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of trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden, being one of the original trustees named in Mr. Shaw's will. Ever since the board was organized, in September, 1889, he has been, and still is, its vice president and chairman of the garden committee.

He was elected president of the St. Louis Bar Association in 1880, and in December of that year took part in organizing the Missouri State Bar Association, of which he was elected president in 1882. He was also one of the fifteen founders of the American Bar Association, organized at Saratoga Springs, New York, in August, 1878, and for many years was one of its most active and prominent members.

In February, 1890, at the centennial of the organization of the Supreme Court of the United States, celebrated with impressive ceremonies in the city of New York, where that court first assembled, he was one of four speakers selected to represent different sections of the Union.

Mr. Hitchcock has been an earnest advocate of civil service reform. In May, 1881, he organized the Missouri Civil Service Reform Association, and served for several years as its president. In August, 1881, he aided in establishing the National Civil Service Reform League, of which he is a vice president and member of the general committee.

Hoagland, George Tunis, for many years one of the leading business men of St. Joseph, was born February 7, 1814, at Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth), New Jersey, son of Cornelius and Catherine (Brown) Hoagland. He received but a meager education in the common schools of his native town, laying aside his books when very young to learn the trade of a carpenter. He followed this occupation in and about that place, and afterward in New York City, until 1838, when he removed to Boonville, Missouri, and engaged in selling lumber and contracting for the erection of buildings, public and private. He continued in this until 1852, when he removed to St. Joseph, Missouri, which he has made his home from that day to this. He established the first lumber yard in St. Joseph in 1852, and in 1861 opened up a similar business at Omaha, Nebraska, which is now being carried on by his eldest son, George A. Hoagland, who is owner and

manager. In 1862 he opened a lumber yard at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and some years later a wholesale lumber yard at Hannibal, Missouri. Subsequently he became interested in the manufacture and sale of lumber at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. He is also a stockholder in the Badger Lumber Company, which has yards at various points in Wisconsin, Kansas and Nebraska, the headquarters of the business being in Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. Hoagland, in politics, holds to a strong independence, regarding it to be the duty of the citizen to act as his conscience may dictate, disregarding all blind allegiance to a party for the party's sake, or because he may have acted with it at one time or other. In his early manhood he was a Whig. As old issues disappeared and new issues arose, he became a Democrat. At present he acts with the Prohibitionists. In a personal way he cares nothing for practical politics, and has never held any public office except that of councilman in the city which is his home, considering that such service is a duty that a good citizen owes to his neighbors and to the community. In such high regard is he held that he has frequently been called upon to fill that position. Fully fifty years ago Mr. Hoagland became a member of the Presbyterian Church, but subsequently united with the Methodist Church, South. He has always lived a consistent Christian life, and his religion has ever been much more than mere profession. His benefactions have been frequent and generous. Friends, who have reason to know whereof they speak, have stated that his contributions for religious, philanthropic and benevolent purposes during the past fifteen years have been in excess of $100,000. Mr. Hoagland was married to Miss Nancy A. Gale, at Elizabeth, New Jersey, February 2, 1842. Three children have been born to them, all of whom are living, namely: George A. Hoagland, Theodore B. Hoagland and Emaline B. Hoagland, now Mrs. B. R. Vineyard, whose husband is a prominent attorney of St. Joseph, Missouri. George T. Hoagland retired from active business about 1880, and lives in pleasant companionship with his family and grandchildren.

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