Hoagland, Cornelius N.
Miami Union1898
Staff 71st
OVI
Dr. Cornelius N. Hoagland, one of Brooklyn’s best known philanthropists, a
scientist of wide reputation and president of the Cleveland Baking Powder
Company, died at his home, No. 410 Clinton Ave, Brooklyn, at 8;45 o’clock Sunday
night.
Dr. Hoagland has been suffering from liver and stomach trouble for about two
years. On January 25, he left for a
trip to the Mediterranean, and when he returned to Brooklyn, on April 5, heart
trouble set in. For a week his
death has been expected, but he rallied from day to day under the treatment of
Dr. Frank E. West. Sunday night at 8 o’clock Dr. Hoagland was taling in a
cheerful way with members of his family.
Half an hour afterward he fell asleep, and fifteen minutes after he died.
Cornelius Nevins Hoagland was born in Neshanic, Somerset County, N. J. on
November 23, 1828. In 1834 his
family removed to Piqua, Miami County, Ohio, and later to West Charleston, in
that state where he attended public school till 1845.
At the age of 17 years he began the study of medicine with Dr. E. L.
Crane, a leading physician of Miami County, and later at the Starling Medical
College at Columbus, Ohio, and in 1851 1852 he attended lectures in and was
graduated in the latter year from the medical department of the Western Reserve
University at Cleveland.
On August 10, 852, he married Eliza Ellen, daughter of Judge David H.
Morris, of Miami County, Ohio. In
1854 he was elected County Auditor of Miami County and was re-elected in 1856
serving four years. On the breaking
out of the war, he was a private in the volunteer company recruited in Troy,
Ohio, known as the Lafayette Blues, and entered actual service in 1861 on the
call of President Lincoln. On the
organization and mustering in of the company he was appointed its first
lieutenant. The company was
assigned as Company H, 11th Ohio Infantry.
In October of the same year he was appointed surgeon of the 71st
Ohio, served as such to the close of the war , and was mustered out with the
regiment in January 1866. He took
part in some of the most noteworthy engagements, and was wounded in the breast
at Nashville. At the close of the war he engaged in mercantile pursuits and
removed with his family to Brooklyn in 1868.
After a successful career as a businessman he retired in 1876 with a
competency. He was a member of the Microscopical Society of London, held the
relation of life fellow to the American Geographical Society of New York, the
New York Genealogical and the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and
the Long Island Historical Society.
He was regent of the Long Island College Hospital, member of the Loyal Legion,
and trustee of the following institutions:
Syracuse University, Antioch College of Ohio, Adelphi Academy, People’s
Trust Company, and Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn.
He was also a member of several clubs and societies.
He leaves three children, Cora A., wife of George T. Tangeman; Luella J.
Hoagland and Elizabeth K., wife of Charles O. Gates.
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