Hogsett- John
Source: Unknown but imagine Beckwith, HW. History of Montgomery County, Indiana
John W. HOGSETT, physician, Mace, was born November 8, 1835,
in Augusta County, Virginia, and is a son of John and Polly
Hogsett, both natives of the same County. His father was captain
in the home militia, and fought in the War of 1812. He died in
1857, quite aged. The mother of the doctor was an estimable lady,
and, with her husband, was a member of the Presbyterian Church.
She is now living in Monroe County, Virginia. Mr. Hogsett lived
with his parents, in Monroe County, Virginia, from two years old
till eighteen, when he left home to do for himself. He learned
the carpenter's trade, which he followed near home three years,
then moved to Iowa in December 1856, where he followed the same
occupation. In the times of the panic in 1857 work was scarce, so
he improved the time attending school in Williamsburg, Iowa,
where he pursued the higher branches of common school studies. In
the winter of 1859 he taught, then went to Council Bluffs, and
next to Rock Island, and in the spring of 1860 worked for his
brother, in Ford County, Illinois. Early in the fall of 1860 he
came to Crawfordsville and started to walk to Indianapolis.
Arriving at Fredericksburg, or Mace, and being pleased with the
stir and business of the place, he determined to remain here. He
taught two terms of school in Walnut township. In the spring of
1861, at the first call for volunteers to put down secession, Mr.
Hogsett enlisted in Co. G, l0th Ind. Inf., under CoI. M. D.
Manson, for three months. During this time he fought at Rich
Mountain. Returning he reenlisted in Co. B, l0th Ind. A few of
the engagements in which he took part are Mill Springs, where he
received three slight wounds from a volley fired into the
company. On his way to Nashville he was taken ill and was sent
into the barracks, then put in charge of detail to be returned to
Louisville. Here he procured a two months' furlough. He returned
at the proper time to his regiment at Corinth, and was employed
in guarding the road from Courtland to Decatur, and experienced
several skirmishes. He was wounded at Chickamauga, on the
shoulder and breast, by spent balls. He was on the Charleston
campaign, at Mission Ridge, and several minor battles around
Marietta, Tennessee. He was finally discharged at Indianapolis,
and returned to Mace where he began the study of medicine with
Dr. Samuel Irwin. He read till the following October, then
entered Rush Medical College, Chicago. In the following year he
settled for the practice at Jacksonville, Fountain County,
Indiana, and at the close of two years came to Mace and was
sometime associated with Dr. Irwin. He completed his medical
course at the Indiana State Medical College at Indianapolis,
February 26, 1875. He was married February 17, 1869, to Rebecca
A. POGUE, daughter of Silas and Betsy Pogue, old settlers of
Walnut township. They have four children: Ada M., Casper W., and
Daisy E. and Sherman. Mrs. Hogsett is a member of the
Presbyterian Church, while the doctor is a Methodist. He is a
Mason and a republican.