Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Hoge, Hendley 1840 - 
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Author: History of Grundy County 1914

Hoge, Hendley – The most substantial men in any community are those who have 
retired from the activities of an agricultural life, and are now enjoying the 
fruits of their strenuous labors.  Morris is no exception to this rule, and 
its different townships have sent some of their richest agriculturists to 
swell the ranks of well-to-do citizens in the county seat.  One of these thus 
representative of our leisure class, is Hendley Hoge.  He was born in Nettle 
Creek Township, July 14, 1840, son of Samuel and Matilda (Holderman) Hoge, he 
born in Virginia in 1805, and she in Ross County, Ohio, in 1820.  The paternal 
grandfather was John Hoge, of Virginia, while the maternal grandparents were 
Abraham and Charlotte Holderman.  The Hoge family came to Grundy County in the 
early thirties, preempted land, securing valuable timber and prairie sites.  
The Holdermans settled in Kendall County, and were pioneers of that section.  
Samuel Hoge married Matilda Holderman, at Morris, and they began housekeeping 
on his farm in Nettle Creek Township.  In time, Samuel Hoge became a heavy 
landowner.  He died on his farm March 13, 1881.  His widow, in 1886, moved to 
Morris, where she died February 14, 1898.

Hendley Hoge was the eldest of the ten children born to his parents, and 
remained at home until his marriage, December 16, 1864, to Virginia Silcott, 
born in Adams County, Ohio, daughter of Craven and Elizabeth (Tavener) 
Silcott, of Loudoun County, Va.  After marriage, Mr. Hoge moved to a farm he 
owned in Nettle Creek Township, and in time acquired 640 acres of magnificent 
farm land, on which he carried on general farming and stock raising.  In 
January, 1899, he took possession of a fine residence he had built at Morris, 
where he has since lived retired, renting his farm.  He and his wife have had 
two children:  Edgar S., on the home farm, married Annie Anderson, a native of 
Sweden, and they have six children, four girls and two boys; and Laura M., 
wife of Fred Stephens of Morris; and they have two daughters.  A Republican, 
Mr. Hoge has served as assessor, road commissioner, and supervisor, and is a 
man of prominence in the county.  Although his education was acquired only in 
the schools of the country districts, he is a well read and thoroughly 
informed man, and much interested in current events.  The family is a fine one 
and comes of old Quaker stock.

Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914, p828-9

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