Horatio Clarence Hocken, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Horatio Clarence Hocken

Canadian politician

Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1857

Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 18-Feb-1937

Profession: politician

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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.