Lewis H. Hotchkiss    

LEWIS H. HOTCHKISS, farmer, P.O. Mosiertown, was born October 6, 1829, in Cussewago Township, this county. His father, Alvin Hotchkiss, son of Joel Hotchkiss, married Miss Lettie Heard, daughter of George Heard, and they now live near Edinboro, Erie Co., Penn. Our subject married Miss Hannah E. Huckleberry of Venango Township, this county, March 15, 1855, and settled where they now reside. Their children were Mrs. Adora Donahue, Lewis E., U.S. Grant, Charles, Devirn, Pearl Grace, Alvin (deceased), Estella (deceased). Mr. Hotchkiss enlisted February 25, 1864, in Battery H, Third Pennsylvania Light Artillery, serving in the Maryland and Virginia campaigns, and received an honorable discharge July 25, 1865. He had six brothers (making seven with himself) in the war of the Rebellion, and they served for periods of from six months to four years. He has since devoted his energies to his farm, which now consists of 100 acres, having bought fifty of it when a boy, and fifty since the war, and has improved it. He pays considerable attention to the culture and improvement of fine stock. Mr. Hotchkiss has served the township as Supervisor and Treasurer of School Board. In politics he is a Republican.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885. View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com.  Free access  More Crawford County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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