Obituary of Judge Elijah Hogge

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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003
From: http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000008
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Judge Elijah Hogge 
Bath County News-Outlook Thursday, April 6, 1939 
Death Claims Widely Known Morehead Man 
   Judge Elijah Hogge, former special circuit judge of Rowan county and 
a member of the law firm of Hogge and Hogge, died at 5:30 o'clock Monday 
morning at his home at Morehead as the result of a heart attack.  He had 
been in ill health for two years. 
   Judge Hogge was one of Rowan county and Morehead's leading citizens and, 
with the late Judge Allie Young, was instrumental in having the Morehead 
State Teachers College located there.  He was widely known also as a lover 
of thoroughbred horses and from 1922 to 1934 served as steward of the 
Kentucky Jockey Club. 
   For many years he was a member of the legal firm of Young, Clay and 
Hogge, in which he was associated with the late William A. Young, the 
late Judge Allie Young and James Clay. 
   He served as Rowan county attorney from 1913 to 1917, and mayor of 
Morehead from 1918 to 1921.  Since 1934, he had been a member of the 
legal firm of Hogge and Hogge, associated with his relative, Lester Hogge. 
   He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Margaret Allen Hogge; a son, Walter 
Hogge, of Lexington; two daughters, Miss Mary Hogge of Morehead and Mrs. 
Roy Cornette, wife of the Rowan county school superintendent.  Funeral 
services were held at the Morehead Baptist church at 2 o'clock Wednesday 
afternoon, the Rev. B. H. Kazee, pastor, officiating, assisted by the 
Rev. Arthur Landolt, pastor of the Christian church, and the Rev. Mr. 
Traynor, pastor of the Methodist church.  Burial will be in the Lee 
Cemetery here.