Arthur Hoard
Regions: Munsville, Madison County, N.Y - Dodge & Jefferson Co., WI
| From Memorial and Genealogical Record of Dodge and
Jefferson Counties, Wisconsin, publ. 1894 - Page 225-226
ARTHUR R. HOARD. Most admirably conducted establishments are the creameries owned and operated by Arthur R. HOARD in Dane, Rock and Jefferson Counties. They supply all patrons with an excellent grade of butter and their trademark is a synonym of superiority. These buildings stand as monuments erected by the strong hand of industry, and give proof of man's superior intelligence, untiring energy, inventive genius and practical skill. Few articles of food are so valuable to mankind as this product, and it would now be almost an impossibility to do without it. Citizens of nearly every community have come to realize the value of this product and of its proper keeping, and as a natural result storehouses have been erected all over the country. In that section of the country in which Mr. HOARD resides there has been a very strenuous effort made to develop the creamery interests to the highest perfection of skill, and no better or more perfectly conducted creameries can be found in the State that those of which Mr. HOARD is the proprietor. He has now in operation one in Fort Atkinson and ten others within a radius of twelve miles therefrom. These institutions were founded about 1886, and they have long since made the section in which they are located famous as a butter supply point. Mr. HOARD was born in Munsville, Madison County, N.Y., October 3, 1863, his father being *W. D. HOARD, ex-governor of Wisconsin, a sketch of whom appears in this work. He received his education in the schools of Fort Atkinson, and after finishing his education went to Pierre, Dak., where he spent one year, then returned to Fort Atkinson and entered the employ of Cornish, Curtis & Green as traveling salesman. After remaining thus employed for two years he induced the proprietors of the Elgin Creamery Company to help him establish a creamery at Fort Atkinson, of which he became the manager and after a time the sole proprietor, and from that humble beginning has sprung his mammoth business. Although his capital was extremely small, he believed in the proverb that "nothing ventured nothing gained," and although many predicted for him nothing but failure, the past years of undeviating success have shown his wisdom in venturing out for himself. Although he is young in years his name has become well known all over Uncle Sam's dominion, as a manufacturer of the best grades of creamery butter, and his name is a household word in many appreciative families, and his trademark a guarantee of purity, superiority and stable reliability. He supplies a valuable retail trade and his product is valued by some of the leading caterers of Chicago and other cities, and has among his patrons Lyman J. GAGE, Mrs. Potter PALMER, Union League Club and Kohlsaat's restaurant of Chicago. The history of this business shows that it has been developed in an industrious, shrewd and skillful manner, and while contemporaries have been perfectly satisfied with mediocrity his motto has been "Excelsior." Mr. HOARD's creameries were the first in the State operated under the separator system and the first in the United States to adopt the Babcock Test and pay for milk according to butter value. They are fitted up with the most modern and best machinery that money can buy and employment is given to about thirty men, and as the business is still young it would be difficult to say to what lengths it may be extended, but under the management of Mr. HOARD it will be safe to say that it will constantly increase. In connection with his business he has a large cold storage house, 40x130 feet, two stories in height and built of brick. It contains all the features of modern cold storage and contains at the present time 1,000 tons of ice. In politics Mr. HOARD has always been a stanch Republican and at the last election he was elected mayor of Fort Atkinson. Socially he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Free Masons and the Modern Woodmen. He is a benedict and in 1886 led to the altar Miss Grace E. McPHERSON. Submitted by Carol |
*William Dempster Hoard
(from Wisconsin Its Story book)
