Enos D. Hoge

[1] During the American Civil War, Hoge served as first lieutenant and captain of Company H, 110th Illinois Infantry Regiment, from September 11, 1862, to May 8, 1863, when he was honorably discharged.

During this service, he participated in the Battle of Stones River in December, 1862, where heavy cannon fire left him deaf in his right ear.

In 1875, Hoge was a defense attorney in the first trial of John D. Lee, one of the accused participants in the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

[2] By 1904, it was reported that his income from the practice of law "had ceased almost entirely and to the extent that it fails to furnish him the common necessaries of life", that his law library and office furniture had been destroyed in a fire and his only property consisted of $150 to $200 worth of household goods, and that he had no other income.

[2] His funeral was held by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he had been a grand master,[1] and was reported as having been well-attended.