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


LUCIUS L. HART,  farmer, Sec. 27; P.O. Oakland Center; born in 
Virgil Township, N.Y.; born on a farm; passed his early life in Oneida 
Co., N.Y., where he attended a common school; when very young, he 
had a long distance to walk to school; one day, about noon, there was a 
very severe snow-storm; the snow was three feet deep, and it turned very 
cold; while going home from school, his hands, feet, ears and face were 
so badly frozen that he has ever since suffered from the effects.  He 
followed farming in New York.  Married, in Vernon Township, Oneida 
Co., March 6, 1844, Miss Rebecca Goodrich, a native of Madison Co., 
N.Y.; they had three children – Newton, Mary, and Hattie.  In the spring 
of 1845, he came to Wisconsin; located on Sec. 32, Oakland Township, 
where he purchased a claim of eighty acres; he endured many privations 
and worked hard; purchased another eighty-acre piece of land on Sec. 
33; he made some very tasty improvements.  In the spring of 1878, he 
sold off his land on Sec. 33, he intending to live a retired life; afterward 
purchased another farm of fifty acres, well improved, with good barns 
and a neat frame house.  Mr. Hart has led a very moral life; never drank 
any liquor or intoxicating beverage of any kind.  Republican.


Submitted by:  L.Pingel