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AKA Hossington
Census 1850 (age 2) , Macoupin, IL 4
Occupation 1869 (age 21) Half owner of Winterset Semi-Weekly Sun; Winterset, Madison, IA 5
Winterset News
The Winterset News was established in 1872, when Jacob MORGAN, who had been foreman of the Winterset Madisonian, bought the plant of the Winterset Sun, a semi-weekly republican paper, from WILSON & NEWLON, and changed its name and politics. The first issue of the Sun was September 26, 1868, the publishers being WILSON & HOLADAY.
WILSON afterwards went to Des Moines and was the city editor of the Register for years. J. M. HOLADAY, familiarly known as 'Milt,' was a printer and belonged to a prominent family. The Sun was a five-column folio. HOLADAY sold his interest in the paper to A. J. HOISINGTON the following year and the latter in turn sold to William NEWLON. The paper did not pay and the plant was sold to MORGAN, who issued the first News in the rear upper room of the Jones block, opposite the present building of the News. MORGAN conducted the paper several years, and after selling out he was connected with the Council Bluffs Nonpareil, published the Kearney (Nebraska) Democrat, and was postmaster of that city during Cleveland's first term. In 1876 he sold the plant to Maj. D. D. PALMER, of Iowa City, who published the paper until shortly before his death, having in the meantime sold the paper, March 15, 1888, to Arthur GOSHORN, who had sold his own paper in Pierce, Nebraska, to obtain it. Major PALMER changed the News from an eight-column folio to a six-column quarto a year or two prior to his death. The News has always been one of the strongest papers in Southern Iowa. In spite of the fact that 90 per cent of the business men of Winterset have been of opposite political faith since the Civil War, the News has enjoyed their good will and always has been well patronized.
Census 1870 (age 22) Crawford Twp., Madison, IA 6
17 | 89 89 | McLease Anderson | 50 M W | Farmer | 8150 2181 | Ireland | X X | | | X | M242 |
18 | 89 89 | McLease Sarah | 48 F W | Keeping house | | Ireland | X X | | | | M242 |
19 | 89 89 | McLease John | 21 M W | Farm laborer | | Pennsylvania | X X | | | X | M242 |
20 | 89 89 | McLease Elisabeth | 16 F W | At home | | Ohio | X X | X | | | M242 |
21 | 89 89 | McLease Sarah G | 14 F W | At home | | Iowa | X X | X | | | M242 |
22 | 89 89 | McLease William F | 9 M W | At home | | Iowa | X X | | | | M242 |
23 | 89 89 | McLease Anderson | 7 M W | At home | | Iowa | X X | | | | M242 |
24 | 89 89 | Hossington Andrew | 22 F W | School teacher | | Illinois | X X | | | X | H252 |
1872 (age 24) Elected officer of Valley Lodge, No. 96, I. O. O. F; Garden City, Finney, KS 7
Valley Lodge, No. 96, I. O. O. F., was organized under dispensation, July 11, 1872, and was chartered October 8, 1872, with six charter members. The first officers of the lodge were: J. H. Hubbard, N. G.; G. N. Moses, V. G.; W. H. Odell, R. S.; Morris Collar, Treas.; Emory Barris, W., and T. L. Stone, Con. The lodge has now a membership of eighty-two, and the present officers are: C. H. Crilley, N. G.; A. D. Fair, V. G.; E. W. Moses, P. S.; A. J. Hoisington, R. S.; Ira D. Brougher, Treas.; J. W. Brown, W., and E. R. Moses, Con. Ira D. Brougher is D. D. G. M., which position he has held for six years in succession, and the representative of the Grand Lodge is E. L. Chapman.
Occupation bet 1874-1899 (age 26) Owner/Publisher, Great Bend Register; Great Bend, Barton, KS 7
Great Bend Register.--This was the next venture in the newspaper line, made in the county. It was established in 1874, by the Great Bend Publishing Company, with A. J. Hoisington as editor. In 1875 the paper passed into the hands of Mr. Hoisington, who became sole editor and proprietor, and who, since that time, has remained at the head of the paper as sole editor and owner, and in whose possession it still continues. The paper is an eight column folio, Republican in politics, and has a circulation of 1,200.
William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas: BARTON COUNTY, Part 3, Great Bend
Elected bet 1876-1878 (age 28) Postmaster of Great Bend; Great Bend, Barton, KS
bet 1879-1882 (age 31) Appointed Regent of KS State Agricultural College.
