Records of Horatio Hocken on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Horatio Hocken and the Hocken Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Hocken Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Hocken family tree.

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Some Famous People called Horatio Hocken

Horatio Clarence Hocken

Horatio Clarence Hocken (October 12, 1857 – February 18, 1937) was a Canadian politician, Mayor of Toronto, social reformer, a founder of what became the Toronto Star and Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of British America from 1914-1918.

Born in Toronto in what was pre-Confederation Canada West, Hocken had a media career as a printer, publisher and journalist. After working as a typesetter at the Toronto Globe at which he led a strike, Hocken, in 1892, Hocken was a foremen in the print room of the Toronto News when the Typographical Union went on strike. He and 20 other strikers founded the Evening Star as a strike paper with Hocken as the new paper's business manager. He subsequently left the Star and returned to the News where he became city editor. In 1905 he purchased The Orange Sentinel, a weekly newspaper serving supporters of the Orange Order.

Source: Horatio Clarence Hocken, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Hocken

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