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History of Northern Wisconsin
pub: The Western Historical Company,
     Chicago, 1881


         [page 186]
         
         JOHN HOFF, with the Depere Furnace Company, Forest Junc-
       tion. Born in canton Berne, Switzerland, January 15, 1847. 
       He came to America in 1867, working in Forestville on Lake 
       Superior for a furnace company, and in 1871 went to work 
       for the Depere Furnace Company. He came to Forest Junction 
       and built charcoal kilns, having nine now and a capacity of 
       burning 6,000 cords per annum. In 1872, he married Miss 
       MAGGIE EILER, of Waukesha, Wis. They have had four children
       - CAROLINE and MAGGIE, living, and MAMIE and PETER, deceased.
       
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