History of Stockbridge, (Madison County) New York United States of America

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William Dempster Hoard, governor of Wisconsin, was born in Stockbridge, N.Y., Oct. 10, 1836; son of William B. and Sarah Catherine (White) Hoard, grandson of Enos and Fanny (Perry) Hoard, and of Benjamin and Betsy (Sawyer) White, and a descendant on the maternal side of Capt. Jesse Sawyer, who was one of the officers of Col. Ethan Allen's Vermont regiment in the Revolutionary war. He received a common school education, removed to Wisconsin in 1857 and engaged in farming and teaching music. He served in the civil war as a private in the 4th Wisconsin infantry and in the 1st New York artillery, 1861-65. He was in the nursery business at Columbus, Wis., 1865-70; published the Jefferson County Union, at Lake Mills, Wis., 1870-73; was justice of the peace in 1871, and sergeant-at-arms of the state senate in 1872. He removed his paper to Fort Atkinson, Wis., in 1873, and began there in 1885 Hoard's Dairyman, an organ devoted to dairy interests. He was one of the organizers of the dairymen's associations of Jefferson county in 1871, and Wisconsin in 1872, and of the Wisconsin farm institutes, serving as secretary of the Wisconsin association for three years. In 1878 he was elected president of the Northwestern association. He was also elected president of the Farmer's National Congress and of the National Dairy union, and lectured on dairy and agricultural subjects extensively throughout the United States and Canada. He was governor of Wisconsin. 1889-91.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Stockbridge, (Madison County) New York

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