Message #: |
686 |
Date Posted: |
11-01-2001 |
Bio: |
Ghoca, C. (History - 1842) |
Contact: |
Janet |
Email: |
stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org |
Surnames: |
GHOCA CLARK WALBRIDGE STOWE |
----Source: 1881 HISTORY OF NORTHERN WI,
Chicago: The Western Historical Company, A. T. Andreas, Proprietor
(grammar as is), Pg. 576
C. GHOCA, with G. W. Ghoca in the Colby
House, Colby. Born in St. Clair Co., Mich., June 19, 1842. His
parents moved to Detroit, where his mother died in 1855. Leaving
there he came to Fond du Lac in 1856, lumbered some and went to the
Green Bay shore, then north to Portage on Lake Superior and worked
in the mines returned to Fond du Lac and enlisted in the 1st Wis.
Infantry, Vol. Co. K, and in 1864 re-enlisted in Tennessee, was
transferred to Sherman's headquarters as special mail agent, where
he was till 1865. He then went to La Crosse and up to Neillsville,
went to work in the woods, working in A. W. Clark's sawmill till
1870. While there was Deputy Sheriff and Justice of the Peace for
two years. He came to Colby in 1873, went into business with G. W.,
then established a hardware store and acted Postmaster till 1876
sold out to G. J. Walbridge, and was elected Chairman of Town Board
of Hull in 1875. He then bought a farm in the town of Loyal, but
went west to Kansas, where he farmed till 1880, when he sold his
claim and came back overland to Colby, and is now in the hotel with
his cousin, Geo. W. Ghoca, as clerk. In 1869 he married Miss C. S.
Stowe of Loyal. They have two children, Laura and Albert. He is an
I. O. O. F. and belongs to the encampment at Neillsville, also
Masons at Colby.
© Every submission is protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.
Show your appreciation of this freely provided information by not copying it to any other site without our permission.
Become a Clark County History Buff
|
|
A site created and
maintained by the Clark County History Buffs
Webmasters: Leon Konieczny, Tanya Paschke, Janet & Stan Schwarze, James W. Sternitzky,
|