Enos Daugherty Hoge (July 23, 1831 – July 27, 1912)"Jurist in Pioneer Days Passes Away", ''The Salt Lake Herald-Republican'' (July 28, 1912), p. 7. was a justice of the

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of the

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from 1868 to 1869. Born near Morgan, Virginia (later West Virginia), Hoge moved to Illinois at an early age and

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under a federal judge there. During the

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, Hoge served as first lieutenant and captain of Company H,

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, from September 11, 1862, to May 8, 1863, when he was honorably discharged. During this service, he participated in the

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in December, 1862, where heavy cannon fire left him deaf in his right ear.Enos D. Hoge
, 58th Congress, 2nd Sess., Report No. 665 (February 1, 1904), in ''United States Congressional Serial Set, Volume 4578''. Hoge settled in Salt Lake Valley in July 1865 and opened a law office. He served two terms as city attorney of

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under mayor R. N. Baskin. In 1868, President

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appointed Hoge to serve on the Utah Territorial Supreme Court, where Hoge sat for one year. Hoge then returned to private practice in Salt Lake City. In 1875, Hoge was a defense attorney in the first trial of

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, one of the accused participants in the

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. Hoge was one of five "liberal" members elected to serve in the Utah Territorial legislature convened in 1888.Orson Ferguson Whitney, ''Popular History of Utah'' (1916), p. 457-58. In that capacity, Hoge introduced a "Marriage Bill" to prohibit

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and restrict who could perform marriages. In February 1890, his military pension was set at $10 per month, due to the board of surgeons finding that he remained totally deaf in the right ear, and slightly deaf in the left ear. By 1904, it was reported that his income from the practice of law "had ceased almost entirely and to the extent that it fails to furnish him the common necessaries of life", that his law library and office furniture had been destroyed in a fire and his only property consisted of $150 to $200 worth of household goods, and that he had no other income. In light of these circumstances, his military pension was increased to $30 per month. His funeral was held by the

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, of which he had been a grand master, and was reported as having been well-attended."E.D. Hoge Funeral Largely Attended", ''The Salt Lake Tribune'' (July 30, 1912), p. 4.

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