Census 1880 (age 32) Great Bend, Barton, KS
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
A.J. HOISINGTON Self M Male W 31 IL NY ENG
Mary HOISINGTON Other M Female W 24 OH PA PA
Earl HOISINGTON Other S Male W 4 KS IL OH
C.E. CASTLE Other S Male W 30 OH OH OH
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Source Information:
Census Place Great Bend, Barton, Kansas
Family History Library Film 1254373
NA Film Number T9-0373
Page Number 31B
Occupation bet 1883-1885 (age 35) First Receiver of the US Land Office; Garden City, Finney, KS 8
There is no stream of water in the whole county except where the south fork of the Cimarron river crosses the very northwest township. There is not a tree in the county and only three families of actual settlers, yet a large portion of the best claims are filed on, either as tree claims, homesteads, or preemptions, and people seem to think the county will be full of settlers within a year, and that the land ere many years will be worth twenty to fifty dollars an acre. Are they crazy, or is it good sense? I am unable to answer. It will evidently depend largely on the amount of rainfall in this section during the next four or five years. Garden City contains the land office for this southwestern district, and Receiver Hoisington [23] told me last week that he recorded about one hundred claim filings per day, and that nearly half of them were tree claims, and yet, should the next two or three years be as dry as some years in the past have been, how this country would depopulate! And claims could be bought for a mere song. This year the rains have been very seasonable in nearly all this part of the state, and crops of all kinds that have had half a chance have done well.
Occupation 1885 (age 37) bank president; Garden City, Finney, KS 9
The Garden City Bank was the first to be established in Southwest Kansas. It was opened for business about February 1, 1884, with a capital stock of $50,000. J. W. Rush was president; C. M. Niles, vice-president; and W. S. Bish, cashier. The First National Bank was organized in the spring of 1886. Authorized capital stock $200,000, and it started in with $50,000 paid up. The officers elected were Chas. E. Niles, president; Andrew Sabine, vice-president; C. E. Morrison, cashier; and W. S. Bish, assistant cashier. At that time it was the only National bank in Western Kansas. The Bank of Western Kansas was opened for business October 15, 1885. Capital stock $50,000. I. R. Holmes, president, and J. M. Dickey, cashier. The Finney County Bank was organized 1885. A. J. Hoisington, president; H. P. Myton, vice-president; A. H. Adkinson, cashier. Directors, Frederick Finnup, George H. DeWaters, A. Bennett, A. J. Hoisington and H. M. deCordova.
Death:
Died at sister's( Victoria Elizabeth)farm home (From Berdena Johnson
Jones, his grandniece)
Burial:
Jefferson-Goar Cemetery, Madison County, Iowa
http://www.interment.net/data/us/ia/madison/goar.htm
Hoisington, Albert B.J., b. 9-2-1816 Jefferson Co., N. Y., d. 1-27-1909,
s/o Jacob & ? Bonner, h/o Elizabeth
Hoisington, Andrew Jackson, b. 7-12-1848, d. 2-25-1907, h/o Mary (m)
12-31-1874 Madison Co.
Hoisington, Elizabeth (Lamb), b. 12-21-1829 England, d. 4-8-1910, w/o
Albert B., d/o James & Hanah (Linah) *
Hoisington, John, d. 8-6-1876, 21y 10m 12d, drowned
Hoisington, Mary (Smith), b. 6-18-1854, d. 11-1-1890, w/o Andrew J.
Hoisington, Sarah H.M., d. 11-21-1864, 14y, d/o Albert J. & Elizabeth
BIOGRAPHICAL ARTICLES
From "Hoisingtons in America":
Family moved to Madison County, IA.
At age 16 he entered the academy at Winterset, IA, where he graduated.
Learned the printer's trade in the office of the State Register, Des
Moines, IA. Worked the farm, taught school, and worked as a printer.
Half owner of Winterset Semi-Weekly Sun, 1869. Moved to Great Bend, KS
in 1874 and established the Great Bend Register, which he ran until 1883.
Sold the paper and moved to Garden City KS. Returned to Great Bend and
owned the Register until 10/1/1899. Was active in Republican politics
while in KS. Postmaster of Great Bend 1876-78. Regent of KS State
Agricultural College 1879-82. First Receiver of the US Land Office in
Garden City 1883-1885. Town of Hoisington is named after him.
From Cutler's History of Kansas, Barton County
:
A. J. HOISINGTON, editor and proprietor of the Great Bend Register, was born July 12, 1848, in Adams County, Ill. In 1855, with his parents, moved to Iowa and was raised near Winterset, Madison County, on a farm. He was educated at the Winterset Academy and afterwards taught several terms of district school. He also learned the printer's trade at Des Moines, Iowa. He came to Great Bend April 1, 1874, and began teaching school, but in a few weeks established the Register, of which he is still editor and publisher. December 31, 1874, he married Miss Mary Smith of Madison County, Iowa, formerly of Coshocton County, Ohio. They have two children, Earl M. and Roy A. He is largely engaged in agricultural pursuits, owning 1,2000 acres of land, of which 1,000 are cultivated. In politics he is Republican. He is a member of the Knights Templar Order of Masons and of the Encampment of Odd Fellows; has served as Postmaster at Great Bend two years and as Regent of the state Agricultural College three years.
