James Hogarth Biography


	This biography appears on pages 800-803 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				JAMES HOGARTH.  

	Industrial activity in Deadwood finds a worthy representative in 
James Hogarth, who is proprietor of a foundry and to this business he 
is devoting the greater part of his time and attention, although he has 
other important interests and investments. His plant includes a foundry 
and machine shop and in addition to the foundry business he is engaged 
in wagon and carriage building, in horseshoeing and general repair 
work. His business has developed along substantial lines since he 
started out for himself in Deadwood in 1889 and he now has a well 
equipped plant and a growing and profitable patronage. A native of the 
north of England, he was born at Cumberland, January 22, 1868, a son of 
Robert and Elizabeth (Hudson) Hogarth, also natives of that place. The 
father was a blacksmith and horseshoer, following the business to which 
generations of the family had given their attention. He devoted his 
entire attention to his trade and both he and his wife passed away in 
England, the latter dying when their son James was but three years of 
age, while the father survived until 1910 and passed away at the 
advanced age of eighty-three years.  

	James Hogarth attended the public schools of England and when a 
youth of fifteen years began learning the trade of a foundry man and 
machinist, completing his apprentice. ship at the age of twenty-one. He 
worked in his native country for some time as a journeyman and then 
came to the United States, making his way direct to Deadwood, where he 
arrived on the 17th of March, 1889. There he rented a shop and started 
in business on his own account. He has added to and expanded his 
interests and has developed the business to its present extensive 
proportions. About 1896 he became interested in the cattle business, 
with which he was connected until 1910, when he found that his other 
interests required his entire attention. He then disposed of his cattle 
and now concentrates his efforts upon other business activities with 
which he is identified. He is a director in the Gold King Mine Company 
at Rochford, also in the Lead Zinc Mining Company of Deadwood and is a 
stockholder in various other mines, but his attention is chiefly given 
to the management of his foundry and machine shop. When; he purchased 
his present property he had a small frame building. In 1902 he erected 
a two-story brick building, twenty-five by eighty feet, and in 1908 he 
purchased adjoining property and erected thereon a brick structure 
fifty by eighty feet, which is used as the foundry and machine shop, In 
addition to the work carried on therein he is engaged in wagon and 
carriage building and built a wagon for the city fire department. He 
likewise does horseshoeing and general repair work and his trade has 
grown year by year, his industry making him one of the leading factors 
in business circles in Deadwood.  

	On the 24th of November, 1892, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. 
Hogarth and Miss Regina Dahl, who was born at Decorah, Iowa, a daughter 
of O. H. and Mary (Johnson) Dahl. Her father was a farmer and at the 
time of the Civil war served with an Iowa regiment in the Union army. 
While in the service he contracted an illness and died soon after the 
close of hostilities, passing away in Decorah, where his widow resides. 
Mrs. Hogarth was the second of five daughters in a family of eight 
children. By her marriage she has become the mother of five children, 
as follows: Robert, who assists his father in the conduct of his 
business interests; Maude L., a student in the State Normal School at 
Spearfish; Louis James, who also assists his father; and Ruth and 
Edith, both of whom are attending school.  

	Mr. Hogarth is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and he 
belongs also to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Ancient Order 
of United Workmen and the Yeomen. In politics he is an earnest and 
stalwart republican and he is now serving for the ninth year as a 
member of the city council of Deadwood, in which connection he fosters 
and endorses many measures and movements for the general good, seeking 
ever the welfare and improvement of the city with which he has now been 
connected for more than a quarter of a century.