Abraham Lucas Hoagland (March 24, 1797 – February 14, 1872) was an early Mormon leader, pioneer, and one of the founders of

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, and

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, USA.

Early life

Hoagland was born on March 24, 1797, in Hillsborough Township, New Jersey. He apprenticed as a

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and moved to

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, where he became a prosperous blacksmith and farmer and helped settle present-day Royal Oak. While in Michigan, he joined the

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in 1841.Little, Elder James A. '' The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star''. Vol. XXXIV, 1872, p. 174.

Church service

In 1843, he moved his family to Nauvoo, Illinois, where

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ordained him an

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. Orson Pratt and

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ordained him a

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after the saints were driven from Nauvoo. In 1853 and 1857, Hoagland was elected an

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of Salt Lake City. When Brigham Young sent

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to open a mission in Australia in 1851, Hoagland took his place as bishop of the 14th ward in Salt Lake City, where he chose

's first wife, Phoebe, as the ward's first Relief Society president.

Family and personal life

Hoagland began practicing plural marriage in 1847 when he married

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, the younger sister of later church president

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. They divorced in 1861. Hoagland was the grandfather of

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and the father-in-law of both William Whitaker Taylor and George Q. Cannon. He was a member of Wilford Woodruff's

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.Hughes, Richard Thomas. ''The Primitive Church in the Modern World''. University of Illinois Press, 1995, p. 192. . He died of

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on February 14, 1872, in Salt Lake City.

References

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