Biographical Sketch of George T. Hoagland, St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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George T. Hoagland, retired banker, etc., is a native of Elizabethtown,
New Jersey, and was born February 7, 1814. His father, Cornelius H.
Hoagland, was an old resident of that state, and died in 1832. His
mother, formerly Catharine Brown, died in 1880. The subject of this
sketch came west in 1837. In 1838, he located in Boonville, Missouri,
and opened the first lumber yard at that point, remaining until 1852,
when he located in St. Joseph, opening a yard on the corner of Fourth
and Edmond Streets. He also opened the first regular yards in pine
and domestic lumber, at Council Bluffs and Omaha, the latter his son,
G. A., now operates. He also opened a yard at Hannibal, MO., and
afterwards became one of the organizers and is now President of the
Badger State Lumber Co., their wholesale point being Hannibal, and
their mills are located on the Chippewa River, Wisconsin. In that
state they own extensive tracts of pine lands. For a number of years
Mr. Hoagland was President of the Buchanan County Bank, and he has
been a member of the City Council, and has been closely identified
in all matters pertaining to the city's interest. Owing to failing
health, of late years, he has been obliged to retire from active
business. Religiously Mr. Hoagland's sympathies are with the Metho-
dists, and in that cause has been an active worker, and also a local
minister of that denomination. He was originally a Presbyterian,
having been united to that faith in 1832. To him much credit is due
for establishing the Presbyterian Church at Boonville, of which he
was an elder for several years. He was married in February, 1842, at
Elizabethtown, New Jersey, to Miss Nannie Gale, of Haverhill, Mass-
achusetts. She is an estimable lady. They have had three children:
George A., Theodore B., and Emeline B., wife of Benjamin R. Vineyard,
one of St. Joseph's attorneys.

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