Biography of Frank Hogue, pages 556/557/558.  History of DeKalb County, 
Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914.



Frank Hogue

It is always pleasant and profitable to contemplate the career of a man 
who has made a success of life and won the honor and respect of his 
fellow citizens. Such is the record of the well-known gentleman whose 
name appears at the head of this paragraph, then whom a more whole-
souled or popular man it would be hard to find in the city where he has 
resided during the major portion of his life.  Steady persistence, 
stern integrity and excellent judgement have been the elements which 
have contributed to his success, and because of this success and his 
high personal character he is deserving of the high position which he 
holds in the esteem of all who know him. Frank Hogue, who for a number 
of years has been the efficient lumber buyer for Hoffman Brothers  
Company, of Fort Wayne, is a native son of DeKalb county, having first 
seen the light of day in Butler township on June 11, 1852. He is the 
son of Henry and Effie (King) Hogue, the former of whom died on August 
5, 1872. Henry Hogue was the son of George and Lydia (Wilder) Hogue, 
and was born in Canandaigua, New York, on March 5, 1818.  When about 
twenty years old he came to DeKalb county, Indiana, his mother having 
died a short time before that, and here he was employed in sawmills, 
work to which he had been accustomed in his native state.  He bought a 
farm in Butler township and there made his permanent home, his father 
also spending his last years there.  Carrying on the dual occupations 
of farming and lumbering, Henry Hogue was a very busy man, and he 
enjoyed the respect and confidence of all who knew him.  He was a 
Republican in politics, though with no aspirations, for public office.  
He married Effie King, who was born in Pennsylvania on November, 26, 
1828, and who is till, at the advanced age of eighty-eight years, a 
well-preserved woman, retaining her mental and physical faculties to a 
remarkable degree.  She is the daughter of George and Mary Jane 
(Phillips) King, and she was brought to DeKalb county on October 4, 
1835.  Her father was killed when she was but three days old, and she 
was reared by her mother until seven years old, after which time she 
was reared in the family of George DeLong, with whom she came to 
Indiana, the family locating in Butler township, DeKalb county.  Their 
long and tiresome journey was made in a wagon, drawn by two yoke of 
oxen, who pulled them from Dayton, Ohio. They had come from 
Pennsylvania down the Ohio river to Cincinnati, and thence by canal to 
Dayton. It took them six weeks to make the trip from Dayton, camping 
out at night and letting the oxen graze. They came by way of Fort 
Wayne, thence through Huntertown, which then consisted of but three or 
four houses.  But few roads had been constructed, and those few very 
poorly made, while most of the streams had to be forded.  On 
approaching their land in Butler township, none of which had been 
cleared, they were compelled to cut the dense undergrowth and many 
trees in order to get their wagon through to the site of their future 
home. Mr. DeLong went energetically to work to clear a spot for a home.  
They first lived in a tent made of carpet. But soon a log cabin was 
erected, in which the family, were comfortably houses. Here Mr. DeLong 
acquired ownership of three hundred and fifty acres of land.  A few 
years later he sold out and moved to Allen county. Mr. and Mrs. Hogue 
had been married just prior to that event and they remained on the 
farm, Mr. Hogue being employed to run the saw-mill for the new owner.  
They then moved to the farm adjoining on the north, which Mr. Hogue had 
bought, and there he spent the remainder of his life. To him and his 
wife were born ten children, namely: George Henry, Lydia A., Frank, 
Effie, Theron, Frederick, Perry, James, Florence and Mary, the latter 
dying at the age of three months.  Of these children, only three are 
now living, namely Frank, the immediate subject of this sketch; Lydia 
of Auburn, Florence, the wife of William Hoff, of Selma, California.  
The mother of these children now makes her home with her son Frank. 
Frank Hogue was reared on the home farm in Butler township and secured 
his education in the common schools.  In 1873 he went West, where he 
remained three years, and then, in 1876, he returned to the home farm, 
to the operation of which he gave his attention for a time. He then 
accepted a position with Hoffman Brothers, of Fort Wayne, extensive 
limber dealers and saw-mill men, and he has been connected with that 
company ever since.  For thirty-five years he has been the timber buyer 
for this well-known firm, his duties requiring him to travel over 
practically the entire country.  He has earned the reputation as one of 
the best judges of timber in the country and his services are held high 
in value by the firm with which he is connected.  Mr. Hogue has 
continued to reside in Auburn, and has a beautiful home at the corner 
of Fifth and Main streets, which he built in 1909.  In 1884 Mr. Hogue 
married Allie Rainsburg, of Pleasant Lake, Indiana, the daughter of 
Frederick Rainsburg, of Hudson, Indiana.  Mrs. Hogue died in 1891, and 
in 1898 Mr. Hogue married Carrie Caswell, of Fremont, this state, to 
which union was born a daughter, Frances. They are well known 
throughout this community, and their friends are in number as their 
acquaintances.



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