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


E.C. HART,  farmer, Sec. 11; P.O. Fort Atkinson; born in Oakland 
Township, in October, 1849; the son of O.P and Florinda Hart.  E.C. was 
born and raised on a farm.  He received a good common-school 
education; attended the Albion Academy.  He enlisted, in January, 1865, 
in Co. H, 49th W.V.I.; mustered out Aug. 5, 1865; returned to Oakland; 
re-engaged at farming.  Married, in November, 1872, Miss Ella 
Orrendorff, who was born in Oakland in 1852; have two children - Lena 
and Flora.  Mr. Hart owns eighty acres of land; raises a variety of crops 
and the usual stock of the county; is a Republican.


Submitted by:  L.Pingel