Lucian Q. Hoggatt (1815-1896)

HOGGATT

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 4/20/2019 at 14:00:12

Lucian Q. Hoggatt, an old settler of Story county, died at Ames, on the 11th of March, at eighty years of age. He was a native of Indiana, was a farmer and flat-boatman in early life. He had but a limited education, never attending school after he was thirteen years old. He was a lieutenant in the Mexican war and took part in the battle of Buena Vista. He served one term in the Indiana Legislature. In 1860 he came to Iowa and bought and settled on a tract of wild prairie near where Ames was afterwards built. He served four years as sheriff of Story county, and one term in the Iowa Legislature, as a member of the House in 1874. In 1878 he was the greenback candidate for Congress against Gov. C. C. Carpenter, who defeated him by 4,151 majority.

Citation: "Lucian Q. Hoggatt."The Annals of Iowa 2 (1896), 408-408.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.170a77/0003-4827.2110

[Poster note: grave marker in Ames Cemetery has dates March 21, 1815 - March 11, 1896.]