CAPT. JOHN HOAGLAND DEAD.
Trailed Booth, Assassin of Lincoln, and Captured Several Accomplices.
Capt. John Hoagland, who commanded Company K., Thirteenth Regiment, New York State Volunteers, and was the first officer to go with a detachment in pursuit of John Wilkes Booth. the assassin of President Lincoln, died Saturday at the home of his son, Elmo C. Hoagland, 467 Tenth Street, Brooklyn. He was born seventy-nine years ago in Flagtown, N.J. Captain Hoagland, who received his various commissions from the War Governor of New York, Horatio Seymour, was mustered out of the service Dec. 1, 1864, with the rank of Brevet Major.
At the time of Lincoln's assassination the Thirteenth Regiment was encamped on Capitol Hill as part of the guard of Washington. On the night of the murder of Lincoln, Capt. Hoagland trailed Booth through St. Mary's County, Maryland, and so close did he follow him that Dr. Mudd was interrupted in setting Booth's leg. Capt. Hoagland captured one of the principal conspirators and several accomplices.
Capt. Hoagland was for many years in the importing business in this city [New York], from which he retired ten years ago, when his wife, Louise Hoagland, died, and went to live on his farm at South Branch, N.J. He left two sons, Ira Gould and Elmo C., and a daughter, Louise Dalley of South Branch, N.J.
[The New York Times 3 September 1912]
Nice post. What ever became of the old Hoagland Family Cemetery on the farm in Flagtown? I heard it was "plowed over" within the past few years, and that the remains were not reinterred elsewhere?
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