Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1888 — HOARD AND MORGAN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOARD AND MORGAN.

WISCONSIN’S REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES. Brief Sketches of the Men Who Hoad the State Ticket!—Mr. Hoard a Dairyman, Farmer and Editor—Mr. Morgan a Bachelor Merchant. [Milwaukee special.] W. D. Hoard, the Republican candidate for Governor of Wii oasin, came to this State in 1857, locating at Oak Grove, Dodge Co ’.nty, on Oct. 4th. In December lie began teaching vo cal music in Lowell, at Benedict’s Comers, and also in Elba, .and the next summer ho remained in Lowell, after which he went to live in Waupun. He struggled hard in those days, working on the farm in summer and teaching singing in winter. Afterward he became a dairyman and an editor, his publication being known throughout the

State as Hoard’s Dairyman. His present home is at Fort Atkinson, where he lives ou a small farm. From childhood to manhood his life v’as upon a farm. He is a native of New York State and 52 years old. Since 1857 he has been a resident of the State, with the exception of the war period. He was the first man to volunteer in Lake Mills, Jefferson County, where he then lived, and enlisted in the Fourth Regiment May 21, 1861. He was discharged for disability from sickness in 1862, and wentto his old home in Now York, where, after a few months' rest, he re-enlisted ia a New York artillery company and remained in the army till 1865. After the war he returned to Wisconsin, and in 1870 he started the Jefferson County Union as a local paper at Lake Mills. Fipm the start he sought to awaken an interest in the dairy business, and largely to his efforts is to be credited the development of the dairy interests of Wisconsin. James Morgan, the Democratic nominee for Governor of Wisconsin, was born in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, in 1841, and was one of a family of nine sturdy boys and one girl. His father was a millwright and manufacturer of improved machinery. To this he added the business of a lumber or timber dealer, and in the People’s Journal of Perthshire, of Aug. 18, 1888, a picture of the senior Morgan and a lengthy sketch of his life and value as a citizen an published. Soon after reaching New York young James went to Peru, 111., and engagec as a clerk in a dry-goods store. For sou

•years he was thus engaged at Peru and Ottawa, and, while in Ottawa, he declared his intention of becoming a citizen of his adopted country, and took out his final papers at Freeport three years later, or as soon as he could do so. He came to Milwaukee in 1874, and established himself in the dry-goods business. Mr. Morgan is a bachelor, worth half a million, and occupies rooms over his store, where he has a fine library. He is not a politician, and doesn’t know much about practical politics.

w. D. HOARD.

JAMES MORGAN.