“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


E.A. HART,  farmer; P.O. Oakland; born in Oneida Co., N.Y., March 3, 
1825, where he received a common-school education, and lived on his 
parents’ farm till 11 years old, when he commenced to labor for 
strangers; followed farming until 23 years old, then having accumulated 
$400 by hard labor, emigrated West and located in Oakland, Jefferson 
Co., Wis., in September, 1848.  Married, Feb. 12, 1850, Marinda E. 
Goodrich; they have five children – Harriet W., Jessie, Florence, Elenora 
and Mary.  In 1853, he was Assessor; in 1854, on Board of Supervisors; 
in 1864, Justice of the Peace.  He and his wife are members of the Free-
Will Baptist Church; owns eighty-three acres of land, raising all the 
general farm stock and usual grains.


Submitted by:  L.Pingel