CIVIL WAR CALVARY SOLDIER
Thomas was born to Massachussetts pioneers Bradford and Maria (Hoagland) on in Western Reserve, Ohio and made the wagon ride to LeRoy, MN in 1857 and then to Wayzata to grow up near Lake Minnetonka with his six brothers and sisters.
At age 17, he enlisted in the Army and served nearly three years in the calvary. He was mustered out at Ft Snelling on June 9, 1866.
He married twice. Susie Gregg married him in 1874 and lived three years. In 1881, Thomas married her sister, Nellie Gregg, who died in 1895. Thomas had three children; Marjorie, Susan and son Harper; two grandchildren; Nellie M and Staff Sgt Phillip Thomas Wakefield.
His business interests were in the railroad with Great Northern and in farming to the north of Hutchinson and to the east toward Silver Lake. Also, Nome, Alaska was an interest. He served as a municipal judge too.
He was the last remaining member of his family. He was naed for an English abolishionist whose Oxford paper "Evils of Slavery" drew wide attention and who afterward came to the US became indentified with the movement.
Hutchinson Leader April 30, 1943
Thomas was born to Massachussetts pioneers Bradford and Maria (Hoagland) on in Western Reserve, Ohio and made the wagon ride to LeRoy, MN in 1857 and then to Wayzata to grow up near Lake Minnetonka with his six brothers and sisters.
At age 17, he enlisted in the Army and served nearly three years in the calvary. He was mustered out at Ft Snelling on June 9, 1866.
He married twice. Susie Gregg married him in 1874 and lived three years. In 1881, Thomas married her sister, Nellie Gregg, who died in 1895. Thomas had three children; Marjorie, Susan and son Harper; two grandchildren; Nellie M and Staff Sgt Phillip Thomas Wakefield.
His business interests were in the railroad with Great Northern and in farming to the north of Hutchinson and to the east toward Silver Lake. Also, Nome, Alaska was an interest. He served as a municipal judge too.
He was the last remaining member of his family. He was naed for an English abolishionist whose Oxford paper "Evils of Slavery" drew wide attention and who afterward came to the US became indentified with the movement.
Hutchinson Leader April 30, 1943
CIVIL WAR CALVARY SOLDIER
Thomas was born to Massachussetts pioneers Bradford and Maria (Hoagland) on in Western Reserve, Ohio and made the wagon ride to LeRoy, MN in 1857 and then to Wayzata to grow up near Lake Minnetonka with his six brothers and sisters.
At age 17, he enlisted in the Army and served nearly three years in the calvary. He was mustered out at Ft Snelling on June 9, 1866.
He married twice. Susie Gregg married him in 1874 and lived three years. In 1881, Thomas married her sister, Nellie Gregg, who died in 1895. Thomas had three children; Marjorie, Susan and son Harper; two grandchildren; Nellie M and Staff Sgt Phillip Thomas Wakefield.
His business interests were in the railroad with Great Northern and in farming to the north of Hutchinson and to the east toward Silver Lake. Also, Nome, Alaska was an interest. He served as a municipal judge too.
He was the last remaining member of his family. He was naed for an English abolishionist whose Oxford paper "Evils of Slavery" drew wide attention and who afterward came to the US became indentified with the movement.
Hutchinson Leader April 30, 1943
Thomas was born to Massachussetts pioneers Bradford and Maria (Hoagland) on in Western Reserve, Ohio and made the wagon ride to LeRoy, MN in 1857 and then to Wayzata to grow up near Lake Minnetonka with his six brothers and sisters.
At age 17, he enlisted in the Army and served nearly three years in the calvary. He was mustered out at Ft Snelling on June 9, 1866.
He married twice. Susie Gregg married him in 1874 and lived three years. In 1881, Thomas married her sister, Nellie Gregg, who died in 1895. Thomas had three children; Marjorie, Susan and son Harper; two grandchildren; Nellie M and Staff Sgt Phillip Thomas Wakefield.
His business interests were in the railroad with Great Northern and in farming to the north of Hutchinson and to the east toward Silver Lake. Also, Nome, Alaska was an interest. He served as a municipal judge too.
He was the last remaining member of his family. He was naed for an English abolishionist whose Oxford paper "Evils of Slavery" drew wide attention and who afterward came to the US became indentified with the movement.
Hutchinson Leader April 30, 1943
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