Born in Michigan. Traveled to California in the same company with GQC. Assigned to a wagon with Thomas Whittle and Joseph Peck. Brother of Elizabeth Hoagland, who married GQC in 1854. (Mentioned in FamilySearch 2.23, Ancestral File entry for Peter Hoagland, 1992 Rel., Ancestral File Number 1B95–1H, Family History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah; and in GQC journal, 25 Oct. 1849.)