Hoard Township

Clark County
Townships

Hoard Township

written and contributed by Kay Scholtz <scholtz@tznet.com>

Note: There are presently 33 townships in Clark County.
Thirty-two townships are of standard size each covering six square miles.
The Township of Foster includes two 6 square mile areas.

The Township of Hoard was organized in 1889 being created from area taken from the Town of Mayville. The namesake of Hoard was Wisconsin ex-Governor, William Dempster Hoard. Hoard was born in Stockbridge, NY, and came to Wisconsin in 1857. He joined WI 4th Infantry at the onset of the Civil War and was stricken with break bone fever in 1862. Hoard re-enlisted in 1864 serving until the war's end. He was well known for creating the still existing national farm magazine at Fort Atkinson, WI, known as "Hoard's Dairyman" that had it's beginning in 1885. In 1915 W. D. Hoard was named as Wisconsin's most distinguished citizen at the San Francisco World's Fair. Hoard died in 1918.