Hobart Stocking

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Hobart M. Stocking (April 28, 1846 – August 6, 1920) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Biography

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Stocking was born in Canton, New York[1] on April 28, 1846. He attended what was then Galesville University.[2] During the American Civil War, he was a captain[1] with the 48th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Union Army and was a commander of Mound City's post. He married a woman 30 years his junior in the 1890s, but divorced in 1898.[3] Stocking died in Saint Paul, Minnesota on August 6, 1920.[1]

Political career

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Stocking was a member of the Assembly during the 1876 and 1889 sessions.[4] Previously, he had been Receiver of the U.S. Land Office of Eau Claire, Wisconsin from 1869 to 1873. He was a Republican.

References

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