Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Anna Smart Hoaglin - First Wild Rose Librarian (1930-1954)


 



















Anna Smart as born March 27, 1883 in Portage

County Wisconsin. Her parents were John Milton

Smart and Martha Smith. Her mother died when

she was two days old. She had two older brother

who stayed with their father. She went to live

with William Knights and his wife Ella Smart. Ella

was her aunt.  Her father remarried and had 2 

more children. They lived Evansville, WI. but 

they were back in Wild Rose by 1905. Anna

married Edward Hoaglin. He owned the Wild

Rose Mill and was responsible for putting 

street lights in Wild Rose in 1908.


No comments: