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Hoag, Truman H

merchant, congressman, was born April 9, 1816, in Manlius, N. Y. In 1868 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-first congress. He died Feb. 5, 1870, in Washington.

HOAGLAND, CORNELIUS NEVIUS, manufacturer, was born Nov. 23, 1828, in Somerset county, N. J. During the war he was made first lieutenant, and subsequently was surgeon of the seventyfirst Ohio. In 1887 he bought the business of the Cleveland Baking Powder Co., and became president and general manager of the company. In 1887 the he Labora- Hoagland founded tory in Brooklyn for original research in the higher branches of medical science, with special departments in physiology and bacteriology, the cost, with equipments, exceeding $100,000. ments, exceeding $100,000.

FEL, president of the Royal Baking Powder Co., was born June 19, 1841, in Miami county, Ohio. In 1866 he founded the Royal Baking Powder Co., and has given the product of this concern such world wide popularity through stupendous advertising, that its trade mark alone is In 1880 he now valued at $10,000,000. served as presidential elector, and he is a member of the chamber of commerce. man, was born in Ohio.

He was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1851; and was subsequently appointed United States judge for the territory of Washington. pointed United States judge for the terrilegislator, was born April 29, 1848, in Albion, Mich. He has been mayor of Albion, Mich., and for two terms was a member of the Michigan state legislature. a bion, Mich., and for two terms was a yer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 21, 1816, in Concord, Mass. He was appointed a judge of the court of common

In 1859 he was elected pleas. judge of the supreme court. In 1869 he entered the cabinet of President Grant as attorney-general; and in 1871 became a member of the joint high commission for making a treaty between England and the United States. He was a presidential elector in 1872; and was elected to the forty-third congress as a republican. ed to the forty-third congress as a repub- presidential elector in 1872; and was electcongressman, United States senator, was born Aug. 29, 1826, in Concord, Mass.

In 1852 he was elected a representative in the general court; and in 1857 to the state senate. In 1868 he was elected a repfrom resentative Massachusetts to the forty-first congress; and was re-elected to the three succeeding congresses. He was president of the convention in 1880; and was a member of the electoral commission in 1876. He was elected a United States senator from Massachusetts for the term of six years from March 4, 1877; and was re-elected in 1883, 1889, and 1895 for term expiring in 1901.

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