Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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CHRIST S. HOAR

Christ S. HOAR, an enterprising groceryman doing business at Missouri Valley, came to this place in June, 1878, and being one of the representative business men of the county most naturally finds a place in this connection, for all history is made of the individual lives of men.

Our subject was born June 15, 1851, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He is a son of Jonathan and Christina (SEABER) HOAR. The mother was from Germany and came to this country when quite young. The father was an Englishman, but born in Pennsylvania, in 1804, and died in 1860 and was buried in Mifflin County. The mother died in Missouri Valley, Iowa, in 1885, aged seventy-nine years. The father was a blacksmith by trade, and he and his good wife were the parents of fourteen children, and the mother had three children by an earlier marriage. The father had also been married the second time and reared five children, by that marriage, making him the father of nineteen children.

Our subject, C. S., was the youngest of the fourteen above named. Of the total number of twenty-two children there are only eight living at this tie, and only four of the family to which our subject belonged. His education was received in the common schools of Pennsylvania, and afterward learned the carpenter's trade, at which he worked for fifteen years. He worked at this for five or six years after coming to Missouri Valley, and January 8, 1884, he embarked in the grocer business, continuing until January 1, 1886, when Mathias T. WESTON purchased an interest in the business and Mr. HOAR continued the business under the name of C. S. HOAR & Co.

Our subject was married October 4, 1883, to Annie NOY, a native of Pennsylvania whose parents came to Iowa soon after the war and are both deceased. They were residents of Benton County. Mr. and Mrs. HOAR are the parents of two children--Sarah who died in infancy, and Grace, born in 1887.

Politically, Mr. HOAR is a Republican, deep dyed, and to the back bone. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Church. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Valley Lodge No. 232, at Missouri Valley, and also to Triune Chapter No. 81. As a business man and a good citizen there are none more highly respected than our subject.

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