Vitals
| Birth | 12 Jul 1828 , Wayne, OH 3 |
| Death | 17 Sep 1916 (age 88) Portland, Multnomah, OR 11,3 |
| Burial | aft 17 Sep 1916 (age 88) , Hennepin, MN |
| Occupation |
Marriage
| Spouse | Almira FISHER |
| Date | 30 Oct 1854 (age 26) |
| Place | Brighton, Lorrain, OH 3 |
Children
| Clara HOISINGTON (19 Jun 1861 - ) |
| Mary HOISINGTON (abt 12 Jun 1866 - ) |
| Aurilla HOISINGTON (11 Aug 1872/73 - ) |
| Homer HOISINGTON (31 May - ) |
Notes
Marriage 3:
Marriage performed by James Goodrich. Record may be at Elyria OH per statement made in 1898.
Residence 1855 (age 27) , Hennepin, MN 3,1
Property 1859 (age 31) received land patent in Waseca Co. MN; , Waseca, MN 4
Names Patentee: EARL HOISINGTON
Survey State: MINNESOTA
Acres: 40
Metes/Bounds: No
Title Transfer Issue Date: 7/1/1859
Land Office: Minneapolis
Cancelled: No
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Document Numbers
Document Nr.: 1698
Accession/Serial Nr.: MN0040__.111
BLM Serial Nr.: MN NO S/N
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Aliquot Parts Sec./ Block Township Range Fract. Section Meridian State Counties Survey Nr.
SESE 26/ 118-N 24-W No 5th PM MN Hennepin
Census 1860 (age 32) Independence (Maple Plain PO), Hennepin, MN 5
The following Hoisingtons were found in the 1860 census for MI in Independence, Hennepin County MN
Addie
David
Earl
Elmira
George
Homer M.
Jane
Military 1861 (age 33) 6,7,3
Enlisted 8/13/1864 in Co. F 11th MN Vol. Inf., giving his age as 36. Honorably discharged 5/21/1865.
Earl Horsington
Enlist Date: 13 Aug 1864
Enlist Place:
Enlist Rank: Private
Enlist Age: 36
Served Minnesota
Enlisted F Co. 11th Inf Reg MN Disch. on 31 May 1865
Name: Earl Horsington ,
Enlistment Date: 13 August 1864
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Side Served: Union
State Served: Minnesota
Unit Numbers: 1149 1149
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 13 August 1864 at the age of 36. Enlisted in Company F, 11th Infantry Regiment Minnesota on 13 August 1864. Discharged Company F, 11th Infantry Regiment Minnesota on 31 May 1865
Surname: HORSINGTON
Given Name and Rank: EARL PVT
Age: 36 I
nduction Date: 13/AUG/1864
Regiment: F ELEVENTH
Birth Place: OHIO
State of Residence: MINN
Notes: DISCHARGED PER ORDER
Discharge Date: 31/MAY/1865
Per pension papers, he was enlisted at Ft. Snelling, discharged in Gallatin TN
Residence bet 1865-1901 (age 37) , Hennepin, MN 3
Census 1870 (age 42) Independence (Maple Plain PO), Hennepin, MN 8
17 17 Hoisington, Earl, 41,m,w,farmer,3000,?, OH
Almira,35, f,w,keeping house,,,NY
Clara, 9,f,w,,,,MN
Mary,4?, f,w,,,,MN
Census 1880 (age 52) Independence, Hennepin, MN 9
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Earl HOSINGTON Self M Male W 51 OH Farmer VT VT
Almira HOSINGTON Wife M Female W 45 NY Keeping House NY NY
Mary HOSINGTON Dau S Female W 13 MN At School OH NY
Aurillia HOSINGTON Dau S Female W 7 MN At School OH NY
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Source Information:
Census Place Independence, Hennepin, Minnesota
Family History Library Film 1254623
NA Film Number T9-0623
Page Number 79A
Pension 6 Jul 1887 (age 58) applied for invalid pension; Maple Plain, Hennepin, MN 3
Alleged diarrhea, jaundice and sore eyes.
