Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Hogue MD, James H. November 5, 1860 - ???? ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Judy Banja http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00004.html#0000757 December 21, 2024, 9:44 am Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892. Author: Samuel T. Wiley JAMES H. HOGUE, M.D., one of the young and progressive physicians of Altoona, and a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Baltimore, Maryland, is a son of Joseph and Sarah Ann (Calwell) Hogue, and was born at Watsontown, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1860. His paternal ancestry is traced back to Scotland, where nearly two centuries ago a member of the Hogue family became wearied with the persecution which he suffered from the civil authorities of that country on account of his dissenting from the established religion of Great Britain, and in order to enjoy religious freedom came to the then province of New Jersey. He was the founder of the Hogue family of America, from whom Dr. Hogue is descended. One of his sons graduated from Princeton College, and afterwards removed to Pennsylvania, where one of his descendants, Joseph Hogue (father), was born in 1809, in Northumberland County. Joseph Hogue was reared and received his education in his native county, and then engaged in the general mercantile business, which he pursued for many years in Northumberland, Snyder, Montour and other counties. He was a whig and republican in politics, served as a postmaster for over thirty years, under the administration of both whigs and democrats, and died in 1868, aged fifty-nine years. He married Sarah Ann Calwell, who died in 1863, aged thirty-eight years. They had six children of whom four sons are living and two daughters died when young. The sons are: Daniel C., who served in the late war successively as a member of the 131st Pennsylvania infantry for nine months, the 28th regiment of emergency men for thirty days, and the 202d Pennsylvania infantry until the close of the war, and then returned to Watsontown, Northumberland county, where after being engaged for some time in the manufacturer of nails, he embarked in his present lumber business; Dr. Davis A. (see his sketch in this volume); Edmund B., a conductor on the Wilkesbarre & Western railroad; and Dr. James H. James H. Hogue was reared at Watsontown, where he received his education in the High school of that place. Leaving school, he commenced the study of medicine with his brother, Dr. Davis A. Hogue, of Watsontown, and after twelve months' reading became a student in the West Penn hospital of Pittsburg, where he remained for two years. During the time that he was studying in the hospital, he was also attending lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore, Maryland, from which institution he was graduated in the class of 1885. After graduation he opened an office for the practice of his profession at Du Bois, Clearfield county, where he remained but three months, and then went to Coalport, in the same county, at which place he practiced for two years. He then (1887) came to Altoona and formed a partnership with Dr. John Feltwell, which continued until May, 1891, since which time Doctor Hogue has been in partnership with no one. He is a general practitioner, but makes a specialty of diseases of women. His close study of the different complicated diseases that came under his observation in the Wet Penn hospital has been of great value to him in his successful treatment of many obstinate and chronic case that had baffled the skill of the ordinary physician. He gives his time to the profession, and has a good practice. He is a republican in politics, and a member of Coalport Lodge, No. 481, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Blair County Medical society; and the Pennsylvania State Medical society. On October 18, 1888, Doctor Hogue was united in marriage with Rose, daughter of George McDowell, a land owner of Clinton County, Pennsylvania, who resided upon one of his three large farms, which he kept constantly rented. To Dr. and Mrs. Hogue has been born one child, a son, Herbert McDowell. Additional Comments: Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Cheryl Heny MHeny@Prodigy.net. This file has been created by a form at http://www.usgwarchives.net/pafiles/ File size: 4.6 Kb