(From HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES, IOWA, 1883, Page 793)

William B. Hildreth was born in Ver­mont, March 27, 1839. When he was ten years old his parents moved to Canada and remained sixteen years. In 1865 he went to Osage, Iowa. He. followed farm­ing and carpentering five years. He then purchased 140 acres on section 1, Lincoln township, Worth county, where he has since lived. He married Abagail Hitchcock, March, 1863. She died in 1873, leaving five children-Carl C., Clarence C., Lillie M., Jane B. and Wil­liam P. He was again married, in 1874, to Elizabeth E. Cooper, a native of Mich­igan, born in 1845. They have one child-Scott L. She has one child, Cal­vin Cooper, by her former marriage. They are members of the M. E. Church. He is a member of the A. O. U. W. He has been treasurer of township four years and school director two years, also town trustee.

Transcribed by Gordon Felland, March 11, 2006