From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 762. City of La Crosse JACOB HOHL, plasterer, residence No. 67 Fifth street; has been a resident of La Crosse since June 2, 1866; he was born in Baden, Germany, in 1834, son of Christian Hohl, who died in Baden in 1853. Mr. Hohl came to the United States in 1866, and settled in La Crosse; his first wife died on the ocean on the way to America, and he was the second time married in August, 1874, to Miss Tina Winsky, of La Crosse; he has three children - George, Annie and Mary; the oldest by the first wife. He learned wagon-making and cigar-making in Germany, and since coming to the United States, learned plastering, barbering and gunsmithing. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]