Pension 1892 (age 64) applied for increase due to additional physical ailments 3
He stated that he suffered from chronic diarrhea, piles, jaundice, disease of eyes, rheumatism, heart trouble, liver complaint, kidney complaint, bad stomach, deafness, failure of sight, cattarah, and difficulty of spine. Also nervousness and insomnia.
Residence bet 1901-1907 (age 73) Delano, Wright, MN 2
From reference in "Minnesota Pioneer Sketches".
Pension 1903 (age 75) Delano, Wright, MN 3
Approved for total disability on the basis of chronic diarrhea, disease of rectum, and senile debility.
Census 1910 (age 82) , Wright, MN 10
Residence 1915 (age 87) Portland, Multnomah, OR 3
Lived at 500 East Broadway, Portland, OR in 1913.
Description 1915 (age 87)
5'10", brown eyes, grey hair (previously dark), ruddy complexion3. He was previously described as 5' 10 1/2", 145 to 150 lbs., blue eyes. 3 Apparently, he was frail enough in 1915 that he was unable to write his name, although he signed previous petitions and documents.
Death:
Name: Hoisington, Earl
County: Portland
Death Date: 17 Sep 1916
Certificate: 1709
His pension check was returned by his daughter Aurilla, who stated that he died on 17 Sep 1916.
From "1868-1968, Maple Plain & Independence Past-Present" 1:
George W. Hoisington came from Ohio and settled in Armstrong in 1854. He served in the Civil War, but spent many years here unjtil his death in 1898. His brother, Earl, came to Armstrong in 1855, from Ohio by railroad and then up the river to St. Paul and then to St. Anthony where he was welcomed by an old-time neighbor, Amos Clark. Mr. Clark gave him work getting out timbers for the first suspension bridge at the Falls of St. Anthony. There was as large band of Winnebago Indians encamped near-by. The Indians were being moved to their new reservation in Nebraska. Mr. Hoisington worked on this timber project until June when he came to Hennepin County and pre-empted a claim in the Big Woods. He camped in the woods overnight, building a fire to roast a partridge for his supper. His claim was on the Watertown road in Independence. Before his wife arrived he had a cabin built which was covered with poles and hay. A later cabin, somewhat larger, was covered with shakes. The Hoisingtons were noted for their musical ability and were active in the affairs of the township. He was buried from the Maple Plain Presbyterian Church in 1916, at the age of 91 years. His body was brought here from Portland, Oregon by his daughter Mrs. Mary Bradford with whom he lived the last six years of his life, following the death of his wife.
From "Minnesota Pioneer Sketches" 2.
The following interesting account is not of this character, and it affords us much pleasure to reproduce it in the author's own words. It was furnished us by Earl Hossington of Delano, Wright county, Minnesota."I came to Minnesota in the spring of 1855, from Ohio, via railroad to St. Louis, and thence by boat up the Mississippi river.
"The boat which brought us from St. Louis was the second after the opening of navigation is the latter part of April. A sad trip it was indeed, as we had on board a dozen cholera cases, nearly all of which proved fatal. The danger that my turn might come next was a serious and unpleasant subject for contemplation.
"After reaching St. Paul without the realization of my fears, I resumed my journey by land to St. Anthony's Falls, and was welcomed to the home of an old-time friend and neighbor, Amos Clark.
"Mr. Clark was a lumberman and employed help; this being the case, I had no difficulty in obtaining work up the Mississippi river getting out timbers to be used in the construction of the suspension bridge at the Falls of St. Anthony, which was the first bridge to cross the Mississippi from its source to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico.
"While we were engaged in preparing this timber, which [p.91] was to be put in rafts and floated down the river, there was a large band of Winnebago Indians encamped on the north side of the river not far from where I was at work. Not knowing much about Indians and their customs, I was not unduly fearful that my life was in jeopardy; yet, as I kept at work, I would occasionally raise my hat and try the condition of my scalp, not quite sure how soon it and I might be called upon to part company.
