Biography of Solomon Hose, page 993.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Solomon Hose, farmer, sections 23 and 24, Wilmington Township, was born in 
Summit County, Ohio, Jan. 1, 1849, a son of Solomon Hose, a native of 
Maryland, who settled in De Kalb County in 1856, and later moved to Steuben 
County, where he now lives.  Mr. Hose was reared a farmer and has always 
devoted his attention to agriculture and stock-raising, at which he has been 
very successful.  He now owns a fine farm of 107 acres, with a good residence 
and farm buildings, which he rents, boarding with his tenants.  Mr. Hose 
enlisted in 1864 in the Eighty-eighth Indiana Infantry, Company H, and 
served till June, 1865, participating in all the engagements of the regiment 
after he joined it, among them, Kenesaw Mountain, Buzzard’s roost, Peach-
Tree Creek, the Atlanta campaign, Bentonville, Savannah and Resaca.  He was 
but fifteen years of age when he enlisted, but was brave and made a good 
soldier.  He is a member of the Grand Army of Republic.

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