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Eugene G. Hoitt

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Eugene Gorham Hoitt
6th Mayor
of Marlborough, Massachusetts[1]
In office
1892–1892
Preceded byCharles L. Bartlett
Succeeded byEdward J. Plunkett
Personal details
BornApril 12, 1850[1]
Manchester, New Hampshire[1]
DiedApril 12, 1928 [2]
Seattle, Washington
Political partyDemocratic[1]
SpouseSarah Frances Barrett
Alma materBuffalo University, 1881[1]
OccupationSurgeon[1]

Eugene Gorham Hoitt (1850–1928)[2] was a Massachusetts surgeon[1] and politician who served as the sixth mayor of Marlborough, Massachusetts.[1]

Family

Hoitt was the oldest child of the railroad engineer Samuel Locke Hoitt and Ann Jane Hadley.[2] In 1864, his father survived the Shohola train wreck as the engineer of the Confederate prisoner's train.[3] In 1873 Hoitt married Sarah Frances Barrett, with whom he had two daughters.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Bigelow, Ella A. (1910), Historical Reminiscences of the early times in Marlborough, Massachusetts: and Prominent Events from 1860 to 1910, Including Brief Allusions to Many Individuals and an Account of the Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town, Marlborough, Massachusetts: Times Pub. Co., p. 359.
  2. ^ a b c Eugene G. Hoitt at Find a Grave
  3. ^ Samuel Locke Hoitt at Find a Grave
  4. ^ Bigelow, Ella A. (1910), Historical Reminiscences of the early times in Marlborough, Massachusetts: and Prominent Events from 1860 to 1910, Including Brief Allusions to Many Individuals and an Account of the Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town, Marlborough, Massachusetts: Times Pub. Co., p. 360.
Political offices
Preceded by 3rd Mayor of Marlborough, Massachusetts
1898-1898
Succeeded by