Biography of Hiram H. Hogge

Hiram H. Hogge
Company E
1847-1918


Hiram H. Hogge (later changed to Hogue) was born in 1847 in Harrison County, Ohio to the parents of Robert H. Hogge and Catherine DeWitt. Robert H. Hogge was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania and was part of a large migration of Scotch Irish settlers in the Southwestern Pennsylvania area. Catherine DeWitt was a native of New Jersey. Hiram had three siblings: two sisters, Phoebe A. and Hattie, and one brother, John. They were all very active in the Presbyterian Church.

Hiram was reared in Harrison County until the outbreak of the Civil War. In February 1864, when Hiram was 17 years old, he ran away from home as his father had died and his mother remarried a man named William Steel who was abusive. He enlisted in Company E of the 60th Ohio Volunteer Infantry as a Private for a period of three years. He fought in the Virginia Campaign and served until February 6, 1865 when he was discharged due to the Surgeon's certificate of disability. After the war, he returned to Ohio, and shortly afterward moved to Illinois, where he engaged in the harness business. He remained in Illinois for four years, and then moved back to Knox County, Ohio for one year.

Hiram and his wife, Addie Davis (who was born in Switzerland County, Indiana in 1851), were married in Effingham, Illinois in 1870 and lived in Bates County, Missouri where he farmed for 6 years.In 1874, they moved to Labette County, Kansas, just south of Altamont, and near Mt. Pleasant and raised their seven children: Nellie, Hattie, Lucretia (Lula/Lulu), Hurley, Herbert (Hilbert), Mollie, and Marshall.

In 1892, he purchased a farm in Elm Grove Township, in the south half of the northwest quarter of Section 3, Township 34, Range 19. He made all the improvements to the farm and was considered one of the County's most prominent farmers. He maintained all the modern methods of tilling the soil, and was an energetic and thrifty farmer. He continued to farm for the next 10 or 15 years until the entire family moved to Seattle, Washington. Hiram H. Hogge was also a member of the Republican Party.

Their son, Hurley married Della (Delvora) Holmes, daughter of Charles O. Holmes and Susannah Hannah Barnett, also prominent farmers of Labette County, Kansas at that time. Hurley and Della raised 3 children: Lila Hogue, Wanda Hogue, and Mayo Hurley Maurice Hogue. They all moved to Seattle where Hiram and Addie lived with their daughter, Nellie. Nellie owned several Hotels in the Seattle area at the time.

Hiram died in 1918 in Seattle where he was buried with the Civil War burial and Addie followed him in 1925 and is buried next to him in Lakeview Cemetery in Seattle.

Some information from History of Labette County, Kansas and its Representative Citizens, ed. & comp. by Hon. Nelson Case. Chicago, Illinois: Biographical Publishing Co., 1901.


A special thanks to Kristy Miller and David Hogue for contributing this information. Hiram H. Hogge was their great great grandfather.




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