A Memorial and Biographical Record of Iowa
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1896
Hoisington, A J, 499
History of Madison County, Iowa and Its People
ed. by Herman A. Mueller. Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.,
1915.
Hoisington, A. J., 294
ANDREW JACKSON HOISINGTON
Great Bend
Andrew J. Hoisington was born Jul 12, 1848, in Adams county, Illinois. His paternal great grandfather emigrated from England about the middle of the eighteenth century, and settled in Vermont; served as a soldier during the Revolution, and afterward engaged in farming until his death [sic]. His grandfather, Hoisington, was born in Vermont; was a soldier of the Revolution and also in the war of 1812; settled in Jefferson county, New York, after the war for independence, and was a farmer until his death. His father, Albert Jefferson Hoisington, was born in Jefferson county, New York, in 1816; settled in Adams county, Illinois in 1843; moved to Montgomery county in 1849, and to Green county, Iowa, in 1855; in 1859 he moved to Madison county, Iowa, where he still
resides. He has always been a farmer. His mother, who was originally Elizabeth Limb, was born in Lincolnshire, England, immigrated with her parents in 1835, and settled in Adams county, Illinois.
Andrew J. Hoisington was the second of a family of eight children. He was educated in the common schools of Green and Madison counties, Iowa, but at the age of seventeen entered Winterset Academy, which he attended two years. At the close of his academic course, he began to read law in the office of McPherson & Murray in Winterset, Iowa. At the end of six months, he suspended his studies and taught school one year. He then entered the office of the "iowa State Register," and was employed in printing for one year, at the close of which time he purchased a half interest in the "Winterset Sun." Owing to ill health, he sold his interest in the "Sun" at the end of six months. He settled in Great Bend, Kansas, April 1, 1874, and established the "Register," at present the official paper of the county. He was not slow to make a reputation as a terse writer and vigorous editor, and the circulation of his paper has steadily increased until it has become a welcome visitor in the families of Barton and adjoining counties. He was postmaster at Great Bend in 1876 and 1877. He has also, since his residence in Barton county, engaged in farming, and is now the owner of one thousand acres, all of which is in cultivation.
He is Republican in politics, and takes and active part in promoting his party's interests. He has served as delegat in different state and congressional conventions, and is recognized in Barton and adjoining counties, as a man of great political influence. Though a member of no religious society, he is a believer in the Christian religion and favors the doctrines of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Chapter.
He was married, December 31, 1874, to Miss Mary Smith, daughter of Jackson and Mary (Kimball) Smith, of Madison county, Iowa. They have had one child.
He is a man of strong convictions, a forcible writer, clear thinker and persistent worker, making his journal
" A map of busy life, It's fluctuations and vast concerns."
He is social in disposition, generous and benevolent, and is popular with all classes.
Page 308-309
The United States Biographical Dictionary.
Sources
- The United States Biographical Dictionary. Kansas Volume. Chicago and Kansas City: S. Lewis, 1879. Page 308-309.
- Harry Hoisington. Hoisingtons in America. Self-published, Nov 1934.
- Cutler's History of Kansas. From Cutler's History of Kansas, Barton County
.
- 1850 Census Macoupin Co. IL.
- The History of Madison County, Iowa, vol. I,. Herman August Mueller, 1915, pages 114–16.
- 1870 Census Madison Co. IA.
- Cutler's History of Kansas.
- Kansas Historical Quarterlies. Letter written by J.E. Platt Englewood, Clark Co., Aug. 21st [1885]. Quoted in "Circuit-Riding in Southwest Kansas in 1885 and 1886 The Letters of Jeremiah Evarts Platt", Kansas Historical Quarterlies, http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1943/43_4_barry.htm. Transcribed by Harriette Jensen.
- Garden City KS website. http://www.gardencity.net/info/history/garden/garden3.html.
- e-mail from Berdena Jones 1/6/02. Grandniece of Andrew Jackson Hoisington.
- http://www.interment.net/data/us/ia/madison/goar.htm.
- Vitals/Marriages: Index 1900-1909 H thru M, Madison County, Iowa. http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ia/madison/vitals/madmar2h-m.txt.
Unless otherwise indicated in the text, data is from "Hoisingtons in America" by Harry Hoisington, privately published 1935 and on file at NEHGS, Boston.
