Husband Dr. Solomon Fisher Hogue, A.M., M.E.D., Ph.D. 1 2
AKA: Solomon Fisher Hoge 3
Born: 1 Apr 1848 - Hoge's Mills, Greene Co, PA 2
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Father: Solomon Hoge (1803-1877/1878) 2 4
Mother: Rachel Huss ( - ) 2 4
Marriage: Jan 1886 5
Other Spouse: Marietta Bell ( -1874) 5 - 15 Oct 1874 5
Other Spouse: Emma J. Downey ( -1881) 5 - 25 May 1880 5
Other Spouse: Charity Anne Sterling (1851-1925) 1 5 6
Wife Lydia Lee Evans 5
AKA: Lydia A. Evans 7
Born: 14 Apr 1856 - