William H. Hoxie was the husband of Ellen M. Pack; son of Benjamin Tobey Hoxie and Ruth Peck Hoxie; brother of Herbert Mallory Hoxie, Melissa P. Hoxie Fagen, Melville Benjamin Hoxie, and Rose M. Hoxie Stevens Hoyt; father of Ruth M. Hoxie Woodward Armstrong, Herbert Oscar Hoxie, Wem L. Hoxie Duncanson, and Edwin Clay Hoxie; and father-in-law of Kattie Darrah Hoxie.
Adams County Free Press, Corning, Adams, Iowa, Wednesday, September 30, 1903.
Another old soldier has answered the last call and has been laid away. On Friday morning, Capt. W. H. Hoxie, after an illness of years' duration, passed away at his home in this city. He was born at Montrose, Iowa, July 22, 1840. Four years later his parents removed to Des Moines, where most of his boyhood was spent.
At the age of ten his mother, the father having died, took him to Bennington, Vermont, to school. After finishing his work in school he returned to Des Moines and from there went to Racine, Wis., where he learned the printer's trade. He was for a time associated with his brother-in-law, A. J. Steven [Andrew J. Stevens], in the publication of the Commonwealth at Des Moines.
He was at Panora, Guthrie county, when the news reached him that a company was being recruited at Des Moines to help put down the rebellion. He locked up the office, put the key over the door and walked to Des Moines where he enlisted in Company D, Second Iowa infantry, on May 4, 1861. He was promoted to be captain of Company B, Seventeenth Iowa, and resigned Nov. 25, 1862, on account of wounds received at the battle of Iuka. He was commissioned captain of Company M, Eighth Iowa cavalry, Sept. 30, 1863. He was wounded July 30, 1864, and received his discharge March 11, 1865.
Mr. Hoxie was married July 22, 1864, at Nashville, Tenn. to Miss Ellen M. Peck who with four children survives him. The children are Herbert and Clay Hoxie, Mrs. Ruth Armstrong and Mrs. W. Dunkinson.
Mr. Hoxie bought the Gazette of this city in 1872 and removed to Corning in August of that year. He was a strong and forceful writer and a man of strong convictions and for many years his paper and he himself were a power in the community. The ill health of recent years was a terrible affliction to one of his activity of mind and body. For years he has been confined to the house and the confinement was even a harder trial than his intense suffering. He was a gallant soldier, a patriotic citizen and a kind hearted and generous man.
The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at 3:30. The services were conducted by Rey. W. H. Shipman and Llewllyn Post G. A. R. escorted the remains to the grave in Walnut Grove cemetery and had charge of the services there.
Adams County Free Press, Corning, Adams, Iowa, Wednesday, September 30, 1903.
Another old soldier has answered the last call and has been laid away. On Friday morning, Capt. W. H. Hoxie, after an illness of years' duration, passed away at his home in this city. He was born at Montrose, Iowa, July 22, 1840. Four years later his parents removed to Des Moines, where most of his boyhood was spent.
At the age of ten his mother, the father having died, took him to Bennington, Vermont, to school. After finishing his work in school he returned to Des Moines and from there went to Racine, Wis., where he learned the printer's trade. He was for a time associated with his brother-in-law, A. J. Steven [Andrew J. Stevens], in the publication of the Commonwealth at Des Moines.
He was at Panora, Guthrie county, when the news reached him that a company was being recruited at Des Moines to help put down the rebellion. He locked up the office, put the key over the door and walked to Des Moines where he enlisted in Company D, Second Iowa infantry, on May 4, 1861. He was promoted to be captain of Company B, Seventeenth Iowa, and resigned Nov. 25, 1862, on account of wounds received at the battle of Iuka. He was commissioned captain of Company M, Eighth Iowa cavalry, Sept. 30, 1863. He was wounded July 30, 1864, and received his discharge March 11, 1865.
Mr. Hoxie was married July 22, 1864, at Nashville, Tenn. to Miss Ellen M. Peck who with four children survives him. The children are Herbert and Clay Hoxie, Mrs. Ruth Armstrong and Mrs. W. Dunkinson.
Mr. Hoxie bought the Gazette of this city in 1872 and removed to Corning in August of that year. He was a strong and forceful writer and a man of strong convictions and for many years his paper and he himself were a power in the community. The ill health of recent years was a terrible affliction to one of his activity of mind and body. For years he has been confined to the house and the confinement was even a harder trial than his intense suffering. He was a gallant soldier, a patriotic citizen and a kind hearted and generous man.
The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at 3:30. The services were conducted by Rey. W. H. Shipman and Llewllyn Post G. A. R. escorted the remains to the grave in Walnut Grove cemetery and had charge of the services there.
