HOEFLING, William

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 163

William HOEFLING, grain dealer [Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin], was born 05 
January 1845 in Germany. He came to America in 1862, and went to Manitowoc 
[Manitowoc County, Wisconsin], and enlisted in Company F, Twenty-sixth 
Wisconsin Infantry, and served until the close of the war. [The Civil War 
officially ended in April 1865.] He afterwards attended college in Milwaukee 
[Milwaukee County, Wisconsin], and then was employed as a bookkeeper in 
Chicago [Cook County, Illinois]. In the summer of 1869 he made a trip to 
Germany, and on his return he located in this county [Buffalo]. The 
following spring he established his present business. He has been Justice of 
the Peace, two years, and Village Clerk, four years.

In 1874 he [William HOEFLING] married ]Miss?] Addie SALTMAN, a native of 
Germany. [Other common spellings of SALTMAN are SALTZMAN, SALSMAN, and 
SALTSMAN.] They have three children: Ella, Orma, and Luida. [William 
HOEFLING and family are enumerated in the 1880 census of Alma, Buffalo 
County, Wisconsin (p 321). William is age thirty-five, a grain dealer, born 
in Germany, from his census age about 1845, to parents both born in Germany. 
His census age supports the year given for his birth in the biography. His 
wife, whose name is given as Ida (Addie or Ida could be a middle name), is 
twenty-seven years old, born in Germany, about 1853, to parents both born in 
Germany. In the family are three children, all born in Wisconsin to parents 
who were both born in Germany: (1) Ella C., age four, who by her census age 
was born about 1876; (2) Orma A., age two, born about 1878; and Cosima R., 
age two months, who may be the "Luida" mentioned in the biography. Also 
enumerated in the family are William HOEFLING's unmarried brother-in-law, 
Julius BENDER, age sixteen, born in Indiana, about 1864, to parents born in 
Germany, a warehouse worker; an unmarried sister-in-law named Catharine 
BENDER, age fourteen, born in Indiana, about 1866, to German-born parents. 
These relationships suggest a sister of Julius HOEFLING may have married a 
man whose surname was BENDER before 1865. Completing the household is a 
sixteen-year-old unmarried female servant, unrelated to William HOEFLING, 
born in Wisconsin to parents also born in Wisconsin. Bracketed material 
added by submitter (who is not researching these surnames) to support and 
clarify information given in the biography and to raise questions.]

Submitted by Cathy Kubly