"We had not been here many days when the glad announcement came that the Indians were all to be removed to their new reservation in Nebraska. A picturesque sight it was, indeed, to see eight hundred braves, squaws and pappooses embarking in canoes with their belongings, singing their weird strains while they rapidly floated down the ‘Father of Waters' on the way to their new hunting-grounds.
"When our timber contract had been completed, I returned to St. Anthony, where I remained until June, when I went up to what was then known as the ‘Big Woods,’ in the western part of Hennepin county, and pre-empted a claim.
"At this time there were no roads and I was obliged to follow section lines to the forks of the Crow river. I camped in the woods over night, and after building a fire to toast a partridge which I had shot, and eating the same, I lay down to sleep, but was unable to court the ‘sweet restorer,’ on account of a severe headache.
"It was about ten o'clock when I was startled by the sound of something stepping stealthily along and gradually nearing the spot where I was lying. Suddenly I rose to my feet and a big buck deer leaped several feet into the air with a snort which might have been heard for a mile. It was a question with me which was the most frightened, I or Mr. Buck.
"The claim I pre-empted was in what is now known as Independence township, on the Watertown road. I built a cabin in January and my wife and I moved into it, lived [p.92] there until spring and then built another cabin, which I covered with ‘shakes,’ the first one having been covered with poles and hay.
"We greatly enjoyed the maple syrup and sugar which I obtained this spring from the abundance of sugar maple in this vicinity. This meant much to us when there was so little to be had in the way of luxury, as we were so far from a market, and had no money to purchase even though the article was close at hand.
"One day it was necessary for me to visit a neighbor a mile distant, and my wife was left alone. I had not been gone long when she heard strange noises near the cabin, and, looking out, beheld a company of twenty-four Indians coming towards it. She was greatly frightened, not knowing what was to be her fate. They proved to be a band of Sioux who had been on the warpath for Chippewas, a tribe with whom they were to deadly enmity.
"They entered the house and made a raid on everything in sight. They stuck their fingers in the syrup, cleaned out the cupboard of everything in the eating line, taking from one of the shelves a bottle of aloes, a remedy we always kept in the house and considered, with the accompanying peppermint and castor oil, as indispensable to the health of the family. Nothing escaped their notice, but my wife was thankful that they did not offer to molest her, but only left a frightened woman and an empty larder.
As they were leaving the place they gave an ear-splitting whoop, which meant, undoubtedly, that they might call again. I learned a little later that these same Sioux encountered a band of Chippewas at or near Shakopee. The firing could be distinctly heard at our home, eighteen miles distant.
"‘Whisky, whisky; toback, toback,’ is what they asked for when they first entered the cabin, but not finding any whisky, they took the next best thing in liquid form, according to their judgment--the bottle of aloes. If they had not been possessed of cast-iron insides, they surely [p.93] would not have been in condition to do battle with their deadly foes after partaking of this well-known drug, as they doubtless did."
Sources
- "1868-1968, Maple Plain & Independence Past-Present". Hennepin County, MN.
- Ancestry.com. Frank O' Brien, Minnesota Pioneer Sketches [database online]. Orem, UT: Ancestry.com, 1999. Original data: Library of Congress. Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910. [database on-line] Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1999. O'Brien, Frank George. Minnesota Pioneer Sketches. Minneapolis: H. H. S. Rowell, 1904.
- Pension File #382097 _ Earl Hoisington.
- Bureau of Land Management.
- 1860 Census Hennepin Co. MN.
- Historical Data Systems, comp. Military Records of Individual Civil War Soldiers. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 1999-. Data compiled by Historical Data Systems of Kingston, MA from the following list of works. Copyright 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 - Historical Data Systems Inc.P.O. Box 196 Kingston, MA 02364.
- John Dalby. Civil War Veterans. Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1999.
- 1870 Census Hennepin Co. MN. Maple Plain P.O., Independence TWP.
- 1880 Census transcription by LDS.
- 1910 Census Index. ancestry.com.
- Oregon Death Index, 1903-98. ancestry.com.
Unless otherwise indicated in the text, data is from "Hoisingtons in America" by Harry Hoisington, privately published 1935 and on file at NEHGS, Boston.