Jesse hoagland biography

When Jesse Hoagland was born in , in Shenango, West Salem Township, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Henry Hoagland, was 30 and his mother, Catherine Phillips, was He had at least 1 son and 3 daughters with Elizabeth Curey. He lived in Brookfield Township, Trumbull, Ohio, United States in He died on 12 February , at the age of 95, and was buried in Brookfield Cemetery, Brookfield, Trumbull, Ohio, United States.

Discovering the remnants of a once thriving Trenton of forty years ago as I ride up West State Street, is like taking a self-guided museum tour, minus the music, commentary, and earbuds. Faded names of department stores, movie houses, and restaurants of a long ago era stubbornly remain visible at second and third-story level on buildings now transformed into nondescript, gray government offices. You may even be working in one of these state offices right now as you read this column.

Now consider the number of individuals we pass by every day who, quietly, methodically, earned their place in the historical archives of The City of Trenton in education, architecture, entertainment, medicine, business, and other professions. We often, unwittingly, cross paths with these living legends of history every week at the supermarket, the bank, the drugstore, and the mall.

If you’ve been reading this column over the past year, you know that I am not a naïve Trentonian, so I learn something new about my adopted city all the time.

I had no idea (nor did most of the students he serves every day) until a year ago that the crossing guard on my corner is the inventor of weightlifting equipment and a manufacturing company that has changed the field of competitive powerlifting. His trademark products have been used over the years by fifteen NFL teams.

A Trenton High School alumnus, and legendary sports entrepreneur, Jesse Hoagland invented the weightlifting “squat bar” that “…revolution (ized) the world of professional weight training, (“Blacks with Unusual Businesses: Innovative Entrepreneurs Prosper by Ignoring the Beaten Paths to Success”, by Roxanne Brown, Ebony Magazine, December , p).

A former steel factory worker, Hoagland bent each bar himself by hand, and for 29 years manufactured and distributed his invention through his own company, Natural Power Safety and Fitness, funding it himself and putting all profits back into the business. He had no choice. Small business

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