MOOT, Hartman

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 164

Hartman MOOT, butcher, Alma [Buffalo County, Wisconsin], was born 11 August 
1854 in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. He came to Wisconsin in 1873 and 
settled in Alma. He [Hartman MOOT] married Louisa KIRCHNER, a native of 
Germany. [Hartman MOOT is enumerated in the 1880 census of Alma, Buffalo 
County, Wisconsin, in the household of John W. TESTER: Hartman MOOT, age 
twenty-four, single, butcher, born in Pennsylvania, about 1856 by his census 
age, to parents both born in Germany. The TESTER family consists of John W., 
age thirty-five, hardware merchant, born in Switzerland, his wife Julia, age 
twenty-one, born in Wisconsin; his daughter, Irla L., age one; and one other 
boarder besides Hartman MOOT, also unrelated to John W. TESTER, namely John 
J. BERGIN, age fifty-eight, laborer, born in Switzerland.]

[Since Hartman MOOT is single in this census, he must have married Louisa 
KIRCHNER between the enumeration of the 1880 census and the date in 1881 when 
the text was published. The August KIRCHNER family is enumerated in the 1880 
census of Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, and appears to contain Louisa, the 
future wife of Hartman MOOT: August KIRCHNER, age fifty-one, butcher (same 
occupation as Hartman MOOT), born in Prussia, about 1829 by his census age, 
to parents also born in Prussia; Bena KIRCHNER, his wife, age forty-three, 
born in Prussia (by her age about 1847) to parents also born there; daughter 
Louisa KIRCHNER, age nineteen, single, a telegraph apprentice, born in 
Prussia (by her census age about 1851) to parents born in Prussia; and son 
August KIRCHNER, age eleven, born in Wisconsin, about 1869. The proximity of 
these households suggests there was likely contact between Hartman MOOT and 
this Louisa KIRCHNER. The only other Louisa KIRCHNER in the 1880 census of 
Buffalo County, a resident of Waumandee Township, is the thirty-two-year-old, 
Swiss-born, wife of Charles KIRCHNER, and the mother of his five children. 
Also in this Charles KIRCHNER household is his father, John KIRCHNER, and his 
uncle, Augustus KIRCHNER. Were John and Charles KIRCHNER related to August 
KIRCHNER? Was Hartman MOOT the Hartman MOOT who died (submitter did not view 
death record) on 22 February 1932 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois?]

[The only other MOOT submitter found in the 1880 Buffalo County census was 
also in Alma: Andrus (Andrew?) MOOT, age twenty-four, single, born in 
Pennsylvania (as was Hartman MOOT), about 1856 by his census age, to parents 
born in Pennsylvania. Andrus was enumerated with fifty-nine others, employed 
in logging at the Beef Slough works, where logs were sorted and boomed before 
sending them down the Mississippi in huge rafts. Were Hartman and Andrus 
MOOT related? Variations in the surname MOOT include MOOTS, MOOTZ, MOOTE. 
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