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Isaac Hoagland, son of Christopher and Sarah Hoagland, was the grandfather of Dr. Cornelius Nevius Hoagland. He was born in Somerset County, N. J., in 1771. He entered Rutgers College, but he left that institution and went to Princeton, where he was graduated. He then settled in Sussex County, and having studied medicine, received an appointment as surgeon's mate in the United States Army. Ordered to service in the garrison in East Florida, he died there two years after. His wife, whom he married while a student in Rutgers College in 1792, was Margaretta Machett. Andrew Hoagland, the father of Dr. Hoagland, was born in New Jersey in 1795 and died in 1872. He went West in 1834 and settled in Miami County, O. In the latter years of his life he lived in Troy, the county seat of Miami County, where he died in 1872. In 1828, he married Jane Hoogland, daughter of Cornelius and Katharine Hoogland. She was descended in the sixth generation from Dirck Jansen Hoogland, who came from Holland in 1657. Her family was not related to that of her husband, although it bore the same name.
Dr. Cornelius Nevius Hoagland was born in Somerset County, N. J., in the family home- stead, November 23d, 1828. Taken to Ohio with his parents, he attended school in West Charles- ton until 1845, and graduated from the medical department of the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, in 1852. Engaging in the practice of medicine in Miami County, he also became inter- ested in politics, and was elected auditor of the county in 1854 and in 1856. When the Civil War began, he enlisted in the Eleventh Ohio Infantry, becoming First Lieutenant in that regiment. In October, 1861, he was appointed surgeon of the Seventy-First Ohio, and served until the close of the war, principally in the campaigns in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Texas, being actively engaged in many great battles in connection with the duties of his position, serving on brigade and division staffs, and frequently having charge of important field hospitals.
After the war, he returned to Ohio to the practice of his profession, but in 1868 removed to New York and engaged in mercantile pursuits, which have since occupied his attention. He is a director of the People's Trust Company and the Dime Savings Bank, and connected with other corporations. In 1887, he founded and amply endowed the Hoagland Laboratory, which is devoted to original medical research. The wife of Dr. Hoagland was Eliza E. Morris, daughter of Judge David H. Morris, of Ohio. His children are: Cora, wife of George P. Tangeman; Elizabeth, wife of Charles O. Gates, and Ella Hoagland. The family residence is in Brooklyn. Dr. Hoagland is a member of the Hamilton, Union League and Brooklyn clubs of Brooklyn, the Downtown Club, Ohio Society, and Military Order of the Loyal Legion. He is a fellow of the Royal Microscop- ical Society of London, and of the American Geographical Society of New York, and a member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and the Long Island Historical Society.
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ROBERT HOE
A TWO-FOLD interest attaches to the name which heads this article. It recalls a family which has supported the fame of this country throughout the world for invention and workmanship in a most important branch of mechanics. Furthermore, the gentleman of whom we speak is personally recognized as one of the foremost American patrons of art and letters, and as having made his taste and knowledge of inestimable value to this city.
Robert Hoe, first of the name, was born in Leicestershire, England, in 1784. He was an expert mechanician, and, coming to New York, in 1803, engaged in the business of making printing presses ; his establishment, which, from that day to the present, has been conducted under the style of R. Hoe & Co., being in Maiden Lane and later in Gold Street. Its founder took out some of the first patents for improvements in printing presses, and at his works steam was first employed as a motive power in New York. He made the earliest presses of the cylinder type constructed in the United States, which, though based upon European models, represented a great improvement over the originals. Retiring from business, in 1832, he died at his country seat, in Westchester, in the following year, leaving his sons, Richard M. and Robert Hoe, as his successors.
Robert Hoe, second of the name, was a noted patron of the fine arts, was distinguished by his discriminating liberality to young artists, and was one of the founders of the National Academy of Design. He died in 1884, he and his brother being succeeded in business by his son, the present Mr. Robert Hoe, who was born in this city, in 1839.
