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From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin, publ. 1901- page 981-982
JOHN B. HORE, a well-known citizen of the town of Little Grant, Grant county, was a soldier in the Civil war, and has an honorable record for bravery. His birth took place across the ocean in 1826, in Cornwall, England, from which country have come some of the best citizens of the State of Wisconsin.
Reared in his native land, Mr. HORE did not come to America until 1847. Landing in New York, he went first to New Jersey, and there engaged in mining later going to Pennsylvania, where he followed the same occupation. Subsequently he went to Maryland, thence back to New York, and then to the copper mines of Michigan, where he remained several years, but ever since the close of the Civil war he has been one of the esteemed citizens of Grant county. Mr. HORE went into the army in 1864, in Company F, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, joining his regiment in Louisville, Ky., and at once entered into active service. As it is well remembered, the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry was a part of the force that captured the fleeing Confederate president and Mr. HORE was with his regiment at that time, and had the pleasure of seeing the noted prisoner at Macon, Ga. There our subject was taken sick, from the effects of sunstroke, which rendered him unfit for any regular service. He was finally discharged in the fall of 1865.
Soon after the close of the war Mr. HORE was married to Miss Mary COFFMAN, a native of Ohio, and a daughter of Peter and Sarah COFFMAN, who had migrated to Wisconsin when Mary was about twelve years of age. Mr. and Mrs. HORE have eight children: Albert, James, Nettie, Jay and May (twins), Maria, Elizabeth and Era. During the war Mr. HORE was a faithful soldier, and since that time has won the respect of the residents of his locality as an industrious and most worthy citizen.
This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck