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Author: Will T. Hale

   WILLIAM MILLINGTON HOGINS. As a Civil war veteran with a record for

indomitable courage; as a former successful agriculturist of this county; and as

a merchant in Dickson at the present time, William Millington Hogins is a

representative citizen of Tennessee. His grandparents, William and Edna Hogins,

were natives of North Carolina, but his father, Abram Hogins, was born in

Dickson county, to which his grandfather had come when the region was a mere

wilderness. An early settler of Hickman county, Tennessee, was Millington

Easley, whose daughter Sarah was born in that locality in 1825, five years later

than the birth of Abram Hogins. In 1841 the two were married and settled on a

farm where Abram Hogins conducted general agricultural operations, specializing

in the raising of horses and mules, in which stock he was an extensive leader.

Abram Hogins was a member of the Whig party and for several years served his

community in the capacity of magistrate. To him and Sarah Easley Hogins, one son

was born—he whose name forms the caption of this sketch. Mrs. Hogins died in

1844 and Abram Hogins afterward re-married, his second wife being Sarah

Phillips; of this marriage four children were born.



   The birthplace of William H. Hogins was the rural homestead in Dickson county

and his natal day was December 8, 1843. In the free schools of Dickson county he

gained his elementary knowledge of book-lore and early passed to the activities

of farming. On the occasion of the outbreak of the Civil war, Mr. Hogins

enlisted in Company B of the Forty-ninth Tennessee regiment, with which he

served until the fall of Fort Donelson. At that time he was taken ill with

typhoid fever. When he recovered he again enlisted, this time with the Eleventh

Tennessee regiment, in which command he continued from June of 1862 until April

of 1864. He then returned to his former regiment, remaining with them until his

capture, in the engagement at Franklin. He was liberated on the close of the

war—a period in which he had fought in practically all important engagements and

had never asked for nor been granted a furlough. He carries marks of a wound in

the right shoulder from a shot received in the battle of Atlanta.



   When peace at last prevailed over a troubled land, Mr. Hogins returned to his

vocation of farming, in which he has continued for some forty years. He has

devoted much attention to stock-raising, in which he has been eminently

successful, and which he still continues, in connection with his more recent

occupation.



   A large and creditable family has been reared by William Hogins and his wife.

Mrs. Hogins was in her girlhood Miss Susan Tidwell, daughter of Moses Tidwell,

then one of the leading farmers of Dickson county. Their eight sons and

daughters were named and are located as follows: A. F., in Dickson, Tennessee;

Nannie L., now Mrs. W. E. Leggit, in Dickson; Ella, now Mrs. J. T. Sugg, wife of

Dr. Sugg, in Davidson county; W. W. Hogins, in Dickson; Minnie, now Mrs. T. C.

Jordan, in Davidson county; E. E. Hogins, in Louisville, Kentucky; Susan, now

Mrs. J. M. Hooper, in Nashville; and W. Bay, in Dickson county.



   With his sons as partners Mr. Hogins established in Dickson in 1904 a

mercantile business in which the commodities handled are groceries, meat and

feed. The company has veen very successful, both in pleasing customers and in

gaining the due amount of profit. The family form a valued acquisition to the

life of the city, being prominent in the religious organization of the Church of

the Disciples. Mr. Hogins' political views are independently Democratic.





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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913



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