Hoag, Truman H – Hockaday, John A
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 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. 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.
Hoar, Leonard
educator, college president, was born about 1629. He was president of Harvard college from 1672 till 1675, and was the first person to propose the modern system of technical education, by the addition of a garden and orchard, a workshop, and a chemical la- 1675, in Braintree, Mass. HOAR, SAMUEL, lawyer, state senator, 1675, in Braintree, Mass. congressman, was born May 18, 1788, in congressman, was born May 18, 1788, in Lincoln, Mass. He was a state senator in 1825 and 1833; and a representative in congress from 1835 to 1837. He was a member of the executive council in 1845 and 1846; and state representative in 1850.
He died Nov. 2, 1856, in Concord, Mass. man, was born July 30, 1860, in Concord, man, was born July 30, 1860, in Concord, Mass. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat from the fifth Massachusetts district. In 1893 he was appointed United States attorney for the district of Massachusetts, and resigned in 1897.
Hoard, Charles B
mechanic, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 28, 1805, in Springfield, Vt. He was post- 28, 1805, in Springfield, Vt. He was postmaster under Presidents Jackson and Van Buren; justice of the peace for several Buren; justice of the peace for several years; and a member of the New York legislature in 1838. He was elected a representative to the thirty-fifth congress; was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress.
Hobart, Aaron
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born June 26, 1787, in Abington, Mass. He served in the state senate; was a state counselor; was judge of probate; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1821 to 1827. He died Sept. 19, 1858, in East Bridgewater, Mass.
Hobart, Alvah Sabin
clergyman, author, was born March 7, 1847, in Canada. During 1879-88 he filled a pastorate in the baptist church of Cincinnati, Ohio; and since 1888 at Yonkers, N. Y.
He is the author of Corner Stones of the Baptist Church; Those Old Fashioned Christians; and Gifts of Fruits and Fullness.
Hobart, Garret A
lawyer, United States senator, vice-president of the United States, was born June 3, 1844, in Monmouth county, N. J. He was city counsel of Paterson, N. J., in 1871; and was elected counsel for the board of chosen free-holders chosen free-holders the legislature 1873, and was reelected to the assembly in 1874, and was made speaker in 1876. He was electin ed to the senate in 1879, and in 1881 was elected president of that body, and reelected in 1882. He was nominated for vice-president by the republican national convention, and was duly elected and took the oath of office on March 4, 1897.
Hobart, John Henry
bishop, author, was born Sept. 14, 1775, in Philadelphia. He was the third protestant episcopal bishop of New York, and a leader of church thought in his day. He was the author of Companion for the Altar; State of Departed Spirits; Festivals and Fasts; and Apology for Apostolic Order. He died Sept. 12, 1830, in Auburn, N. Y.
Hobart, John Henry
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 1, 1817, in New York city. He is an episcopal clergyman of author, was born Oct. 1, 1817, in New York struction and Encouragement for Lent; Church Reform in Mexico; and Mediæval Papal and Ritual Principles Stated and United States senator, was born in 1738, Fishkill, N. Y.
Hobart, John Sloss
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born in 1738, in Fairfield, Conn. He was judge of the district court of New York, and held several important positions in that state during the revolutionary war, after which he was appointed one of the three judges of the supreme court. He was a member of the United States senate from February to April, 1798, to fill a vacancy; and was then appointed judge of the United States district court of New York. He died Feb. 4, 1805.
Hobbie, Selah R
lawyer, public official, congressman, was born March 10, 1797, in Newburg, N. Y. He was soon appointed district attorney and brigade major and inspector; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1827 to 1829. On the accession of General Jackson to the presidency he was apassistant postmaster-general, pointed He which position he held until 1850. died March 23, 1854, in Washington, D. C.
Hobbs, George Thompson
artist, was born Feb. 18, 1846, in Philadelphia, Pa. For twenty-five years he worked as an architect. He studied art in Paris, and has become prominent as a landscape and portrait painter.
Hobbs, Lewis Lyndon
educator, college president, was born 1849, in Guilford, N. C. For many years he was engaged in educational work; and was elected the first president of Guilford college in 1888.
Hobbs, Mrs. Mary Erwin
poet, was born June 21, 1841, in Bethany, N. Y.
She was a writer of Portsmouth, N. H.; and the author of a volume of poems.
Hobby, William
clergyman, author, was born in 1707, in Massachusetts. He was a congregational clergyman of Reading, Mass., and the author of Vindication of Whitefield; and Self-Examination. He died in 1765. lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 7, HOBLITZELL, FETTER S., soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 7, 1.838, in Cumberland, Md. He served in the confederate army during the war of the rebellion. He was elected a member of the state house of representatives in 1870, again in 1876, and was re-elected in 1878, serving the last term as speaker.
He was elected a representative from Maryland to the forty-seventh and forty- Maryland to the forty-seventh and fortyeighth congresses as a democrat.
Hockaday, John A
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Jan. 6, 1837, in Callaway county, Mo. He received his educa- tion at the Westminster college of Fultion at the Westminster college of Fulton, Mo.; of which city ne is a prominent lawyer. He has been city and county atlawyer. He has been city and county attorney; was delegate to the national peace convention at Philadelphia in 1866; and elected to the state senate of Missouri in 1867. In 1872 he was a presidential elector on the Greeley ticket; and in 1888 on the Cleveland ticket. For two years he was attorney-general of Missouri; for twelve years a member of the board of managers of the state lunatic asylum; for six years of the school for the deaf and dumb; and curator of the Missouri university for one year. During 1879-80 he was again a member of the state senate; and revised the laws of Missouri. In 1887 he was a delegate to the constitutional centennial at Philadelphia; and in 1888 became permanent president of the democratic state convention. Since 1890 he has been judge of the ninth judicial circuit of Missouri. N. H. In 1832 he was a delegate to the Baltimore presidenator, was born in October, 1800, in Weare, N. H. In 1832 he was a delegate to the Baltimore presidential convention; was a member of the executive council in In 1846 he was electwas appointed land agent for the state.
In 1846 he was elected to the state senchosen president of ona term chosen president of that body. He resigned this position was to become nominee for governor of the state of Maine. In 1853 he moved to public schools. president of the board of directors of the that city in 1859; and for some years was president of the board of directors of the public schools.