Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Hoge, Harry S 1870 - 
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Author: History of Grundy County 1914

Hoge, Harry S. – The business of farming is one that is very successfully 
carried on in Saratoga Township, Grundy County, where there are people who 
love their land and treasure it as a heritage.  Such is the case in the 
present instance, Harry S. Hoge owning eighty acres of the old Hoge homestead, 
to which he has added 160 acres, all of which is cultivated according to the 
latest methods of modern farming.  Harry S. Hoge was born in Saratoga 
Township, Grundy County, Ill., October 8, 1870, and is a son of James B. and 
Eliza (Hatcher) Hoge.

James B. Hoge was the first white child born in Nettle Creek Township, Grundy 
County, a son of William and Rachel (Bowls) Hoge.  They were natives of 
Virginia and came to this section in 1832, buying government land in Nettle 
Creek Township, where they lived until death.  James B. Hoge grew up on his 
father’s farm and married Eliza Hatcher, a daughter of Elijah Hatcher, who had 
come with his family to Nettle Creek Township from Belmont County, Ohio.  
After marriage, James B. Hoge and wife settled in Saratoga Township, where he 
became a grain farmer.  His wife died there in 1903 and his death occurred 
October 8, 1905.  They had the following children:  William, of Grand Haven, 
Mich.; Fred, of Morris, Ill.; Florence, Mrs. Charles Lumburg, of Chicago; 
Minnie, Mrs. Christ Lobe, of Dwight, Ill.; and Harry S.

Harry S. Hoge attended the public schools near his home and is the only one of 
his class yet living in this neighborhood.  Until May 2, 1893, when he married 
Miss Mary E. Kaye, he assisted his father but then purchased eighty acres of 
the homestead, as mentioned above, and carries on farming on this land and 
also on his 160 acres in Nettle Creek Township, additionally raising hogs and 
feeding cattle for market.  His stock operations are important enough to 
warrant the name he has given his place, the Saratoga Stock Farm.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Hoge have four children:  Frank T., Walter T., Jessie B., and E. Kaye, 
all at home.

Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914, p828

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