Background
Hoagland was born on March 24, 1797, in Hillsborough Township, New Jersey.
Hoagland was born on March 24, 1797, in Hillsborough Township, New Jersey.
He apprenticed as a blacksmith and moved to Michigan, where he became a prosperous blacksmith and farmer and helped settle present-day Royal Oak.
In 1843, he moved his family to Nauvoo, Illinois, where Joseph Smith ordained him an elder. Orson Pratt and Wilford Woodruff ordained him a bishop in Winter Quarters, Nebraska after the saints were driven from Nauvoo. In 1853 and 1857, Hoagland was elected an alderman of Salt Lake City.
When Brigham Young sent John Murdock 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 Wilford Woodruff"s first wife, Phoebe, as the ward"s first Relief Society president
He was a member of Wilford Woodruff"s prayer circle.