The Earle family : Ralph Earle and his descendants

Il8 THE EARLE FAMILY [Sixth
After his removal from Boston, he was at one period associated
with his brother-in-law, William A. Brown, in the wholesale flour
trade in New York City ; but then and ever after he regarded the
accumulation of wealth, beyond a reasonable competence, as of
secondary importance to the preservation of health, and to that comparative
leisure which permits the gratification of one's tastes, and
the enlargement of one's knowledge of men and manners in various
parts of the world. At two different times, accompanied by his
wife, he passed some years in Europe, once extending his journey
as far eastward as St. Petersburg, Cairo and Jerusalem.
He resided, at different periods of his life, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
in Philadelphia, Pa. ; in the interior of Northeastern Pennsylvania
and at a pleasant country-seat overlooking the Hudson river not far
from West Point, N. Y. ; but during the last twenty or twenty-five
years his home was in the northern suburbs of the city of New Bed-
ford, Mass. Here he died, and here his widow still lives.
[358-4]. Eliazbeth 6 Earle (Robertf Robert,** Ralph,*
William, 2 Ralph 1
), dau. of Robert and Sarah (Hunt)
Earle, b. July 5, 1769, in Leicester, Mass. ; m. Dec. 31,
1794, David Hoag (b. May 30, 1764), of Peru, now Au
Sable, Clinton Co., N. Y., where she d. Feb. 12, 1856.
Her husband d. sbout 1840.
Their children were :
893- 1. Lydia Hoag, b. Oct. 11, 1795
; m. William Keese. Lived
in Au Sable.
894- 2. Cynthia Hoag, b. April 23, 1797; m% Ist ' Samuel
Knowles ; 2d, William Keese, of Au Sable; no issue.
895- 3. Hannah Hoag, b. Jan. 10, 1799; d. unm., June 11, 1825.
896- 4. Phebe Hoag, b. Dec. 7, 1800; d. unm., May 9, 1826.
897- 5.
898- 6.
Pliny E. Hoag, b. April 12, 1802 ; m. Eliza Ann Leggett
d. Dec. 22, 1874, in Au Sable.
Persis Hoag, b. July 20, 1805; m. Seneca Hazard; d.
899. 7.
900- 8.
901- 9,
Dec. 14, 1855.
Embrie E. Hoag, b. Nov. 22, 1807 ; m. Almira Weston.
Eliza E. Hoag, b. Oct. 12, 1809 ; d. unm., Oct. 20, 1845.
Russell V". Hoag, b. May 29, 181 1 ; d. unm., Nov. 26,
1832.
902-10.
903-11.
Sarah E. Hoag, b. Feb. 9, 1813 ; d. unm., Dec. 16, 1840.
Elihu H. Hoag, b. Sept. 16, 1814; m. Ruth Leggett.
Lives in Au Sable.
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