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- http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mo/andrew/bios/h6000011.txt
W. D. Hoar, the subject of the following sketch, was born in Lancaster County, PA., February 4, 1830. He is the youngest child of three sons and two daughters born to the marriage of William Hoar and Jane Norton. The former was a native of Pennsylvania, and was of English lineage. He was a blacksmith by vocation, and possessed energy and competency. He was respected by all who knew him. The latter was also a native of Pennsylvania. W.D. was reared in Bird-in-hand Village. His education was begun in the public schools of Lancaster County, PA., and completed in the Millersville State Normal School, situated in that county. He however, lacked one year of graduation at the Normal when the Civil War broke out, but patriotic and true to his country, he enlisted in what was known as Capt. Nevin's Independent Battery I of Light Artillery as a private, on June 26, 1863. He was mustered out of the service at Philadelphia, June 26, 1865. At the close of the war he went to Missouri, arriving at St. Louis in August of 1865, and after a short prospecting tour throughout the State, located at Savannah. Here he resumed the profession of teaching, which he had begun when he was seventeen years of age, teaching and attending school alternately until his enlistment in the army. Besides teaching several years in Andrew County, he has served two years as county superintendent. For the last few years of his life he has devoted considerable attention to farming, and owns a farm of eighty acres in Platte Township. In November, 1886, he was elected by the Republican party to the office of county Representative. In 1868, he was united in marriage with Mary E. Hobson, daughter of John and Jane (Phillips) Hobson. Two sons and one daughter have blessed their marriage.
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