Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/J. Murray Hoag
Hoag's role in the civil war received a mention for gallantry, which is provided in numerous listings of such mentions, including Williams 2012. During the war, there were few medals for gallantry other than the Medal of Honor (I don't think he would qualify for the Butler Medal, for instance). His role in the Freedmen's Bureau in Georgia is given mention, generally passing, in numerous books, including Cimbala 1997, Jones 2009, and Harris and Berry 2014. He is a central character in Cimbala 1997, with mentions on 8 pages in the text and 10 more in the notes. His relationship with black teachers is analysed in Whittington 1991. After leaving the bureau, he moved to Iowa where he became one of the most prominent Shetland pony breeders in the country, operating what was for a time the largest Shetland pony ranch in the country and being president of the main US Shetland pony association. Most of the 308 newspapers.com results for a search for '"J M Hoag" OR "J Murray Hoag"' during his lifetime are really about him and most of those are about his farm career (https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=%22j+m+hoag%22+OR+%22j+murray+hoag%22&dr_year=1860-1917). Between the Spanish-American War and World War I, he was an army recruiter in Buffalo, which resulted in his promotion to major and in numerous other mentions in newspapers. When he died, he had obituaries in minor Iowa and New York newspapers that I can find. His GAR record provides a clear thread so that connecting these different phases of his life is not |OR. The article has a variety of sources, so I think it passes , and is neutrally written, passing . I would suggest that Whittington 1991 and Cimbala 1997 go a long ways towards GNG, with his obituaries contributing to that case as well. His work in Shetland pony breeding in America has a weak claim to ANYBIO#2. He doesn't quite meat SOLDIER, but almost meets #1 and #2 as being mentioned for gallantry was the second highest way of being honored for valor at the time and holding the rank of Major is a significant degree of promotion for someone who enlisted as a private
— User:Smmurphy, 15:56, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:OR||WP:V||WP:NPOV (Wikipedia:No original research)