HOXIE, Hiram Brown 1836-1926

HOXIE, PIERCE, KELL, BROWN

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 6/24/2012 at 13:08:40

[Waterloo Evening Courier, Thursday, April 29, 1926]

HIRAM B. HOXIE,
FORMER SHERIFF,
DIES AT HIS HOME

Civil War Veteran, Pioneer in
Black Hawk, Long Prominent
in Civic Life Here

Hiram B. Hoxie, veteran of the Civil war, former sheriff and a resident of the county since 1868, died at 9 a.m. today at his home, 1126 Sycamore Street, of ills incident to advanced age. He was in his ninetieth year.

Funeral services will be held from the home at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Dr. Earl A. Roadman, pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church will officiate. Burial will be in the family plot in Fairview. The body is at the O'Keefe & Towne Mortuary.

Three children survive, Wirt P., 915 Walnut Street,Ralph J., 304 South Street, and Mrs. Nellie Kell. Mrs. Kell lived with her father.

Up almost to the last, Mr. Hoxie was able to be about. He retained his mental faculties in unusual degree. He was a large man of powerful physique.

Hiram Brown Hoxie was born November 25, 1836, in Cayuga County, New York, being the eldest son of Jonathan Johnson and Lydia (Brown) Hoxie. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in Co. B. Seventy-fifth New York infantry. In 1862 he was commissioned Lieutenant of Co. B. Eighty-eighth U. S. colored infantry, with which he served until mustered out in the fall of 1864.

In 1868 Mr. Hoxie purchased land in Barclay Township, this county. The land was unbroken prairie, without improvements. He moved to Waterloo in January 1888, when elected sheriff. So efficiently did he conduct the office that he was re-elected three times, serving eight years in all. In 1899 he became a dominant factor in organizing the Waterloo Fruit & Commission Co., with which he was actively engaged until 1912. He retained his interestes until his death.

In 1879 Mr. Hoxie was married to Ruth A. Pierce, a native of New York, at Mr. Morris, Illinois. She preceded her husband in death.

The parents of Mr. Hoxie joined him in the county. The mother died in 1887 and the father in 1907.

William Saunders, author of a series of rending and spelling books used in the schools in the early days was a relative of Mrs. H. B. Hoxie.

Mr. Hoxie was genteel, courteous, sympathetic and always thoughtful of others.

He was a member of Waterloo Lodge No. 105, A.F. & A. M., and of the Royal Arch chapter. For many years he was a working member of the Waterloo Commercial Club.

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