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Mrs. Elizabeth A. Cable, a ver}' esteemable widow lady, whose maiden 

 name was Craw, and who survives him. Mr. Woodruff was a firm 

 believer in the religious doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg, and was 

 very zealous in propagating them. One among the last acts of his 

 life was the gift of a case of new church books to the Faribault Pub- 

 lic Library." 



CHARLES HOAG. 



Charles Hoag died Wednesday Feb 1, 1888, at his late residence 

 528 Aldrich avenue, Minneapolis, in his 80th year. The immediate 

 cause of his death was water on the heart, but his last illness may be 

 traced to a fall which he received while picking cherries in October. 



Charles Hoag was born at Sandwitch, N. H., June 29, 1808, and 

 was educted at Wolfboro Academy and a " Friends" school in Rhode 

 Island. At the age of 15 he commenced teaching and remained in 

 that profession until he was 42 years of age. He was principal of a 

 Philadelphia, Pa., grammar school thirteen years, and came from that 

 city to Minnesota in 1852, bringing with him a cultivated taste for 

 trees, fruits and flowers, acquired in that staid city. He took up 160 

 acres of land, a part of which now forms the site of the West Hotel 

 in the city of Minneapolis. He was a member of the first council, 

 second treasurer of the county, and superintendent of schools four 

 years. In 1874 he removed to his farm " Diamond Lake," Richland 

 township, and resided there until some three 3'ears since when he re- 

 turned to Minneapolis. Within a few weeks after his arrival in the 

 then frontier settlement he had the distinguished honor of giving the 

 name Minnneapolis, a combination of the Greek and Indian tongue, 

 (literally water city) to the little hamlet of scarce a dozen actual set- 

 tlers, which has in less than forty years grown to be one of the largest, 

 busiest and most beautiful cities in the Northwest. 



During the early years of the city he was a man of wealth and in- 

 fluence, and a recognized leader in all public improvements, but the 

 panic of 1857, as with hundreds of others, caught him with his real 

 estate heavily mortgaged, and he was only able to save enough from 

 the wreck with good management to make his old age comfortable 

 and leave his widow independent for life. Mr. Hoag was twice mar- 

 ried. His first wife died in 1871, and two years later he married 

 Susan F. Jewett, who with his daughter, Mrs. Charles Clark, and a 

 brother, Levi Hoag, nowliyingin Wright county, are his only surviv- 

 ing relatives. 



The writer first formed his acquaintance at the State Fair at Roch- 



