Background
Hogeboom was the son of John C. and Margaret (Styck) Hogeboom, of Ghent, Columbia Company, North, Y., and was bom at Claverack in that county, February 25th, 1809.
Hogeboom was the son of John C. and Margaret (Styck) Hogeboom, of Ghent, Columbia Company, North, Y., and was bom at Claverack in that county, February 25th, 1809.
He graduated from Yale College in 1827.
He was afterwards in the office of Campbell Bushnell, of Hudson, New York, and was admitted to the bar in the summer of 1830. From that date he practiced his profession in Hudson until elected a Judge of the Supreme Court of the State in 1857, which office he held at the time of his death. In 1836 he was appointed by Government.
Enos T. Throop Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for his native county, and served for two or three years, when he resigned.
He received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Rutgers College in 1870. Judge Hogeboom married, in November, 1832, Mission Jane Eliza, daughter of Colonel
James Rivington, of Poughkeepsie, New York She died March 25th, 1858. He died September 12th, 1872, at his residence in Hudson.
He had been failing in health for some months, from over-work.
Historian Edward J. Renehan, Junior. has referred to Hogeboom as a "Tammany judge"
This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.
Prior to being elected to the bench, Hogeboom served as a member of the New York State Assembly, representing Columbia County. In 1839, he was a prominent member of the General Assembly of the State.