Hogan August 1830, his health impaired by the expo- sures incident to his work, he gave up the min- istry. He then became a dealer in general mer- chandise at Edwardsville, 111., as partner to his brother-in-law, Edward M. West. They after- wards moved to Alton, establishing there a wholesale grocery. In 1835 Hogan became the president of the Alton branch of the State Bank of Illinois. The following year he was elected to the Illinois legislature from Madison County on the Whig ticket and in 1838 was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress from the southern dis- trict of Illinois. Subsequently President Har- rison appointed him land commissioner for that state, in which office he served from 1841 to 1844. The year following he removed to St. Louis, entering the grocery house of Edward J. Gay as a partner. In 1853 he was made vice president of the Missouri State Mutual Fire and Marine Insurance Company and in 1854 organ- ized the Dollar Savings Institution. Hogan became conspicuous in 1853 by reason of a series of articles published in the Missouri Republican, in which he set forth the natural ad- vantages of St. Louis. These articles became so popular that they were subsequently published in book form under the title, Thoughts About the City of St. Louis (1854), and circulated in Ger- many and Ireland. The result was a great and continuous German and Irish immigration to that city. Hogan was also the author of "His- tory of Methodism in the West," published in the Christian Advocate (St Louis) in 1860. He again entered politics in 1854, when he was de- feated for mayor in a close vote. In 1857 he was appointed postmaster of St. Louis by President Buchanan. During his term of office the build- ing at Third and Olive Streets was erected, and the Civil War began. When Hogan was notified that the government was short of funds and that no appropriation would be made for paying the salaries of his men, he paid them from his own private funds. Ever afterwards he was known as "Honest John Hogan." In 1860 he was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Charleston, S. C. He was the first to bring to President Lincoln's attention, in a letter of re- monstrance, Secretary Stanton's order of Nov. 30, 1863, instructing the generals commanding the departments of Missouri, Tennessee, and the Gulf to turn over to Bishop E. R. Ames [#.v.], of the Methodist Church, North, all churches in their departments belonging to the Methodist Church, South, in which loyal ministers appoint- ed by a loyal bishop did not officiate. On Feb. 13, 1864, Lincoln wrote Hogan, informing him jhat the War Department had jnpdified the order Hoge and that it would not include Missouri. Hogan was elected to Congress in 1864, where he was known as a friend of the waterways. He married in 1830 Mary Mitchell West. They had five children, of whom two survived infancy. After her death in 1845, he married, May 18, 1847, Harriet Garnier, grand-daughter of Auguste Conde, a French army surgeon sta- tioned at St. Louis. Four children were born of this marriage. [Sophia H. Boogher, Recollections of John Hogan by His Daughter (1927) ; William Hyde and H. L. Conard, Encyc. of the Hist, of St. Louis , vol. II (1899) ; W. B. Stevens, St. Louis, the Fourth City, 1764-1911, vol. II (1911) ; War of the Rebellion: Official Records (Army}, vol. XXXIV, pt. 2, vol. XLI, pt. 3 ; Edward McPherson, The Political Hist, of the U. S. A. During the Great Rebellion (and ed., 1865) ; T. M. Finney, The Life and Labors of Enoch Mather Marvin (1880), 544 ff. ; W. W. Sweet, The M. E. Ch. and the Civi (1912) ; St. Louis Republic, Feb. 6, 1 892.] g§ ar HOGE, MOSES (Feb. 15, 1752-July 5, 1820), Presbyterian clergyman, educator, was born at Cedargrove, Frederick County, Va., the son of James Hoge and his second wife, Nancy Grif- fiths. James Hoge was a man of robust intellect and a self-taught theologian, adhering strictly to the Westminster Confession. About the close of the seventeenth century his father, William, had emigrated to America on account of the religious persecutions under the Stuarts, and had married Barbara Hume, who had come over in the same ship and for the same reason. They settled first in New Jersey, moved into Delaware, and thence into the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania where their children were born. About 1735, the family removed to Frederick County, Va. Here William gave land for a church, a school, and burying ground. Moses Hoge was sent to Liberty Hall Academy, which later developed into Washington College, now Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., then under the charge of William Graham. A year as a volun- teer in the War of the Revolution interrupted his studies. After his academic training he studied under Dr. Graham and also under James Wad- dell [q.v.] in preparation for the ministry. He was licensed to preach by the Hanover Presby- tery in November 1781, and on Dec. 13, 1782, was ordained at Augusta, in what is now Hamp- shire County, W. Va. In this county he spent five years in missionary work, and for twenty years he was pastor at Shepherdstown, Jeffer- son County. In April 1806 the Presbytery of Hanover had decided to establish at Hampden- Sydney College a complete theological library for the benefit of students in divinity, and to em- ploy a teacher, or teachers. Under the joint ac- tion of the Presbytery of Ha&pv$r and the bpar