Abraham Hoagland

Abraham Lucas Hoagland (March 24, 1797 – February 14, 1872) was an early Mormon leader, pioneer, and one of the founders of Royal Oak, Michigan, and Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

[1] In 1843, he moved his family to Nauvoo, Illinois, where Joseph Smith ordained him an elder.

[1] Orson Pratt and Wilford Woodruff ordained him a bishop in Winter Quarters, Nebraska after the saints were driven from Nauvoo.

[2] When Brigham Young sent John Murdock to open a mission in Australia in 1851, Hoagland took his place as bishop of the 14th ward in Salt Lake City,[1][3] where he chose Wilford Woodruff's first wife, Phoebe, as the ward's first Relief Society president.

[5] Hoagland was the grandfather of Abraham H. Cannon and the father-in-law of both William Whitaker Taylor and George Q.