Mr. Hoe is the head of the firm of R. Hoe & Co., which, as it exists to-day, is largely his creation, and which he has brought to the height of reputation it now enjoys. The works in Grand Street embrace now the largest manufacturing plant of its kind in or around New York. Employing at least one thousand six hundred skilled mechanics, the works support some ten thousand of the city's population. It is the only large manufacturing establish- ment conducted by individual owners, that remains in the city. Other concerns of similar magnitude have either been absorbed in some of the numerous combinations of industrial capital, or have been removed from New York on account of the taxation and the restrictive laws that prevail here. Many inducements have been offered to Mr. Hoe to remove his plant elsewhere. He has, however, uniformly rejected all such offers, and in a true spirit of local pride, keeps his establishment in the city of his own birth, and where it also grew up. Some seven years ago, Mr. Hoe inaugurated a branch of R. Hoe & Co., in London, which is unique of its kind in England, and supplies the principal printing offices of that country, and its Colonies.
Inheriting in a full degree the mechanical and business talents of his family, Mr. Hoe has thus continued and improved upon its record for success. He is, however, a student and connoisseur, quite as much as a man of affairs, and in the former connection has a more than national reputation. He was one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and an earnest laborer for its success. One of New York's valued literary institutions, the Grolier Club, sprang from his suggestion, and, as its president, he has contributed effectively to incite interest in the arts pertaining to the production of books, which are the objects of its attention. Mr. Hoe is an indefatigable collector of books and works of art, and his magnificent private library is universally admitted to be the most remarkable and valuable in America, while he has written, at times, upon the subjects that engross his attention.
Mr. Hoe married Olivia P. James, daughter of Daniel James, of New York and Liverpool, England. Their children are: Carolyn, now Mrs. Leon Marie; Olivia, now Mrs. Henry Lewis Slade; Laura, the wife of Ernest Trow Carter; Ellen James, Ruth L., Robert, Jr., and A. I. Hoe.
The family residence is 11 East Thirty-sixth Street, and Mr. Hoe's country seat is at Lake Waccabuc, N. Y. His clubs, in addition to the Grolier, are the Century, Union League, Players, Engineers' and Fencers'.
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EUGENE AUGUSTUS HOFFMAN, D.D.
H IMSELF a toremost representative of the culture, refinement and Christian activity of the metropolis in the present generation, the Very Reverend Eugene Augustus Hoff- man, D.D., LL. D., D.C. L., comes of old Knickerbocker stock. The family, for two centuries and a half, has been prominent in New York, Kingston and Red Hook, and much of the land originally patented by its founders still remains in the possession of their descendants in Ulster and Dutchess counties. Those of this generation can trace their lineage with the Ver Plancks, Beekmans, Bensons and other leading families of New York State. The American founder of the family was Martinus Hoffman, who was born in Sweden about 1640, and was a ritmaster in the army of Augustus Adolphus, of Sweden. He came to this country about 1660, and settled in New Amsterdam. Then he removed to Albany and became a large land owner, but finally settled in Ulster County, where he founded the village that was named after him, Hoffmantown.
Nicholas Hoffman, son of Martinus Hoffman, lived in Kingston and married Jannitie Crispell, daughter of Antoine Crispell, a Huguenot and one of the patentees of New Paltz. Their son, Martinus Hoffman, 1706-1772, settled in Red Hook and was a man of much wealth and local importance, being a justice of the peace and Colonel of a militia regiment; his wife was Trintie Benson, daughter of Robert and Cornelia (Roose) Benson. The son of Martinus and Trintie Hoffman was Harmanus Hoffman, who married Catherine Ver Planck, daughter of Samuel and Effie (Beekman) Ver Planck, and became the father of Samuel Ver Planck Hoffman, the grandfather of the Reverend Eugene A. Hoffman.
