Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Hoge, Joshua Jr 1850 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com February 25, 2006, 11:51 pm Author: History Grundy County 1882 Joshua Hoge, Jr., farmer, P. O. Morris, the subject of this sketch is a native of the county of Grundy, Ill., born July 25, 1850, son of Samuel and Matilda Hoge, of Nettle Creek Township. Raised in Grundy County and educated in the State Normal Lombard University, and took a course in Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College of Chicago. Married, February 19, 1876, in Morris, to Miss Lora E. Quigley, daughter of Henry and Matilda Quigley, formerly of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Hoge was born in the vicinity of Meadville, Crawford Co., Penn., December 11, 1859. They have a family of two children - Samuel Hoge, born in Grundy County, August 12, 1877; unnamed, born August 25, 1882. Subject owns a farm of 560 acres of valuable land in the town of Erienna, Sections 1 and 6, of Erienna; residence, four miles west from Morris. Value of land, $50 per acre; engaged in stock-raising and mixed husbandry; politics, Republican. Mrs. Hoge's father was a native of Pennsylvania, born 1812, and died in Crawford County, Penn., 1866. Her mother is now living with her son, E. H. Quigley, of Morris, in her fifty-seventh year. Additional Comments: Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/grundy/bios/hoge376nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb