Hogun

in military affairs. The provincial Congress of
April 1776 elected him (Apr. 22) first major of
the Halifax militia; at the November congress
he served on a committee to report upon the or-
ganization of the militia, and on Nov. 26, he was
elected colonel of the 7th Regiment of the North
Carolina Continental Line. He promptly organ-
ized his regiment and in July 1777 joined Wash-
ington's army in time to participate in the bat-
tles of Brandywine and Germantown. In 1778
Congress called upon North Carolina for four
new regiments of Continentals, and Hogun was
ordered home to help raise and organize them.
He was assigned to the command of the first
regiment to be organized and with it joined the
Continental Army at White Plains in August
1778. In November he was sent to West Point
and remained there at work on the fortifications
until the middle of December, when he was or-
dered to Philadelphia.

On Jan. 9,1779, the Continental Congress en-
tered upon the election of two brigadier-generals
of the North Carolina Continental Line. The
state's delegates in Congress, obeying instruc-
tions from the legislature, nominated and sup-
ported Col. Jethro Sumner, the senior colonel,
and Col. Thomas Clark; but Congress, taking
note of the fact that Hogun not only ranked
Clark but had behaved well in his several assign-
ments and had conducted himself "with distin-
guished intrepidity" at Germantown, disregard-
ed the state's recommendation and elected Sum-
ner and Hogun. Sumner was sent south to the
defense of Georgia and Hogun was assigned to
the command of the North Carolina brigade in
Washington's army. On Mar. 19, 1779, Bene-
dict Arnold, who had been in command of the
garrison at Philadelphia, was relieved at his own
request, and Washington assigned Hogun to the
command of the city. He retained command
there until Nov. 22, when he was relieved to
enable him to march his brigade to join General
Lincoln in the defense of Charleston, S. C. Gen-
eral Lincoln reported to the president of Con-
gress that Hogun's arrival at Charleston, Mar.
3, 1780, gave "great spirits to the Town and
confidence to the Army" (State Records, XIV,
799). His troops bore an active part in the un-
successful defense of the city and upon its sur-
render became prisoners of war. They were sent
to HaddrelTs Point on Sullivan's Island, where
they underwent great hardships. The British
offered Hogun a parole, but feeling that he ought
to share the fate of his men and fearing the effect
of his absence on the efforts of British recruiting
officers to enlist them for service in the West
Indies, he declined it. His health broke under

Hohfeld

the strain and he died at Haddrell's Point, Jan.
4, 1781.

Hogun married Ruth Norfleet, member of a
prominent North Carolina family, and by her
had one child, Lemuel, who survived him.

[Nothing is known of Hogun's life beyond the bare
official records. These are printed in The Colonial Rec-
ords of N. C., vols. IX and X (1890), ed. by W. L.
Satmders, and in The State Records of N. C., vols. XI-
XXII (1895-1907), ed. by Walter Clark. There is an
inadequate sketch by Clark in S. A. Ashe, Bipg. Hist, of
N. C.f vol. IV (1906), pp. 196-202, which is reprinted
in abridged form in the N. C. Booklet, Oct. 1911.]

R.D.W.C

HOHPELD, WESLEY NEWCOMB (Aug.
8, i879-0ct 21,1918), professor of law and legal
scholar, was born in Oakland, Cal., the fifth
child of a piano teacher, Edward Hohfeld, a na-
tive of Germany, and of Rosalie Hillebrand who
was related to Ernst Haeckel, the German phi-
losopher, and to William Francis Hillebrand
\_q.v.J. At fifteen, as a grammar-school graduate,
he received the superior scholarship medal and
three years later led the graduating class of the
Boys' High School of San Francisco. Gradu-
ating from the University of California in 1901,
he was awarded the university gold medal for
distinguished scholarship, after having received
the highest possible mark in every subject taken
during his entire course. One of the few per-
sons who had previously equalled this brilliant
scholastic record was Hohfeld's sister, Lily, who
won the medal in 1899, having as her closest
competitor her twin sister, Rose. Each of these
sisters had perfect marks in more courses than
were required for graduation.

Hohfeld matriculated in the Harvard Law
School in 1901 where his intellectual brilliance
again brought him honors in the form of selec-
tion as one of the editors of the Harvard Law
Review and graduation in 1904 cum laude. As
a law student he was especially attracted to John
Chipman Gray, who, because of his high regard
for Hohfeld's ability, engaged him to assist in
the briefing of an important case in which Gray
was counsel. He then entered the San Francisco
law office of Morrison, Cope & Brobeck, where
after only a year he was offered a partnership.
This offer he declined, however, to accept an in-
vitation to join the law faculty of Stanford
University. He preferred the quiet and scholar-
ly environment of the university with its oppor-
tunity for unbiased study to the usually hurried
and partisan intellectual pursuits of a busy law
office. He was on the Stanford law faculty from
1905 until 1914, when he was called to Yale,
Here he remained until his death. It was during
his tenure at these schools that he wrote and
published a series of monographs posthumously

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