. He attended the common schools of the village, tooka business course at Detroit, Michigan, and spent one year at Ann Arbor,Michigan, but his entire business life has been passed at Houghton. Until. EDWARD H. LEE HOUGHTON, BARAGA AND MARQUETTE COUNTIES 91 1887 he operated a dry goods store by himself, but at that date the presenlfirm style was adopted, additional members and capital being added. Thostock includes groceries and dry goods, and all commodities usually foundin an establishment of this kind, which is kept up to the highest standard ofexcellence. The store building is a commodious double one, located nearthe corner on Shelden street. Jn 1875 Mr. Hoar married Cordelia R. Mathews, who was born atEagle Harbor, Michigan, and is a daughter of the late Mark Mathews, apioneer of Keweenaw County, Michigan, from Cornwall, England. Thetwo children of this marriage are: Mrs. Henry G. Warner of Detroit; andW. B., Jr., a student at the Michigan College of Mines. In politics is a stanch Republican, and cast his first presidential vote for U.
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