Winifred Virginia Jackson, The Poetical Works of Jonathan E. Hoag… (1923)
“ Jonathan E. Hoag, whose eighty-seventh birthday our pages cordially celebrate, was born at Valley Falls, New York, on the tenth of February, 1831. Throughout his life a student, poet, philosopher, and temperance worker, he stands today as a model for the rising age; an example of the best which the generous past affords. In Mr. Hoag we may observe that rarest and finest of mortals—a true gentleman of the old school. ”