Samuel Ver Planck Hoffman, 1802-1880, was a lawyer early in life, but in 1828 established a dry goods house, in which he remained until his retirement, in 1842. He was a director in several insurance companies and other corporations, a member of the Union League Club, a trustee of the General Theological Seminary, a vestryman of Trinity Church, and a generous supporter of philanthropic enterprises. By his marriage with Glorvina Rossell Storm, daughter of Garrit Storm, the New York wholesale merchant, he had two sons, the Reverend Dr. Eugene A. Hoffman and the Reverend Dr. Charles F. Hoffman.
Dean Eugene A. Hoffman was born in New York, March 21st, 1829, and educated in the Columbia Grammar [School and Rutgers College, from which he was graduated when only eighteen years of age. His studies were further continued in Harvard, and from that University he has the degrees of B. A. and M. A. Graduated from the General Theological Seminary in 1851, he was ordained a deacon by Bishop Doane, of New Jersey, the same year and entered at once upon parochial work in Christ Church, Elizabeth, N. J. He continued actively in the ministry for twenty-eight years, holding rectorships in Burlington, N. J., Brooklyn and Philadelphia.
In 1879, he was elected to the office of dean of the General Theological Seminary, and his administration has covered the period of the greatest prosperity that that famous institution has ever enjoyed. His management of the seminary has revealed him as a man of executive ability, deep religious fervor and broad sympathies. He has improved and added to the buildings of the seminary, which is now one of the chief educational and architectural ornaments of the city. Over a million dollars have been added to the funds of the institution, chiefly by the munificence of Dean Hoffman and members of his family. He married, in 1852, Mary C. Elmendorf, daughter of Peter Z. Elmendorf, of New Brunswick, N. J. His residence is in Chelsea Square and he belongs to the Century, City, Riding, South Side Sportsmen's, St. Nicholas and Jekyl Island clubs, and the St. Nicholas Society. His son, Samuel Ver Planck Hoffman, was graduated from Columbia College and married Louisa M. Smith. His only brother, the Reverend Charles F. Hoffman, married Eleanor F. Vail. Their son, Charles Frederick Hoffman, Jr., was graduated from Columbia College in 1878, and their daughter, Eleanor L. Hoffman, married William MacNeill Rodewald. Dean Hoffman is interested in many humanitarian institutions, is a member of many church boards and is connected with numerous literary and scientific societies.
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ROBERT JOSEPH HOGUET
T HE ancestors of Mr. Robert Joseph Hoguet belonged in France originally. The name was attached to one of the most ancient Catholic families in that country, where for many gen- erations it was substantial and influential. The great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Joseph Hoguet, was the first of the name to leave his native land. In the latter part of the eighteenth century, he went to Ireland, and there established himself in business. The son of this French exile was Robert Joseph Hoguet, who was a leading merchant of Dublin. He married Eleanor Pontet, a compatriot, also descended from an eminent French Catholic family of the old régime and herself a native of France.
Henry Louis Hoguet, the sixth child of Robert Joseph Hoguet and his wife, Eleanor, was brought up under the instruction of private tutors until he was thirteen years of age, having been born in 1816. He was then sent to France to complete his education, and in 1829, was entered as a pupil in the Massin Institute, an appendage to the ancient Charlemagne College in Paris. There he prosecuted his studies for the ensuing four years, completing his course in the autumn of 1833. In April of the year following his graduation from Charlemagne College, although he had not yet completed his eighteenth year, he became possessed of an ambition to seek his fortunes in the New World. Accordingly he sailed for New York, whither several of his brothers had already pre- ceded him. The firm of Hoguet & Son had been established several years previous to this time and was already doing a flourishing business in Maiden Lane. The house had been founded by his father, who had sent over his second son, Anthony Hoguet, to manage the business. Henry L. Hoguet, upon arriving in New York, took a place in his father's firm, where he remained for several years and then, in 1838, went into the employ of William Kobbe.
