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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hoard_(politician)
Bio:
http://books.google.com/books?id=CBYVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA401&lpg=PA401&dq=%22sophronia+conant%22+Hoard&source=bl&ots=jDrRz2WnYM&sig=J_uu-7ir4i1VlMELfAgbLCWA3Q8&hl=en&ei=5b2uSejLE5S8M6fqgOkE&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA401,M1
50th Wedding Anniversary:
Newspaper The Malone NY Franklin Gazette 1877 - 62.pdf
http://fultonhistory.com/Process%20Small/Newspapers/The%20Malone%20NY%20Franklin%20Gazette/The%20Malone%20NY%20Franklin%20Gazette%201877/Newspaper%20The%20Malone%20NY%20Franklin%20Gazette%201877%20-%2062.pdf
Obituary:
Published Date: 1881-11-28
Newspaper: Daily Inter Ocean
and...
New York NY World 1881-1882 Grayscale - 0564.pdf http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20NY%20World/New%20York%20NY%20World%201881-1882%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20World%201881-1882%20Grayscale%20-%200564.pdf
AN OLD SETTLER DEAD
The venerable Samuel Hoard died at his residence,
No, $05 South Morgan street, at 11 o'clock last night
, after a protracted illness. He was one ot tbe oldest
' settlers In Cook County, having come here as early
as 168$. He was a native of Westminster, Mass.,
?W where he was born May SO, 1800. At first he studied
law, but finding It unsulted to his taste be turned
his attention to mercantile pursuits, becoming first
a clerk and subsequently a partner with Ms
brother at Fori Covington. N. T. He took
an active Interest in politics and was elected a
magistrate and eventually appointed Judge of the
?WCounty Court of Franklin County, N. Y. In 1827
. he married Sopurcnla Conant, daughter of John
Conant, o f Brandon, Vt., and sister of T. J.
Conant, D. D., of New York City. In 1828 Mr.
. Hoard, with the cooperation ot James Long, of
Chicago, established the Franklin IWpuMtcan, and
in 1833 he became editor and manager of the St.
Lawrence Republican, where he was associated
; with Silas Wright, Jr. in 1838 he moved to Chicago.
Be took the first census of this city in 1840 and
. found less than five thousand people here.
http://history.rays-place.com/ny/ft-covington-2-ny.htm
Samuel Hoard came to Fort Covington in 1827, and purchased the Franklin Telegraph, which had been founded a few months earlier. Discontinuing the publication in 1833, lie removed to Ogdensburg, where he published the St. Lawrence Republican. Removing to Chicago, he became prominent 'there and rich. He had a beautiful home, was postmaster, and died in 1881.
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The H600 Project Genealogy DB
1800 - 1881 (81 years)