Rev. Nelson A. Hitchcock From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 994.

TOWN OF WINGVILLE

REV. NELSON A. HITCHCOCK, minister of the Second Advent Christian Conference, Montfort; born in Windsor Co., Vt., July 9, 1812; when he was about 5 years of age, he removed with his parents to Otsego Co., N. Y.; in 1822, removed to Oneida Co.; in 1828, he removed with his father's family to the town of Mexico, Oswego Co. Here he was married in 1833 to Matilda Avery, born in the State of New York. He began his ministry in 1832, as an exhorter among the Methodist people; in 1836, owing to doctrinal differences, he separated from the Methodist denomination and joined the New York Central Christian Conference; in 1843, he began preaching the doctrines of the Second Advent Church, which resulted in his separating from the Christian Conference. He removed to Milwaukee in July, 1846; he preached there for a time, where he established a church; he has been preaching at different points in Wisconsin and Illinois since that time, though owing to declining health, he discontinued regular preaching in 1873; he settled in Fennimore in that year; came to Montfort in May, 1879. He has five children - Martha M. Miller, whose first husband - Willard W. Shepard - was killed at the battle of Pea Ridge; Mary M. Parker; Philo, now Pastor of a Second Advent Church at Mifflin; William A.; and Alvirus N., Pastor of the Congregational Church at Mazomanie; has lost three children.

 


This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.