----Source: 1881 HISTORY OF NORTHERN WI, Chicago: The Western Historical Company, A. T. Andreas, Proprietor (grammar as is), Pg. 576

C. GHOCA, with G. W. Ghoca in the Colby House, Colby. Born in St. Clair Co., Mich., June 19, 1842. His parents moved to Detroit, where his mother died in 1855. Leaving there he came to Fond du Lac in 1856, lumbered some and went to the Green Bay shore, then north to Portage on Lake Superior and worked in the mines returned to Fond du Lac and enlisted in the 1st Wis. Infantry, Vol. Co. K, and in 1864 re-enlisted in Tennessee, was transferred to Sherman's headquarters as special mail agent, where he was till 1865. He then went to La Crosse and up to Neillsville, went to work in the woods, working in A. W. Clark's sawmill till 1870. While there was Deputy Sheriff and Justice of the Peace for two years. He came to Colby in 1873, went into business with G. W., then established a hardware store and acted Postmaster till 1876 sold out to G. J. Walbridge, and was elected Chairman of Town Board of Hull in 1875. He then bought a farm in the town of Loyal, but went west to Kansas, where he farmed till 1880, when he sold his claim and came back overland to Colby, and is now in the hotel with his cousin, Geo. W. Ghoca, as clerk. In 1869 he married Miss C. S. Stowe of Loyal. They have two children, Laura and Albert. He is an I. O. O. F. and belongs to the encampment at Neillsville, also Masons at Colby.