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- BENJAMIN S. HOXIE, farmer, Sec. 6; P.O. Cooksville;
- born in Maine August 6, 1827. Came to Wisconsin in 1846,
locating at Cooksville, Porter Township, Rock Co., and engaged
in house-building. In 1875, he began to manufacture cheese, being
the proprietor of the Cooksville Cheese Factory, which has a
capacity for using the milk of 600 cows. He was elected Justice
of the Peace, which office he held for two terms, and was re-elected
in 1879. He has been Notary Public for a number of years. He
was Grand Worthy Patriarch of the Sons of Temperance, and in
1862, attended the National Convention of that Order at London,
Canada. Married in Union township, Rock Co., Jan. 22, 1851, Miss
Ellen A. WOODBURY, a native of Vermont, who was born Nov. 7,
1827. He has three children - Eva J., born Nov. 15, 1852; Mary
A., born May 30, 1856; Cora B., born May 6, 1864.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 870.
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- Courtesy of Carol
- Benjamin Sargent HOXIE, builder and architect, was the son
of Allen HOXIE and Olivia
- SARGENT HOXIE of Cooksville. Isaac
A. HOXIE and Silas
Paddock HOXIE were his brothers, Harriet A. HOXIE was his
sister. Benjamin died December 5, 1901.
- Silas was born April 30, 1832, and died March 10, 1900, in
Spring Green, Sauk County,
- Wisconsin.
- Harriet married Mr. HOWARD; they had a daughter, Malvina
"Vie" A. HOWARD, who was
- born May 26, 1848, in Cooksville, and died June 3, 1922,
in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Vie married Henry
CAMPBELL and was quite active in women's rights, the temperance
movement, etc. Henry and Vie had a son, Leo Henry CAMPBELL, who
was born December 1, 1869, in Evansville, Rock County, Wisconsin,
and died November 17, 1924, in Union Twp., Rock County. On November
27, 1895, Leo
married Minnie Frederica Peterson. Minnie was born December
26, 1873, in Brooklyn, Dane County, Wisconsin, and died August
3, 1925, in Janesville, Rock County.
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- Additional information and photograph of Silas courtesy
of Cynthia Hoxie
- Photographs of Benjamin, Malvina, Leo and Minnie courtesy
of Cynthia Hoxie and
Ruth Ann Montgomery
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