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Hoegg Biographical Review Cumberland County, Maine Boston Biographical Review Publishing Company 1896 Page 455-456 Daniel W. Hoegg, an enterprising resident of Deering, Me., who is extensively engaged in the packing and canning industry on Bay Chaleur, Canada, was born November 12, 1827, in East Cambridge, Mass. His father, Daniel Hutchins Hoegg, a native of Bow, Merrimack County, N. H., was born in 1793, and died in 1853. When twenty-one years of age, or about the time of the close of the War of 1812-14, Daniel H. Hoegg removed to Cambridgeport, Mass., where he secured employment with William Walker, a brick manufacturer, with whom he remained for some time after serving his apprenticeship. He subsequently established himself in business in that locality, continuing there until his removal to Westbrook, in this State, where he purchased a farm, and, in conjunction with general farming, engaged in manufacturing brick. He married Elizabeth Walker, who bore him six children, of whom but two are living, namely: Eliza Ann, wife of Obadiah George, of Cambridgeport, Mass.; and Daniel W. The parents were among the leading members of the Methodist church. Daniel W. Hoegg completed his education in the public schools of Westbrook, whither his parents removed when he was about sixteen years old. In 1851 he left the home farm, becoming one of a party of four, three of whom were boys, to start for California, purchasing their through tickets from Boston to San Francisco from a Boston firm who represented themselves as having a commodious line of steamers running from New York to the Isthmus, and equally fine accommodations from Panama to their point of destination. On arriving in New York, instead of a ship of twelve hundred tons the party found a small steam propeller of five hundred and thirty tons, which was to carry the five hundred passengers holding tickets. The accommodations being so limited, the authorities removed two hundred of the passengers before issuing clearance papers. Meeting with severe storms off Cape Hatteras, they were fourteen days in reaching Chagres, and were then obliged, as the rivers were low, to walk across the Isthmus: After a stay of four weeks in Panama, a merchant fitted up an old barque, the "Ann Smith," in which Mr. Hoegg and his companions continued their journey. After fifty-two days, having traversed fifteen hundred miles, but still being two thousand miles from San Francisco, they put in at Acapulco, where Mr. Hoegg's cousin, a member of the party, died, and was buried on shore. Their barque being condemned, the party were obliged to remain here five weeks, this detention taking the last remaining penny of Mr. Hoegg and his two associates. They were, however, fortunate enough to find a friend from the States who assisted them in securing a passage to California, which they reached four and one-half months after their embarkation at New York. Returning to Maine in 1854, after two years of California life, Mr. Hoegg shortly entered the employ of the Winslow Packing Company of Portland, remaining with them many years, locating and superintending their different factories. In 1873 he started in business for himself on Bay Chaleur, Canada, where he has now twelve factories in active operation. He is the pioneer packer of fruits and vegetables in Canada, having established this branch of his industry in 1878, prior to which time he had given his attention to the salmon and lobster business only. He has made annual visits to the Bay for the past thirty-seven years, having been the first to establish the business on a permanent basis. In June, 1894, the factory at Fredericton was burned out, but has been rebuilt upon a much more extensive scale, all the newest machinery and appliances having been put in. Something of the magnitude of the business carried on may be gathered from the following figures, which are for the Fredericton factory, one of the twelve under their control. Here are packed about two million pounds of lobsters and two hundred thousand pounds of salmon, which are frozen and sent to New York and Boston markets. Most of the lobsters and blueberries are sent to the United States, the other fruits and the vegetables being largely sold in Canada. At this Fredericton factory are also packed about one hundred and fifty thousand cans of corn, one hundred thousand cans of peas, and from one hundred and fifty thousand to two hundred thousand cans of other fruits and vegetables. Mr. Hoegg was likewise at one time engaged in business with Messrs. Thompson & Hall at Jay Bridge, but sold his interest in the factory to his partners in 1892. Mr. Hoegg's first wife, Maria A. Bailey, of Westbrook, died, leaving one son, George W., who is in partnership with his father. His present wife, Mary A., daughter of John W. Wilson, of Leominster, Mass., is the mother of two children - Isabel H. and D. Winfield. Mr. Hoegg is a strong Republican in politics, and, socially, is a Chapter Mason, belonging to Temple Lodge of Westbrook. Mr. and Mrs. Hoegg attend the Methodist church. The portrait placed opposite the beginning of the foregoing sketch will be recognized as a very good likeness of the gentleman whose business career is thus briefly set forth -Mr. Daniel W. Hoegg.