Bigraphical History of La Crosse, Trempealeau and Buffalo Co., 1892 
Page 675-676.

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LEMEUL HARE, one of the well-known citizens of Trempealeau, resides on section 35, 
town 19, range 9, where he has lived since 1863. He was an early settler of La Crosse 
county, having located on a farm of Government land in the town of Holland in 1850, 
where he resided until 1863. He was born in Plattsburg, Clinton county, New York, 
in 1829, a son of Joseph Hare, also a native of Clinton county. The original ancestor 
of the family was David Hare, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He appears 
to have been a soldier in the British army in the war of the Revolution, but, unwilling 
to fight against the American colonies in their war for independence, he deserted from 
the army and later settled in Clinton county, being one of its early pioneers.  He 
married and reared a family of fourteen children, one of whom was Joseph, the father 
of Lemuel. Joseph Hare married Elsie Irish, a native of Vermont, and daughter of 
David Irish, who was also the father of fourteen children, having been twice married. 
Mr. and Mrs. Hare were the parents of seven children, four sons and three daughters. 

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They continued to live in Clinton county until 1857, when they came to Wisconsin and 
settle in La Crosse county, and later they went to Pierce county, and still later to 
rempealeau county, where they resided with their son, Lemuel, until death. All of their 
family eventually removed to La Crosse county, though at different times, except the 
eldest daughter, Mary Ann, who married George Wilson and resides in Essex county, New York.  
Lemuel was the second of the family in order of birth; Avis married D.H. Baker, and now 
lives in Pierce county, Wisconsin; Decatur is a resident of this county; Huldah married 
H. McKinny and removed to Montana, where she died several years ago; Merrill also died 
several years ago, in the State of Minnesota; he was twice married, having two children 
by his first wife and three by the second; Franklin, a resident of Trempealeau county, 
was a member of Company B, Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, in the war of the Rebellion.
	Lemuel Hare was reared to the occupation of farming, which ahs been his principal 
business through life. While living in La Crosse county, besides attending to farm duties, 
he was quite actively engaged in well digging, having been one of the earliest operators 
in that occupation in La Crosse county. While thus engaged in excavating the earth at 
considerable distances below the surface he occasionally found objects of much interest 
which seemed to be of a pre-historic character. On one occasion, at the depth of forty-seven 
feet, he found bones resembling those of the human body, and also at the same depth an 
earthen vessel having somewhat the shape of a bowl. He also found other relics of an 
interesting nature. Mr. Hare was married, in New York, to Eliza Carey, a daughter of 
Ellis and Eliza (Scott) Carey; the latter was descended from the same ancestry as was 
General Winfield Scott. Her parents died when she was a child, and she was legally 
adopted into the family of John Cochran, whose wife was her maternal aunt.  At her 
adoption she assumed the name of Cochran, and was the only child of her adopted parents. 
Her adopted mother is still living in the State of New York. Mrs. Hare is of Scotch-Irish 
ancestry, and Mr. Hare, of Holland descent. They are the parents of eight children, five 
sons and three daughters, viz.: Freeman Scott, Emmett M., Lottie E., Willie P., Effie E., 
Alta Grant, Elizabeth L. and Lemeul W. They lost a Daughter, Ella, at the age of about 
one year. Mr. Hare and family have a pleasant home, and are numbered among the intelligent 
and progressive citizens of Trempealeau county. He has 220 acres of land, and is quite 
extensively engaged in stock-raising and dairying. He also has quite an extensive apiary, 
taking great interest in the cultivation of his bees.
	Thirty-six years have passed since Mr. Hare and wife became residence of 
La Crosse county.  The country was then new, and settlers were few and far between, 
but they he lived to witness the great advancement the country has made during the 
pioneer days. They are happily situated, and enjoying the fruits of an industrious 
and well spent life.