Hoier, Anton

Other Events:

• 1880 Census: 1880, Ellington, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
• Biography: 1911; History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin Page 1135
• Obituary: 23 May 1930; Appleton Post Crescent

Notes:

1880 Census:
F. J. Hoyer 52
Katie Hoyer 47
Frank Hoyer 21
Theresa Hoyer 18
Wenzel Hoyer 16
Chas. Hoyer 14
Antone Hoyer 12
Matilda Hoyer 10

Biography:
ANTON HOIER, who has been a lifelong resident of Ellington township, Outagamie county, and is now engaged in cultivating the soil of a fine general and dairy farm, was born June 17, 1866, in Ellington township, and is a son of Frank Joseph and Catherine Hoier, natives of Germany who came to the United States with their six children, settling at once in Ellington township, where both spent the remainder of their lives, Mr. Hoier passing away in 1887 and his wife in 1905. They had two other children after locating in the United States, of whom one was Anton, and he received his education in the district schools in the neighborhood of his father's farm. As soon as he was able to do his share of the work on the home place, he began to assist his father, spending his spare time in attendance at school and gaining a good, practical education. As a youth and young man he worked for his father, and when the latter's health failed, the management of the home place fell to the lot of young Hoier, who purchased the property in 1903. Since that time he has made numerous improvements, including the erection of a good, comfortable modern residence, in which he lives with his youngest sister, Matilda, who keeps house for him, Mr. Hoier being unmarried. He has carried on general farming and dairy work, and his operations have been so successful as to stamp him as one of the able agriculturists of this section. He is a good neighbor and a public spirited citizen, and has the confidence, esteem and friendship of his fellow townsmen.

Obituary:
ANTON HOIER Funeral services for Anton Hoier, 62, who committed suicide Thursday morning, will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon from the home of his nephew, Robert Burns, town of Ellington, with the Rev. L. T. Foreman in charge. Burial will be at Hortonville. The body will be removed from the I. E. Schmidt undertaking parlors, Hortonville, to the home Saturday morning. Hoier, an unmarried man living with his nephew, shot himself through the heart with a shotgun Thursday morning. The body was found by Mr. Burns at 12:30 when he went in search of his uncle. It is thought that approaching blindness caused the despondency that prompted the act. Hoier, who came to this country from Austria at the age of seven weeks, is survived by three, brothers, Frank and Wenzel of Hortonville and Charles of Texas, and two sisters, Mrs. Peter Schmit of Appleton Mrs. Fred Barnum of Stephensville.
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