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

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. 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 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1841.Little, Elder James A. ''

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''. Vol. XXXIV, 1872, p. 174.

Church service

In 1843, he moved his family to

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, where

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ordained him an elder.

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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

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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

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president.

Family and personal life

Hoagland began practicing plural marriage in 1847 when he married Agnes Taylor, the younger sister of later church president John Taylor. They divorced in 1861. Hoagland was the grandfather of Abraham H. Cannon and the father-in-law of both William Whitaker Taylor and

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. 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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