Milton H. Hockman

As printed in 1908

MILTON H. HOCKMAN, a highly respected citizen of German Township, who is engaged in general farming and stock-raising on a farm of eighty-eight and a half acres, located six miles northwest of >Springfield on the Joel Ebersole Road, was born in Shenandoah County, Virginia, November 11, 1852, and is a son of Samuel R., and Anna Eliza (Goehenour) Hockman. He spent his early boyhood days in Virginia, coming to Ohio in 1867 when fifteen years of age, with his parents, who first located near Urbana, Champaign County. His father was a miller by trade and operated a grist-mill in Virginia until his removal to Ohio, when he entered the employ of Parker

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Mr. Hockmau learned the miller's trade and was in partnership with his father from 1876 until 1888, when he sold his interest, finding himself unable to stand the work, and in the spring of 1888 came to his present farm, first buying a tract of thirty-four and a half acres, to which he later added twenty-four acres, and again thirty acres in the fall of 1907. Here he has since followed general farming and stock-raising and has made many important improvements on the place, including the remodeling of the buildings.

Mr. Hockman was married December 23, 1879, to Ella Dietrick, a daughter of Jacob Dietrick, and they have three children, Ada Frances; Nora, who is the wife of Irvin B. Shoup of Northampton and the mother of three children, Kennith, Carl, and Ellen; and Ida M. Hockman. Mr. Hockman attends the Dunkard Church, of which his wife is a member.

As printed in 20th century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and representative citizens (1908). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.