In 1846, Mr. Hoguet determined to engage in business for himself and assisted in founding the firm of Chesterman & Hoguet, of which he was the junior partner. After three years, this partnership was dissolved, and the firm of Wilmerding, Hoguet & Humbert succeeded to the busi- ness. Subsequently, the firm name became Wilmerding, Hoguet & Co. The establishment was moved from William Street, where it had existed from its earliest days, to a location in Broadway, and became one of the leading business houses of the metropolis. Mr. Hoguet was also for many years president of the Emigrants' Savings Bank.
A devoted member of the Roman Catholic Church, Mr. Hoguet was long prominent in the lay councils of that denomination. For many years he was a trustee of the old St. Patrick's Cathe- dral in Mott Street, when that church was the leading ecclesiastical institution of the Roman Catholics in New York. He was also one of the managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, a trustee of the St. Vincent de Paul's Church, treasurer of St. Vincent de Paul's Orphan Asylum, and one of the founders of the New York Catholic Protectory, being for many years president of the latter institution. His valuable and unselfish services in the cause of religion and charity com- manded the attention and the approval of the church authorities, and, in 1880, Pope Leo XIII. created him a Chevalier of the Order of St. Gregory, and conferred upon him the cross and diploma of that order, an exceptional honor to be bestowed upon a lay member of the church. Mr. Hoguet was twice married. His first wife, whom he married ia 1838, was Miss Atkinson, granddaughter of Captain John O'Connor. She died in 1869. His second wife, whom he married in 1872, was a French lady, a native of Paris; she survived her busband.
Mr. Robert Joseph Hoguet, the only son of Henry L. Hoguet and his first wife, was born in August, 1839, and succeeded his father in the business of Wilmerding, Hoguet & Co., with which he has been connected from his early manhood. He married Marie Noël, a lady of French descent, and lives in the old family residence, at the corner of the Boulevard and West One Hundred and Forty-first Street, overlooking the Hudson River. He belongs to the Catholic and Merchants' clubs, and has followed in the footsteps of his father as a generous supporter of religious and benevolent institutions.
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HENRY HUTCHINSON HOLLISTER
L IEUTENANT JOHN HOLLISTER, who was born in England in 1612 and emigrated to this country in 1642, was one of the influential men in the early days of the Connecticut Colony. He married Joanna Treat, daughter of the Honorable Richard Treat, Sr., and became the ancestor of the Hollister family, representatives of which have been prominent in Connecticut and New York. His son, John Hollister, who was born in Wethersfield, Conn., about 1644, was the ancestor of the branch now under consideration. He was one of the principal men of Glastonbury, to which place he moved from Wethersfield, and where he died in 1711. His wife, Sarah Goodrich, came from another leading Colonial family. She was a daughter of William Goodrich and Sarah Marvin, her maternal grandfather being Matthew Marvin, who came from London in 1635, and was an original proprietor of Hartford and one of the grantees of Norwalk, in which he settled in 1653.
The successive representatives of the family line from John Hollister down to Mr. Henry H. Hollister, of New York, were: Thomas Hollister, 1672-1741; Gideon Hollister, 1699-1785; Nathaniel Hollister, 1731-1810; Gideon Hollister, 1776-1864, and Edwin M. Hollister, 1800-1870. Thomas Hollister resided in Glastonbury, where he was a deacon in the church. His wife was Dorothy Hills, 1677-1741, daughter of Joseph Hills, of Glastonbury, a son of William Hills, who came to America in 1632, settled in Roxbury and afterwards moved to Connecticut. His first wife was Phyllis Lyman, daughter of Richard Lyman, and his second wife was the widow Mary Steele, daughter of Andrew Warner, of Hadley. Gideon Hollister, son of Thomas Hollister, was a Lieutenant in the Militia in 1736. He married, in 1723, Rachel Talcott, 1706-1790, daughter of Nathaniel Talcott, of Glastonbury. The wife of Nathaniel Hollister in the next generation was Mehitable Mattison, 1739-1824. Gideon Hollister, the son of Nathaniel Hollister, and the grandfather of Mr. Henry H. Hollister, removed to Andover, Conn., where he was engaged in business as a paper manufacturer. His wife was Mary Olmstead, of East Hartford, who died in 1827. Their son, Edwin M. Hollister, removed early in life to Hartford, where he was engaged for many years as a dry goods merchant. Afterwards he resided in Windsor and became a prosperous paper manufacturer. His wife was Gratia Taylor Buell, who was born in 1801, her father being Major John H. Buell, who was an energetic patriot, served in the Revolutionary Army, and was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati.
