Robert Dennison Tratt

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Name: Robert Dennison Tratt
Gender: Male
Baptism/Christening Date:
Baptism/Christening Place:
Birth Date: 31 Jul 1905
Birthplace: Palmyra, Jefferson, Wisconsin
Death Date:
Name Note:
Race: White
Father's Name: Paul Tratt
Father's Birthplace: Whitewater, Wis.
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Mother's Name: Edna H. Hoard
Mother's Birthplace: Ft. Atkinson, Wis.
Mother's Age:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C00315-7
System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy
Source Film Number: 1302882
Reference Number: item 1 p 457-0942
Collection: Wisconsin Births and Christenings, 1826-1926

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Groom's Name: Paul Hamilton Tratt
Groom's Birth Date:
Groom's Birthplace: Whitewater, Wis.
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Edna Beatrice Hoard
Bride's Birth Date:
Bride's Birthplace: Ft. Atkinson
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 06 Oct 1904
Marriage Place: Ft. Atkinson, Jefferson, Wisconsin
Groom's Father's Name: Frank W. Tratt
Groom's Mother's Name: Helen Edwards
Bride's Father's Name: Halbert L. Hoard
Bride's Mother's Name: Charlotte Jones
Groom's Race: White
Groom's Marital Status:
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race: White
Bride's Marital Status:
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00891-0
System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy
Source Film Number: 1276047
Reference Number: it 1 cn 434
Collection: Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930

Paul married Edna Hoard on 6 Oct 1904 in Fort Atkinson, Jefferson Co, Wisconsin, USA. Edna (daughter of Halbert Hoard and Charlotte E. Jones) was born on 26 Dec 1884 in Fort Atkinson, Jefferson Co, Wisconsin, USA; died in Jun 1974 in . [Group Sheet]

Frank married Helen Edwards. [Group Sheet]

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http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=2437&keyword=Non
Halbert Louis 1861 - 1933
Definition:
newspaperman, inventor, b. Munnsville, N.Y. He was the eldest son of William Dempster Hoard (q.v.). He learned the newspaper business through work on his father's Jefferson County Union, and Iater assumed charge of the mechanical department of his father's publishing plant in Fort Atkinson. He was co-editor, with his father, of the Jefferson County Union (1884-1918), and on his father's death became editor, serving in this capacity from 1918 to 1933. He was widely known for his militant crusades and trenchant editorials, and was president of the Wisconsin Press Association, and secretary of W. D. Hoard and Sons Co., which published the Jefferson County Union and Hoard's Dairyman. A student of anatomy and pathology, he invented the Hoard curative chair for the correction of back ailments. His brother, ARTHUR RALPH HOARD, b. Stockbridge, N.Y., the second son of W. D. Hoard, aided his father in founding Hoard's Dairyman (1885), a journal devoted to dairying and allied interests. In 1886 he became a promoter of Hoard's Creameries, an organization of local dairy interests designed to establish and improve standards of dairy products. This company grew into a large industry that shipped its products throughout the U.S. and to foreign countries. He had numerous other business interests, and served as vice-president of W. D. Hoard and Sons Co., president of the Better Sox Knitting Mills Co., vice-president of the First National Bank of Fort Atkinson, and director of the Northwest Manufacturing Co. The youngest son of W. D. Hoard, FRANK WARD HOARD, b. Columbus, Wis., attended the Univ. of Wisconsin Law School, and soon entered his father's publishing business. He was business manager of Hoard's Dairyman (1890-1918), and from 1918 until his death served as president and general manager of W. D. Hoard and Sons Co. He was part owner of the Better Sox Mills, and had numerous other business and real-estate interests. J. G. Gregory, ed., S.E. Wis. (4 vols., Chicago, 1932); F. L. Holmes, et aI., eds., Wis. (5 vols., Chicago, 1946); Janesville Daily Gazette, Nov. 25, 1939, Apr. 30, 1942; Milwaukee Journal, Dec. 28, 1933; H. L. Hoard Papers: http://arcat.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=rlin+%22wihvH2700-A%22&SL=None&Search_Code=CMD&DB=local&CNT=30

Marriage Announcement (to Emma):
Date: 1896-07-09;
Paper: Kalamazoo Gazette

Cemetery:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=31341017

Halbert married Charlotte E. Jones in 1883. Charlotte was born about 1863 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Founder and Publisher of "Hoard's Dairyman", a writer and lecturer on dairy topics.
Governor of Wisconsin 1889-1890.
President of National Dairy Union.

Book with photo:
http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0932147003&id=RkCN21JuovkC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=%22le+Hore%22&sig=Gl0nQw3fY5Kwd6FRRf0AleZuudM#PPA4,M1

Book
W. D. Hoard: A man for his time.
http://books.google.com/books?id=RkCN21JuovkC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=%22william+bradford+hoard%22&source=bl&ots=U_6Xn-7iAD&sig=szEjqDs2IdlLuBisgiWC6FI868I&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPA4,M1

Bio:
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/topics/hoard/index.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_D._Hoard (with photo)

Cemetery:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6878927

William married Agnes Elizabeth Bragg on 9 Feb 1860 in Lake Mills, Jefferson Co, Wisconsin, USA. Agnes (daughter of William D. Bragg and Almira Edna Edgerton) was born on 4 Feb 1840 in Vergennes, Addison Co, Vermont, USA; died on 9 Dec 1919 in Fort Atkinson, Jefferson Co, Wisconsin, USA; was buried in Fort Atkinson, Jefferson Co, Wisconsin, USA (Evergreen Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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Cemetery:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=hoard&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=51&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=31333774&df=all&