From History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Volume II, Publ. by The Western Historical Company 1881, Page 921

REV. ALBERT A. HOSKIN.  Pastor of the Union Gospel Church, was born in Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York, August 2, 1839.  His parents settled in Rock County, Wisconsin, in 1844.  He fitted for college in the public high schools of Wisconsin, and entered Lawrence University in the Fall of 1856, but left before graduation on account of his father's death.  He enlisted in the Fall of 1861, and served ten months as a non-commissioned officer in the Sixteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Vol. Infantry.  From 1862 to 1866, he was engaged in business and literary pursuits; was married October 22, 1861, to Miss Eliza M. TAYLOR, formerly of his native town; they have had six children - only one son survives - Joseph Arthur, who is at home in the public school.  In the Fall of 1866, Mr. HOSKIN was appointed, by Elder C. D. PILLSBURY, to supply the pulpit of the M. E. Church at Milton.  He had charge of this Church two years, and then, in 1868, joined the Wisconsin Conference.  During twelve years of his ministry in the M. E. Church he has had appointments at the following places: Milton, Shopiere, Menomonee Falls, Asbury in the City of Milwaukee and Geneva Lake.  His health broke down while building a church at Geneva Lake, and he had to withdraw eighteen months from active ministry.  When able to resume his pastoral labor, no appointment was given him, because of the growing conviction that his sentiments were too liberal to be tolerated by the Methodist Church.  He soon began preaching in the South Side Kindergarten Hall, and a congregation was formed which was composed of people holding tolerant and liberal views.  A Union Gospel Church has been organized, and a church edifice and parsonage built.  In 1874, while pastor of Asbury M. E. Church in Milwaukee, Mr. HOSKIN preached a sermon, in which he taught the real Deity of Christ, and the necessarily modified views of the dogmas of the Trinity and the Atonement.  This was the first of a train of circumstances which has led to his separating from the M. E. Church.  The Union Gospel Church is founded in broad tolerance, and does not require its members to hold all the views presented by the pastor, but fellowships all who accept the Bible as man's only and sufficient rule of faith and practice, and who seek divine aid in developing holy lives.

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