Ari Arthur Hoogenboom (, ''HOH-gen-boom;'' November 28, 1927 – October 25, 2014'')'' was

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of history at

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at the

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. He was a scholar of the Gilded Age, particularly regarding the life and

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of Rutherford B. Hayes.

Life and career

Hoogenboom grew up in the

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borough of

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, where he graduated from John Adams High School. He later earned a bachelor's degree from Atlantic Union College. While at Atlantic, he met and married his wife, Olive, with whom he would later collaborate on several books. He attended graduate school at

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, where he earned his M. A. and Ph. D., and was a student of David Herbert Donald. He taught history from 1956 to 1958 at the

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, and from 1958 to 1968 at

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. He was awarded a

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in 1965. Finally, from 1968 to 1998, he taught at Brooklyn College. After his retirement from Brooklyn College, Hoogenboom authored ''Rutherford B. Hayes: One of the Good Colonels'', and ''Gustavus Vasa Fox of the Union Navy: A Biography'', about Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Fox. He worked with his wife, Olive, on one of her books, ''Washington Women: The Woodbury Sisters''.

Personal life & death

With his wife, Hoogenboom fathered three children: Lynn, Ari, and Jan. Hoogenboom died in 2014, aged 86, from complications of mesothelioma.

Bibliography

References

External links

''Booknotes'' interview with Hoogenboom on ''Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior & President'', July 2, 1995''Life Portrait of Rutherford B. Hayes''
from

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's '' American Presidents: Life Portraits'' series, which heavily featured Hoogenboom 1927 births 2014 deaths People from Richmond Hill, Queens Brooklyn College faculty University of Texas at El Paso faculty Pennsylvania State University faculty Columbia University alumni Rutherford B. Hayes American Unitarians Deaths from mesothelioma in the United States Deaths from cancer in New York (state) John Adams High School (Queens) alumni Historians from New York (state) {{US-historian-stub