J.
W. Hoagland
J. W. Hoagland, M. D., is a son of E. M. and Cynthia
(Smith) Hoagland. The father was born in Ohio and the, mother in Westmoreland
County, Va., being of the same family as the famous John Smith, of Virginia.
When a girl she moved to Ohio, where she and Mr. Hoagland were married. After
moving to Indiana the mother died, and the father afterward returned to Ohio and
married Mrs. Mariah State. He was a farmer by occupation, and became the father
of nine children by his first marriage. Our subject was born in Richland County,
Ohio, July 16, 1845, and received a good common school education. At the age
of fourteen, he began the carpenter’s trade. He taught school for some time,
by which calling he made enough to take him to college and to Worcester
University. During the last year of the war, he served in the Federal Army,
after which he took a medical course at the Columbus Medical College, from which
he graduated in 1876, and has practiced continuously ever since. In 1885 he came
to Chattanooga. Previous to this, in 1883, he married Amelia Wiggins, a native
of Noble County, Ind., and a daughter of Rev. Charles F. Wiggins.
Goodspeed's
"History of East Tennessee" 1887