William H. Hoxie was the husband of Ellen M. Pack; son of Benjamin Tobey Hoxie and Ruth Peck Hoxie; brother of Herbert Mallory Hoxie, Melissa P. Hoxie Fagen, Melville Benjamin Hoxie, and Rose M. Hoxie Stevens Hoyt; father of Ruth M. Hoxie Woodward Armstrong, Herbert Oscar Hoxie, Wem L. Hoxie Duncanson, and Edwin Clay Hoxie; and father-in-law of Kattie Darrah Hoxie.
Adams County Free Press, Corning, Adams, Iowa, Wednesday, September 30, 1903.
Another old soldier has answered the last call and has been laid away. On Friday morning, Capt. W. H. Hoxie, after an illness of years' duration, passed away at his home in this city. He was born at Montrose, Iowa, July 22, 1840. Four years later his parents removed to Des Moines, where most of his boyhood was spent.
At the age of ten his mother, the father having died, took him to Bennington, Vermont, to school. After finishing his work in school he returned to Des Moines and from there went to Racine, Wis., where he learned the printer's trade. He was for a time associated with his brother-in-law, A. J. Steven [Andrew J. Stevens], in the publication of the Commonwealth at Des Moines.
He was at Panora, Guthrie county, when the news reached him that a company was being recruited at Des Moines to help put down the rebellion. He locked up the office, put the key over the door and walked to Des Moines where he enlisted in Company D, Second Iowa infantry, on May 4, 1861. He was promoted to be captain of Company B, Seventeenth Iowa, and resigned Nov. 25, 1862, on account of wounds received at the battle of Iuka. He was commissioned captain of Company M, Eighth Iowa cavalry, Sept. 30, 1863. He was wounded July 30, 1864, and received his discharge March 11, 1865.
Mr. Hoxie was married July 22, 1864, at Nashville, Tenn. to Miss Ellen M. Peck who with four children survives him. The children are Herbert and Clay Hoxie, Mrs. Ruth Armstrong and Mrs. W. Dunkinson.
Mr. Hoxie bought the Gazette of this city in 1872 and removed to Corning in August of that year. He was a strong and forceful writer and a man of strong convictions and for many years his paper and he himself were a power in the community. The ill health of recent years was a terrible affliction to one of his activity of mind and body. For years he has been confined to the house and the confinement was even a harder trial than his intense suffering. He was a gallant soldier, a patriotic citizen and a kind hearted and generous man.
The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at 3:30. The services were conducted by Rey. W. H. Shipman and Llewllyn Post G. A. R. escorted the remains to the grave in Walnut Grove cemetery and had charge of the services there.
Adams County Free Press, Corning, Adams, Iowa, Wednesday, September 30, 1903.
Another old soldier has answered the last call and has been laid away. On Friday morning, Capt. W. H. Hoxie, after an illness of years' duration, passed away at his home in this city. He was born at Montrose, Iowa, July 22, 1840. Four years later his parents removed to Des Moines, where most of his boyhood was spent.
At the age of ten his mother, the father having died, took him to Bennington, Vermont, to school. After finishing his work in school he returned to Des Moines and from there went to Racine, Wis., where he learned the printer's trade. He was for a time associated with his brother-in-law, A. J. Steven [Andrew J. Stevens], in the publication of the Commonwealth at Des Moines.
He was at Panora, Guthrie county, when the news reached him that a company was being recruited at Des Moines to help put down the rebellion. He locked up the office, put the key over the door and walked to Des Moines where he enlisted in Company D, Second Iowa infantry, on May 4, 1861. He was promoted to be captain of Company B, Seventeenth Iowa, and resigned Nov. 25, 1862, on account of wounds received at the battle of Iuka. He was commissioned captain of Company M, Eighth Iowa cavalry, Sept. 30, 1863. He was wounded July 30, 1864, and received his discharge March 11, 1865.
Mr. Hoxie was married July 22, 1864, at Nashville, Tenn. to Miss Ellen M. Peck who with four children survives him. The children are Herbert and Clay Hoxie, Mrs. Ruth Armstrong and Mrs. W. Dunkinson.
Mr. Hoxie bought the Gazette of this city in 1872 and removed to Corning in August of that year. He was a strong and forceful writer and a man of strong convictions and for many years his paper and he himself were a power in the community. The ill health of recent years was a terrible affliction to one of his activity of mind and body. For years he has been confined to the house and the confinement was even a harder trial than his intense suffering. He was a gallant soldier, a patriotic citizen and a kind hearted and generous man.
The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at 3:30. The services were conducted by Rey. W. H. Shipman and Llewllyn Post G. A. R. escorted the remains to the grave in Walnut Grove cemetery and had charge of the services there.
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