Mr. Henry Hutchinson Hollister, the youngest son of Edwin M. and Gratia (Buell) Hollister, was born in Brattleboro, Vt., in 1842. His early years were spent in Vermont, but when young he removed to New York and entered upon a successful business career. For many years he has been a banker and broker, and is connected with many financial enterprises. In 1871, he married Sarah Louise Howell, daughter of William A. Howell and Lucetta B. Gould, of Newark, N. J. His second wife was Anne Willard Stephenson, daughter of J. H. Stephenson, of Boston; her grandfathers being Benjamin Stephenson, of Scituate, Mass., and Aaron Willard, of Boston. The children of Mr. Hollister by his first wife were Louise Howell, Henry Hutchinson, Jr., Louise and Buell Hollister. Henry H. Hollister, Jr., is an undergraduate at Yale University. The residence of the family is in West Forty-ninth Street. Mr. Hollister is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, New York, Riding, Whist and South Side Sportsmen's clubs, and belongs to the New England Society, the Sons of the Revolution and the Society of the Cincinnati.
The brothers and sisters of Mr. Hollister, children of Edwin M. and Gratia (Buell) Hollister, were Edward Hubbell Hollister, born 1826, who married Emily H. Phelps and died in 1868; Sarah Buell Hollister, who married the Honorable Broughton D. Harris, of Vermont; George Hollister, born in 1832, who married Phoebe Conkling; Mary Louise Hollister, born in 1834, who married Walter A. Pease; Helen Mercia Hollister, born in 1836, who married Effingham Maynard, and John Buell Hollister, born in 1838, who married Ellie Crane.
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CHARLES RUSSELL HONE
O NE of the most distinguished Mayors that New York City ever had, and one of the most courtly gentlemen of the metropolis in the last generation, was the Honorable Philip Hone. His son, Robert S. Hone, was the father of Mr. Charles Russell Hone. Robert S. Hone was prominent in business affairs, being for many years president of the Republic Fire Insurance Company, vice-president of the New York Institution for the Blind, and a director and trustee of many other charitable and philanthropic institutions of the city. The wife of Robert S. Hone was Eliza Rodman Russell, of Providence, in which city she was born in 1819. Mr. and Mrs. Hone had four children. Mary Schermerhorn Hone married Horace W. Fuller, son of Dudley B. Fuller, and had two children, Dudley and Arthur Fuller. The other children were Anna Russell Hone, Charles Russell Hone and Robert Hone.
