Fayette County, West Virginia -   Biography: GORY HOGG

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WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume 5, page 234-235

        GORY HOGG, physician and surgeon has practiced more than thirty
years with home at Harvey in Fayette County. He has many financial and
business relationships with the community and has given much time to public
service in unremunerated positions.

        Doctor Hogg is a descendant of Peter Hogg, who came to America in
1745 and located in Augusta County, Virginia. He was a counselor to King
George III, and was given a patent to a large tract of land by the King,
this land being located near Point Pleasant, West Virginia. He was captain
in Colonial and the Revolutionary wars and was a man of high rank and
prominence. The old parchment recording his land patent is still carefully
preserved by his descendants. Peter Hogg founded a family which has been
widely dispersed over West Virginia and other states. One of his
descendants was Thomas Gory Hogg, son of Peter (II), and his wife, Patsy
Abney, and the grandfather of Doctor Hogg. Abney, and the grandfather of
Doctor Hogg, Walter Harden Hogg. Walter Harden Hogg, father of Doctor Hogg,
was born and reared in Mason County, and followed farming and stock raising
in that vicinity until his death in 1917, at the age of seventy-nine. He
married Elizabeth McGuffin, a native of Jackson County, West Virginia,
reared in Mason County from early childhood. She is an active worker in the
Presbyterian Church and an active member of the Daughters of the American
Revolution. She is now a resident of Point Pleasant. She and W.H. Hogg had
four children: Dr. Robert M., who died in 1893, at the age of twenty-eight;
Ora, who is now Mrs. William Henderson Vaught, of Point Pleasant, is
present state regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a
member of the Society of Colonial Dames; Byron Hogg, who died in 1893, at
the age of twenty-two, while in his senior year in medical college; and Gory.

        Doctor Gary Hogg was born at Point Pleasant June 29, 1873, and was
educated in public schools and at West Virginia University. Taking his M.
D. degree at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore in 1895,
in the same year he located at Harvey, where he has been constantly in
practice. Doctor Hogg is a director of the New River Banking & Trust
Company of Thurmond, a director of the Scotia Coal & Coke Company, director
of the South Side Coal Company.

        Doctor Hogg in 1912 was elected a member of the State Senate from
the Ninth District, serving four years. During the World war he was
chairman of the Local Draft Board, was chairman of the southern section of
the State of West Virginia for the American Protective league, and devoted
much of his time to the Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives. He served in all
these capacities without pay, and one of the tokens of recognition of his
patriotic service was a personal letter of thanks from President Wilson.
Doctor Hogg is a member of the Civil Legion in recognition of honorable and
loyal service to the United States of America during the World war. For a
number of years he has been local surgeon for the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railway. He is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite
Mason and a past potentate and present imperial representative of Beni
Kedem Temple of Mystic Shrine at Charleston. He belongs to the Edgewood
County Club of Charleston, the Guyandotte Country Club of Huntington, and
is vice president of the White Oak Country Club. He is a member of the Phi
Sigma Kappa college fraternity, the Business Men's Club of Mount Hope. A
Democratic, he has been recognized as a leader in the party. He was reared
in the Presbyterian faith.

        Doctor Hogg married at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 9, 1903, Miss
Caroline James Butterfield, only daughter of Alden Pease and Caroline Ida
(Baldridge) Butterfield. She and both her parents were born in Cincinnati.
Benjamin Butterfield, a native of Kent County, England, came to America in
1630, and was in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1638. Her
great-grandfather, John Butterfield, married Sybil Willard, a descendant of
Major Simon Willard, who immigrated to America in 1634 and was the first
military commander of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and was the ranking
officer of the Colonies at that time. In the Baldridge line she is a
descendant of William Baldridge, who married Janet or Jeanette Holmes of
Belfast, Ireland. They came to America in the very early part of 1700,
settling in what is now Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In 1764, the Baldridge
family moved to North Carolina. William Baldridge (II), a grandson of the
first William, was born in 1763, served seven years in the American
Revolution. His father, Alexander, also rendered service with North
Carolina troops. He was graduated from Dickinson College of Pennsylvania in
1790, and became a minister of the Associated Reformed Church of
Pennsylvania. In 1798 he became pastor of the United Congregation of the
ForK of the James River in Rockridge County, Virginia. In 1809 he accepted
a call to a congregation in Adams County, Ohio, and was actively engaged in
the ministry until his death in 1830. His son, James Ramsey Baldridge, was
a stockholder and trustee of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company of
Cincinnati, Ohio, incorporated in 1834, and was a prominent business man of
Cincinnati. He and his wife, Sophia Bradford, were the great-grandparents
of Mrs. Hogg. Their son, David Agnew Baldridge, and Caroline James, were
her grandparents.

        Mrs. Hogg was educated at Bartholomew's English and Classical
School at Cincinnati. She has long been prominent in the work of patriotic
organizations, being a member of the National Societies: Daughters of
Barons of Runnemede, Colonial Dames of America, Daughters of American
Revolution, the Daughters of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, a life member of the American Red Cross, through Sophia
Bradford who is directly descended from Governor Bradford, who came on the
Mayflower. In Red Cross work she received a special Service Medal during
the World war. She has been state chairman of the Constitution Hall Finance
Committee of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution,
also serving on the national committee for five consecutive years. In 1925
she organized the Fayette Study Club of Fayette County, and has been
president from its organization. She is also state chairman of Citizenship
Training in the State Federation of Women's Clubs.

Transcribed by <AUPQ38A@prodigy.com> (MRS GINA M REASONER), 1999
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