Prosser, Col. William Farrand.  "A History of the Puget Sound Country, Its
Resources, Its Commerce and its People."  New York and Chicago: Lewis Publishing
Co., 1903.  p. 140.
 
GEORGE J. HOHL

     a prosperous dealer in hay and grain, was born February 5, 1863 in Hokah,
Houston county, Minnesota, and is a son of Jacob Hohl, a native of Germany, who
came to this country as a boy. By trade he was a plowsmith, and died in 1864 in
the service of the federal army, Fifty-second Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. His
wife was Catherine Buehler Hohl, a native of Germany, now living in Hokah,
Minnesota. The children born to Jacob Hohl and wife were: John J., a land agent
at Minong, Wisconsin; William R., a railroad man in southern Minnesota; Henry L,
a wholesale charcoal dealer in Houston, Texas; Charles W., land and oil agent in
Houston. Texas; George J.; Emma, wife of W. H. Whittaker, job printer of St.
Paul; Miss Katie A., at home in Hokah, Minnesota.
     George J. Hohl was educated in the public schools of Hokah, and graduated
from the high school in 1881. After this he spent one year in the Wilson
Business College at Lacrosse, Wisconsin. His next step was the serving of an
apprenticeship in a flour mill at Hokah, and he then went to Duluth, Minnesota,
where he worked for the St. Paul & Pacific Coal Company as foreman. In 1886 he
located at Bellingham Bay, when there were very few people in this locality, and
as soon as the town of Fairhaven was organized he moved here, and took up a
pre-emption claim one and one-half miles from the city limits. In 1897 he was
one of the stampeders to Dawson, going over the White Pass or Skagway trail,
and, after two years, went the second time with a six-dog team and drove six
hundred miles, and was frozen in with the thermometer registering fifty degrees
below zero. The first winter he mined, and the second year he operated a
sawmill. In 1899 he returned to Fairhaven and engaged in a wholesale and retail
grain, hay and feed business.
     Politically Mr. Hohl is a Republican; was school director of Fairhaven from
1891 to 1897, and has always taken an active part in local affairs, serving as
delegate to county conventions. During the year 1901 he was mayor of Fairhaven,
and held that office in a manner to inspire respect and confidence. In addition
to his other interests Mr. Hohl was one of the organizers of the Alger Oil and
Mineral Company of Fairhaven, which was established in 1901 with a capital of
three hundred thousand dollars; he was made its president and general manager
and has held the position ever since.
     On November 18, 1890, Mr. Hohl was married to Mrs. Nellie Eggloff, a
daughter of M. J. Rogers, of Saginaw, Michigan, and a native of Chicago, coming
of an old American family of Scotch ancestry. One son has been born to Mr. and
Mrs. Hohl, namely: Ross J. Eggloff Hohl, aged nineteen years. Mr. Hohl is a
member of the Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen and Ancient Order of United
Workmen, and is very popular in all these organizations. Through steadfast
industry, uprightness of character and an ability to make his work count, Mr.
Hohl has steadily mounted the ladder of fortune, and is numbered among the
successful men of Fairhaven.


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Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in January 2010 by Diana Smith.
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