Birth: 10 Apr 1813 Place: Buffalo, NY

Death: Jul 1899 Place: Janesville, Rock, WI¹⁴⁰

Residence: 1880 Magnolia, Rock, WI563

Father: Job HOISINGTON - 713 (1762-1813)

Mother: Sarah KNAPP - 799 (1775-1850)

Other spouses: Lauretta H. CUTLER - 1355

Wife: Rachel COLEMAN - 819

Birth: 11 Aug 1814 Place: Wayne, Ashtabula Co., OH

Death: 11 Sep 1878 Place: Janesville, Rock, WI

Father: Nathaniel COLEMAN - 5553 (1779-1868)

Mother: Keziah JONES - 5583 (1783-1862)

1. F Child: Sophia Naomi HOISINGTON - 820

Birth: 22 Mar 1846 Place: Parkman, Geauga Co., OH

Death: Place: Janesville, Dane, WI¹³⁸

Spouse: Henry Hubbard²²⁹ GUERNSEY - 1356

Marriage: 1866¹³⁸

Wife: Lauretta H. CUTLER - 1355

Birth: About 1827⁵⁶³ Place: Wayne, OH

 "The youngest child, William, who was only 8 months old when his father was killed, was partially blind. He was helped by his brother Henry to complete school, after which his mother, Sarah, moved with him to Oberlin College in Ohio, where William graduated and became a professor and a Congregational Minister."³³⁵

"...The Oberlin Collegiate Institute (later Oberlin College opened in Dec. 1833, and William Hoisington was one of 29 men and 15 women to enroll in the first term of the college. [Oberlin was just about the first college in the US to accept women]. My family history states that William's older brother, Rev. Henry Richard Hoisington 1st, took William into his household and tutored him, preparatory to William's entering Oberlin. " ^A

Note: For first hand views of life at Oberlin in the 1810's (several of them mention William Hoysington) from a Handbook on the Oberlin Jubilee.

"William had been partially blind since birth but with the aid of powerful glasses, made great progress in Hebrew and Greek. When William went to Oberlin, then Rev. Henry Richard H. was free to go with his wife as missionaries to Ceylon. William's twice-widowed mother, Sarah Knapp Hoisington Munger, whose 2nd husband Asahel Munger had died in 1827, bought a house in Oberlin, and kept house for her partially blind son.

According to Oberlin archives, William Henry H. taught in the Preparatory Dept. (high school level) when he was a college junior. He studied at Oberlin from 1833 to 1838, with the exception of one year non-attendance. He then entered the Theological Seminary, and studied from 1839 to 1842. He apparently did not receive a degree, nor is there a record that he was ordained. However, he did serve as minister to various churches. " ^A

On 28 Jan 1845, William married Rachel Coleman in Lindenville (later called Wayne), OH. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Ephraim T. Woodruff19 Rachel, had inherited property from her mother, including 24 acres of land in Lindenville. They lived there until at least the end of 1862, as Lucy Ward mentions in her diary that she visited "Mr. Hoisington" at Christmas, Dec. 25, 1862 in Lindenville.

Sometime between 1863 and 1866, Rachel and William moved to Wisconsin. Their daughter, Sophia Naomi, was married to Henry Guernsey there in 1866.

In 1870, William and Rachel went west. Although apparently they intended to eventually go to Oregon, perhaps the reason they went first to San Francisco was to visit William's sister, Sarah Hoisington Buxton who was living in CA.

"Railway Passenger Lists of Overland Trains to SF and the West", Rasmussen, p. 57.

"The following passengers departed Ogden, Utah on Oct. 26, 1870 on the west-bound Overland Train. These passengers arrived in San Francisco on Oct. 28, 1870

Wm. H. Hoisenton and wife (Janesville, Wisconsin)"

"In April, 1871, William's older brother, Samuel wrote to their nephew Lyman Draper, that "we have had letters from Brother Wm. frequently since they left for Oregon. They were quite pleased with the country at first, but when the rainy season came on and the dampness prevailed they did not like it so well. They long to get back to Wisconsin..." So apparently some time between 1862 and 1871, Rev. William and his wife Rachel had lived in Wisconsin. William's brother, Samuel T. Hoisington, was a prosperous farmer in the town of Dane, Dane Co., Wisconsin." ^A

Rachel died 11 Sep 1878 in Janesville, Rock, WI.

William married 2nd in 1880, Lauretta H. Cutler in Page Co. IA.

"In William's later years, he was not well off, and his nephew Lyman Draper wrote a petition for him to the U.S. Government, to try to get him a pension on the basis that his father Job had been killed in the War of 1812. At this time, 1886, William is described as totally blind, in his 74th year, and in necessitous and dependent circumstances.

In 1886, William, in his 74th year, applied for a government pension, and gave his residence as Rochelle, Illinois, in Ogle county. A pension was also requested for his older sister, Mrs. Sarah Buxton "of California", nearly 82 years old. In the petition, both were described as 'in necessitous and dependent circumstances.' 'aged and needy.' " ^A

William died in 1899.

Wife's Notes...

Loretta -

SOME EARLY "MARRIAGES" of PAGE COUNTY, IOWA (1844 to 1899) INDEXED BY BRIDE

Bride: Last Name, First Name Mar. Date Groom: Last Name, First Name

CUTLER H. 11-Jul-1880 HOISINGTON WILLIAM H., Rev.

V-4-5 AVERY, H. Rev. Source: CLARINDA HERALD

Unless otherwise noted, data is from "Hoisingtons in America" by Harry Hoisington.²²

¹⁹ Hoisington/Munger Bible 1823, transcribed in Branches & Twigs Vol 19, No 2

¹³⁸ Graceland Cemetery Listing in USGENWEB Archives for SD

¹⁴⁰ e-mail from Jonalee Slackta 9/30/98

²²⁹ SD State Vital Records (online at http://www.state.sd.us/doh/vitalrec/birthrecords/index.cfm>

³³⁵ Folwell/Hoisington Descendants Newsletter, March 1999

⁵⁶³ 1880 Federal Census, Magnolia, Rock, WI

^A e-mails from Maida Follini, descendant of Wm. Henry Hoisington, to the Hoisington Mailing List.