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term he secured the passage of the desired law
and appointed a commission under the influen-
tial leadership of Reagan, who had resigned from
the Senate to give weight to the experiment
Two years later, in spite of bitter opposition
which destroyed the traditional unity of the
Democratic party, Hogg was successful in his
campaign for reelection. In 1894 he had the sat-
isfaction of having his favorite measure declared
constitutional by the Supreme Court. Among
other measures passed through his influence were
a stock-and-bond law, intended to check the issue
of securities beyond the value of corporate prop-
erty, a municipal-bond law to limit the extrava-
gant expenditures of cities, and a law to prevent
the creation of great land-holding corporations.
Hogg retired from active politics in 1895. At
this time, according to his own statement, he
was a poor man with "only fifty dollars in cash,"
and he desired to earn a competence for himself
and his family. At the time of his death in 1906,
partly through his law practice and partly
through the fortunate discovery of oil on lands
which belonged to him, he was the master of a
substantial fortune. His wife died in 1895. He
was survived by three sons and one daughter.
In national affairs, he was a critic of Cleveland,
a close friend of Bryan, and, though a Democrat,
an admirer of Roosevelt.

[See Speeches and State Papers of James Stephen
Hogg (1905), ed. by C. W. Raines, with a biographical
sketch ; L. E. Daniell, Personnel of the Texas State
Govt. (1892) ; F. W. Johnson, E. C Barker, E. W.
Winkler, A Hist, of Texas and Texans (1914), I, 60 1
ff. ; Houston Daily Post, Mar. 4, 1906. Abundant ma-
terials are scattered through the newspapers of the day.
Hogg's public papers are in the Texas State Library at
Austin and his private papers in the possession of the
family in Houston.]

HOGUE, WILSON THOMAS (Mar. 6,
i8s2-Feb. 13, 1920), clergyman of the Free
Methodist Church, educator, author, was born
in Lyndon, N. Y., and was a son of Thomas P.
Hogg, a native of Scotland, and Sarah Ann Car-
penter. The family name was afterward changed
to Hogue. Wilson's boyhood was spent at the
district school and in labor on his father's farm.
At eighteen he entered the Ten Broeck Free
Academy at Franklinville, N. Y., where he took
the classical preparatory course, earning his way
by book canvassing and by teaching country
schools one term each year. He was unable to
go to college, but later, in the midst of the activi-
ties of middle life, pursued non-resident courses
in the Illinois Wesleyan University and received
the degrees of Ph.B. in 1897, A.M. in 1899, and
Ph.D. in 1902. Influenced by the atmosphere of
his Methodist home, his thoughts were early
turned toward the ministry, and during his days

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at the academy he began theological reading. In
1873 he united with the Genesee Conference of
the Free Methodist Church and commenced the
work of the pastor at Jamestown, N. Y. On Dec.
29, of the following year, he married Emma
Luella Jones of that town. Having completed
the course of study prescribed by the Conference,
he was ordained elder in 1877 and for the next
fifteen years held important charges in New
York State, nine of these years being spent in
Buffalo. From 1892 to 1904 he was president
of Greenville College, Greenville, 111., the only
college of his denomination. During his presi-
dency he held the office of general superinten-
dent, or bishop, of the Free Methodist Church
for one year, 1893-94, and was from 1894 to 1903
editor of the Free Methodist. Under his man-
agement it had a broad, scholarly, and dignified
character. He was again elected bishop in 1903
and continued in this office till 1919. He was
also editor of the Earnest Christian, 1908-09.

His first book, Handbook of Homiletics and
Pastoral Theology (1887), an outgrowth of his
ministerial experience, became widely used as a
textbook in his own and in other denominations.
He subsequently published Revivals and Revival
Work (1904); Hymns That Are Immortal
(1906), and The Class Meeting as a Means of
Grace (1907). His last work of importance,
written after he was partially disabled by paraly-
sis, was a History of the Free Methodist Church
of North America (2 vols., 1915). He was the
chief promoter of the Free Methodist Publishing
House, and from boyhood was a contributor to
the various publications of the denomination,
nearly all of which were at various times under
his supervision. He had a strong personality
and a Scotch tenacity of conviction coupled with
marked openness of mind. His ability as an ad-
ministrator, his skill as a parliamentarian, and
his exceptional capacity for work made him well
adapted for the functions of denominational lead-
ership, which were continued even during his
latter days of partial physical disability. His
wife and three daughters survived him.

[The ///. Wesleyan Mag. for July 1897 contains a
good account of his earlier years and public life to that
date, and the Hogue memorial number of the Free Meth-
odist, Mar. 23, 1920, contains a portrait and apprecia-
tions and estimates from fifty contributors. See also
Who's Who in America, 1918*19.] F.T.P.

HOGUN, JAMES (d. Jan. 4, 1781), Revolu-
tionary soldier, a native of Ireland, settled about
1751 in Halifax County, N. C. In 1774 he
was a member of the Halifax County Safety
Committee. He represented that county in the
provincial congresses of Aug. 20, 1775, Apr. 4,
1776, and Nov. 12,1776, his interest being chiefly

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