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Hon. James Hoag, one of Westchester county's prominent citizens,, comes of Quaker stock, which has been influential in this part of New York for generations. He is a son of Israel and Phoebe (Carpenter) Hoag, and was born in the town of Westchester, January 3, 1847. John Hoag, his paternal grandfather, was born in Dutchess county. New York, in 1781, and was an extensive farmer, with quarry interests centering in New York city. He disposed of these enterprises in 1835 and engaged in the grocery trade near Sing Sing, but soon returned to his farm. He was a Friend and attended the old Friends' meeting at Chappaqua. Politically he was a Whig of the most pronounced belief, a Harrison man and everything the term implies. He married Parthenia Green, daughter of Oliver Green, a Westchester county farmer well known in his time, and had three children: Israel G., father of James; Phoebe and Ann Maria. The last mentioned married John N. Bowen. John Hoag died October 12, 1850, full of years and honor.

Israel G. Hoag, the second child of John and Parthenia (Green) Hoag, -was born in the town of Westchester, October 2, 1815, was educated in public and private schools, and in 1835 located in Ossining, where he was a leading farmer until his death, which occurred January 17, 1875. He took a leading part in town affairs, and was assessor of the town of Ossining for twelve years. Politically he was in early life a Whig; later he was a Democrat. He was a Friend, and his whole life was marked by the simple honesty of his faith. He married Miss Phoebe Carpenter, who died July 15, 1851. She bore him two children, — James and Mary B. The latter married Foreman W. Miller, long prominent in New York and Brooklyn, and -died in November, 1878. Phoebe (Carpenter) Hoag was thirty-three years old at the time of her death. She was a daughter of Rees Carpenter, of French descent, who was a native of Westchester county, however; a carpenter by trade as well as by name early in life, but during the greater part of his active career a merchant and farmer in the town of Ossining, of which he was supervisor and in the affairs of which he took an active and influential interest. He was a member of the Society of Friends, a Whig and later a Republican. He married Sarah Brown, and they had born to them six children, five of whom grew to manhood and womanhood: Jacob, David, Phoebe, Freelon and Hannah. The other one died in infancy. Rees Carpenter died in August, 1871, at the age of eighty-three; bis wife in 1867, at the age of seventy-two.

Hon. James Hoag was educated in private schools in the town of Ossining, also in Sing Sing and at the Mount Pleasant Military Academy at Sing Sing, an old and thorough institution founded about 1818. He left school in his seventeenth year and began to assist in his father's farming operations on the family homestead in Ossining, about a mile from the center of Sing Sing, where he has lived continuously ever since. The farm is a fine one, embracing sixty acres of valuable land, provided with first-class buildings and every facility and appliance that could conduce to its successful management. Mr. Hoag has some of the best livestock and horses in the county. He early became practically interested in the affairs of the town and took an active interest in local and national politics, considering all public questions from the point of view of a patriotic and conservative Democrat. His influence was fully recognized by his townsmen and he was six times elected supervisor of Ossining and was chosen to fill other important home offices. He represented his district in the assembly in 1882 and 1883, and in 1890 was elected treasurer of Westchester county, the duties of which responsible office he discharged for two years, with the greatest fidelity and credit.

Mr. Hoag has been active in business circles. He was one of the organizers of the Westchester Furniture Company, in 1898. Its officers are James .Hoag, president; C. P. Morden, Jr., secretary; Leslie R. Dickinson, treasurer; and S. T. Kellogg, accountant. He is a trustee of the Sing Sing Savings Bank, director and vice-president of the White Plains Bank and director of the First National Bank of Sing Sing, and has from time to time been prominently identified with other scarcely less important interests.