Hobart Stocking facts for kids

Hobart M. Stocking (April 28, 1846 – August 6, 1920) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Biography

Stocking was born in Canton, New York on April 28, 1846. He attended what was then Galesville University. During the American Civil War, he was a captain with the 48th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Union Army and was a commander of Mound City's post. He married a woman 30 years his junior in the 1890s, but divorced in 1898. Stocking died in Saint Paul, Minnesota on August 6, 1920.

Political career

Stocking was a member of the Assembly during the 1876 and 1889 sessions. Previously, he had been Receiver of the U.S. Land Office of Eau Claire, Wisconsin from 1869 to 1873. He was a Republican.