T. J. HOOSE
T.J. Hoose is a native of Wyoming county, New York, and was born on the 5th of June, 1846, and is the son of Peter and Marion (Simmons) Hoose. When eight years of age Jefferson came west with his parents, and settled in LaSalle county, Illinois, where his father died, and his mother is now living in Lewis, with a daughter. T.J. came to Cass county in 1871, and located on section 24, Cass township, where he owns eighty acres of as fine land as can be found in the county. Mr. Hoose was married on the 12th of April, 1877, to Miss Mary Keys, a daughter of James and Bridget Keys, and a native of Pike county, Illinois. Her parents came to this county in 1871, where her father died in the winter of 1883-4, while her mother still resides in Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. Hoose have been blessed with three children...Edward, born in 1879; Mary, on February 22, 1881, and Arthur, born on August 19, 1884.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 515.
