Stephens-Rabun County GaArchives News.....Biographical Sketches--Daniel E. Hogsed October 22, 1908 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: June Coker McNew http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007420 January 23, 2012, 9:28 pm The Toccoa Record, Toccoa, Stephens County, Georgia October 22, 1908 The Toccoa Record, 22 Oct 1908, p. 1. Biographical Sketches—Story of Two “Self-Made” Men. Daniel E. Hogsed. It has been said that difficulties are stepping stones to success. It is truer in the case of Mr. Daniel E. Hogsed than in any record yet seen by the writer of these biographical sketches. Mr. Hogsed was born on an Oconee county, South Carolina farm, the first year of the Civil War—Sept. 14, 1861, of Irish parentage. His father, a soldier, was killed in battle, which left a widow and four young children to struggle against the hardships to come. So hard were the times, Mr. Hogsed went to school but little—less than eight months, all told. At the age of twelve his mother moved the family to Macon county, North Carolina, where they continued their agricultural pursuits. “These were trying times,” says Mr. Hogsed. “We rented an ox from a neighbor and I was pressed into service, plowing this ox on a mountain side. We worked hard, and better times were in store for us.” Mr. Hogsed was married at the age of 22, a little later moving to Rabun county, where he purchased a farm and conducted it for about twelve years. In 1898 he sold his farm and came to Toccoa, and went into the livery business with N. L. Garland. This venture proved profitable, but having an inclination for the hardware business, he sold out to Mr. Garland and opened a hardware store in the quarters where he now presides. This business was a grand success from its inception, and the credit Belongs to this mountain genius whose head for business and heart for honesty has made him the best hardware man in this section of the state. Born on the farm, he knows the farmer, and today they come, some of them from long distances to get their implements from him. Every year his trade broadens in its scope. It takes a large ware-room to hold the implements he carries in stock. Everything in the hardware line is carried and sold, and at much closer prices, so many farmers tell us, than many of his competitors can make. Mr. Hogsed’s first wife died the second year after he came to Toccoa. A few years later he married again. He has been a Steward in the Methodist church for twenty-two years, is prominently known in fraternity circles, is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the W.O.W., Red Men, and Odd Fellows. Besides these honors, Mr. Hogsed has served in the City Council for several years. He is also the president of the Toccoa Business Men’s Association, and Vice President of the Merchants’ Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Georgia. He is a man of push, energy and ability, and is ever ready to help n anything pertaining to the welfare of Toccoa or the people in this section. He advertises his business extensively and thereby advertises his town, in whose future he has great faith. [The other biography on this date was of Thomas A. Capps. Photos of both men appeared in this article.] Transcribed by June Coker McNew, January 2011. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/stephens/newspapers/biograph3185nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb