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Hon. John Hoag, one of Westchester county's prominent citizens, comes of Quaker stock and is descended in lines which have been influential in this part of New York for generations. He is the son of Israel G. and Phebe (Carpenter) Hoag and was born in the town of North Castle, August 3, 1847. John Hoag, his paternal grandfather, was born in Dutchess county. New York, in 1781, and located in Westchester county in early life. 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 John), Phebe and Anna Maria. The last mentioned married Joshua W. Bowron. John Hoag died October 12, 1850, full of years and honor.

Israel G. Hoag was the second child of John and Parthenia (Green) Hoag and was born in the town of New Castle, Westchester county, October 2, 1815. He was educated in public and private schools. In 1835 he located in Ossining and was a leading farmer of that town until his death, which occurred January 17, 1875. He took an active 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 Phebe Carpenter, who died July 15, 1851. She bore him two children, John, and Mary B., who married Forman W. Miller. Phebe (Carpenter) Hoag was thirty-three years old at the time of her death. She was a daughter of Rees Carpenter, who was a native of Westchester county, and during the greater part of his active career a merchant and farmer in the town of North Castle, of which he was supervisor for several terms and in the affairs of which he took an active and influential interest. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and in politics was originally a Whig, and later a Republican. He married Sarah Bowron and they had born to them six children, five of whom grew to manhood and womanhood: Jacob, David, Phebe, Freelove and Hannah. The other one died in infancy. Rees Carpenter died in August, 1871, at the age of eighty-three; his wife in 1867, at the age of seventy-two.

Hon. John Hoag was educated in private schools in the village of 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 took up the work of assisting to carry on his father's farming operations, on the family homestead in Ossining, about a mile from the center of Sing Sing, where he has continuously lived ever since. The farm is a fine one, embracing sixty-eight acres of valuable land, provided with first class buildings and every facility and appliance that could conduce to its successful management. 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 1883 and in 1890 was elected treasurer of Westchester county, and re-elected in 1893. the duties of which responsible office he discharged for six years with the greatest fidelity and credit.

Mr. Hoag has been active in business circles. He was one of the organizers of the Westchester Trust Company, in 1898. Its officers are John Hoag, president; C. P. Marsden, Jr., secretary; Leslie R. Dickson, treasurer; and S. T. Kellogg, accountant. He is a vice-president of the Sing Sing Savings Bank, 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.

Mr. Hoag was married on October 4, 1870, to Elizabeth Celeste Acker, daughter of Sylvester and Esther M. Acker. She died December 14, 1897. Their children are George F. and John, Jr. (twins), and Henry B.