Hoadley, John, LL.D.. youngest son of bishop Hoadley (q. v.). was liorn in 171 1, and educated at Cam- bridge. He edited the works of his father, and \\Tote himself a number of poems, among ivhich are Love's Be- venge, a pastoral (1737, 4to) : — .lephtha, an oratorio (1748, 8vo) -.—Force of Truth, oratorio (1764), and others. lie died in 177G.— Allibone, Diet, of A vthors,i,8b2.
Hoag, Ephraim, a IMcthodist Episcopal minister, was born in Peru, X. Y., Sept. 15, 1815. He was con- verted in 1835, and, after a course of study at Cazenovia Seminari-, entered, in 1841, the Oneida Conference (now merged in the Central New York Conference). His su- perior talents soon procured for him the favor of the people to whom lie Avas sent, and the good wishes of his brethren in the ministry'. Although comparatively a self-made man, he was looked upon as one of the first Methodist ministers in Central New York. He filled the chief appointments of this Conference, e. g. Ithaca (1852-3), Utica (18.54-5), Norwich (1S5G-7), Cazenovia (1860-1), and in 1864 was made presiding elder of Cort- land District. Here he labored with great success for four years, when he was sent to Canastota. In 1869, Vvhile at the session of the newly-formed New York Cen- tral Conference, he was suddenly struck with Farali'sis,
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and was obliged to ask for a superannuate relation. He died Oct. 3, 1809. '-As a preacher he was earnest and uncompromising, seeking to please God and save men ; as a pastor he was diligent, caring for and seeking the good of all the people under his charge. Of him it was true, tlie poor welcomed his coming, and blessed him when he went awav." — Rev. L. C. Queal, in the Xorth. Christ. A dvocate, Dec. 16, 1869. (J. H. W.)
Hoag, Wilbur, a IMethodist Episcopal minister, was born at Os^vegatchie, N. York, May 12, 1806 ; was converted in 1.S21, joined the Genesee Conference in 1826, was stationed at Buffalo in 1831, was agent for the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in 1832, and died April 12, 1839. Mr. Hoag was a man of "quick perception, ready utterance, and clear discrimination." He was an able business man, and highly esteemed as a winning and successful minister. — Min. of Conferences, ii, 677.
Hoar, Leonard, one of the early presidents of Har- vard College, was born about 1630. He graduated at Harvard in 1650, and in 1653 went to England and con- tinued his studies at Cambridge University. He en- tered the ministry at Wensted, in Sussex County, in 1656, but his nonconformity to the English Church caused his deposition in 1662. A few years afterward he decided to return to America. His first appointment was as assistant to Dr. Thacher, in Boston. In 1672 he was elected president of Harvard, but the college, which had suffered from mismanagement, was then slenderly supported, and he retired from this office in less than three years. See AUibone, Dictionary of A uthors, i, 853 ; Bictionnaire Universe!, xix, 309.
Hoard, Samuel, B.D.,was born in London in 1599, and educated at Oxford. He was rector of iNIoreton, Es.-iex. In the latter years of his lifi he forsook the Calvinistic path, and became a zealou's advocate of the Arminian doctrine. He is said to have been a fine scholar, especially at home in the works of the fathers of the Church, and was considered a superior preacher and good disputant. He died in 1657. Hoard wrote GoiVs Love to Mankind (1633, 4to; anonymous, and an- swered by Bp. Davenant [Cambridge, 1641, 8vo] and D •. Twiss [Oxford, 1653, fol.], and by Amyraut of Saumur in his Doctrime Jo. Culvini de ahsuluto Reprohationis 1)(- cretu Defensio adv. 8c7-ipf. anomjmum [Saum. 1641, 4to]) : — The Church's Authority asserted (1037, 4to ; and in Hickes's Tracts, 1709, 8vo, p. 190). He also published some sermons of less value, however. — Smith's Hagen- bach. Hist, of Doctrines, ii, 187 ; Darling. Cyclop. Bihlioy. i, 1498; AUibone, />jc/. of Authors, i,853.
Hoare, Ciiaules James, an eminent clergyman of the Church of England, the date of wliose birth is un- certain, was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1803. In 1806 he was elected fel- low of his alma mater ; in 1807 he was appointed vicar at Blanford Forum, Dorsetshire ; in 1821, at Godstone; in 1829, archdeacon; and in 1831, canon of W^inchester. In 1847 he was translated to the archdeaconate of Surrey, which position he resigned in 1860 on account of his age. He died January 15, 1864. He was an extensive writer, and many of his works have been published. A complete list of them is given in Darling's Cyclop. Bill. i, 1498-99. Among them are. Course of Divine Judy- vients ; eiyht Jj-ct. principally in reference to the present Times and the impendiny Pestilence (183\, 8vo; 1832) :— Baptism, or the ministration of public Baptism of In- fants, to be read in the Church, scripliindl'/ illustrated and explained (1848, sm.Svo) :—/'/■;,•«■;/ V.x nf iIip Tracts fur the Times (1841, 8vo) ; and a nunilKT < if theological essays and sermons, of which Se}-nions on the Christian Character,vfith occasional sermons (3d edit. Lond. 1822, 8vo), deserve special notice. — Appleton's Amer. Annual Ci/clop. 1865, p. 664; AiXihowe, Dictionary of Authors, i, 853.
Ho'bab (Heb. Chohah', Snh, beloved; Sept. '0/3a/3, in Judg. 'Iioj3(ij3), the son of Raguel the IMidianite, s kinsman of Moses (Numb, x, 29; Judg. iv, 11). B.C