John Addison Hallock

HALLOCK, CRANE, ECKMAN, STRAHL, MILLHOLLIN, BURBANK, NORTON, OVERHOLT

Posted By: Steve Harrison (email)
Date: 7/4/2004 at 16:16:22

"HISTORY OF AUDUBON COUNTY, IOWA", H. F. ANDREWS, 1915.
pages 128-130 has Hallock family biographical sketches.

THE HALLOCKS.

Hon. John Addison Hallock married Catherine, daughter of Daniel and Ann (Eckman) Crane. He came to Audubon county about 1856, and was a farmer and successful school teacher. He settled on lot 13, section 3, adjoining the town of Exira on the east. He taught school in Guthrie Center, at Exira and at the Green school. As the town increased his land was required for suburban residences, and now forms a large part of the town. The Congregational church was built on his land. A Republican in politics, he was c1erk of the district court, 1863-4; justice of the peace, 1868, and later representative. In 1878 he was a merchant at Exira, but moved to Salida, Colorado, in the eighties, where Mrs. Hallock died. He was an agnostic. There was an unusual amount of gun play in this family. The son, Charles, was accidentally wounded by a mob in Colorado; George shot and killed Colbert Strahl and at the same time wounded Jesse Millhollin near Oakfield, in 1883; Willis was shot and seriously wounded in Elkhorn the same year, in the celebrated horse thief mob case, and Frank was afterwards shot and killed in Colorado. The children were: Charles, who married Anna Burbank; George, married Lucy Norton; Willis, married Belle Overholt; Frank, Grace and Ray.