Through his mother, Mr. Charles Russell Hone is descended from several of the most distinguished families of Rhode Island. Eliza Rodman Russell was a daughter of Charles Handy Russell by his first wife, Ann Rodman, whom he married in 1818. The father of Ann Rodman was Captain William Rodman, of Newport and Providence, who married Ann Olney, niece of Colonel Jeremiah Olney, of Revolutionary fame. Captain William Rodman was descended from Dr. Thomas Rodman, the first American ancestor of the family, who was born in 1639 and died in 1727. The line of descent was through Samuel Rodman, who was born in 1703 and died in 1749; William Rodman, who married Lydia Gardner about 1757; Captain William Rodman, second, who was born in 1758 and became the father of Ann Rodman. One of the daughters of Captain William Rodman, Elizabeth Rodman, married John Rogers, of Providence, and another daughter, Mary Rodman, married Stephen Hopkins, of Providence, son of Stephen Hopkins, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
The maternal grandfather of Mr. Charles Russell Hone was Charles Handy Russell, one of the most distinguished merchants and business men of Newport and New York in the last generation, and prominently identified with many financial institutions of New York, and with the public service and literary and social enterprises. Mr. Russell traced his descent on the maternal side back through several generations to Samuel Handy, a native of England, and an early settler of the Maryland Colony in the first part of the eighteenth century. The grandmother of Mr. Russell was Ann Brown, descended from Chad Brown, one of the first settlers of Newport, who was born in 1671, and died in 1731, and whose wife was Elizabeth Cranston, daughter of Governor John Cranston. Her father was Captain John Brown, of Newport, a grandson of Chad Brown. Members of the Brown family were especially distinguished in the early generations in Rhode Island. John Brown, the eldest son of Chad Brown, married Jane Lucas, daughter of Augustus and Bathsheba Lucas, of Newport, and descended from the Reverend Joseph Eliot, of Guilford, Conn., son of John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, whose wife was Sarah Brenton, daughter of Governor William Brenton. Ann Brown, who married Charles Handy, was the eighth daughter of this Captain John Brown. All her descendants are, therefore, descendants of Governor William Brenton, the Reverend John Eliot, Governor John Cranston and of Governor Jeremiah Clark.
On the Russell side of the house, the ancestry of Mr. Charles Russell Hone goes back to John Russell, who came to Charlestown, Mass., before 1640, and among his antecedents along this line are: the Reverend John Russell, Jr., one of the first Baptist ministers of Boston, and Major Thomas Russell, an aide-de-camp to Brigadier-General John Stark, during the War of the Revolu- tion, and afterwards at the head of the great East India importing house of Russell & Co.
Mr. Charles Russell Hone was born in New York, May 8th, 1849, was educated in New York and New Haven, and has been engaged in the banking business. His wife, whom he mar- ried in 1876, was Josephine Hoey, and they have two sons, Charles R. Hone, Jr., and Harold Hone. The residence of the family is at Westbury Station, Long Island. Mr. Hone is a member of the Union, Knickerbocker, Country and Meadow Brook Hunt clubs, and of the New England Society.
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GEORGE BEVAN HOPE, M. D.
P RIOR to the Revolution, representatives of the Hope family came from Scotland to the American Colonies. The name is one of great antiquity, as well as of historical prominence in the annals of the Scottish Kingdom, and has been represented, not only in the nobility of the country, but in the professions and in the highest ranks of Great Britain's commerce. Among the first baronetcies of Scotland was that represented in this age by Sir John D. Hope, whose hereditary title dates back to 1628. In 1703, another of the branches of the family was invested with the Earldom of Hopetown, and a century later the then bearer of the dignity received the English baronage of the same title. By their intermarriage with the highest nobility and gentry of the United Kingdom, the Hopes have become allied with many families of the first distinction, one instance of which is afforded by the well-known Beresford-Hope family, which for some generations has been prominent in the social and political life of the mother country. Closely connected were the famous Hopes of Amsterdam, Holland, merchants and bankers, who, during the last century and the earlier part of the present one, were among the most powerful financiers of the world. To this portion of the family belonged the traveler and philosopher, Thomas Hope, 1770-1831, the author of Anastasius, and other works, who was also famous for his munificence in the cause of art. The branch to which Dr. George Bevan Hope, of New York, belongs, established itself in Pennsylvania about 1760. Both his grandfather, Richard Hope, and his father, Matthew Boyd Hope, were natives of that State, the latter adopting the ministry and becoming a member of the faculty of Princeton College, in which institution he was a professor for many years, and the author of numerous educational and other works. His wife was Agnes C. Bevan, of Philadelphia, a daughter of Matthew L. Bevan, one of the most noted citizens of that city in the early part of the century.
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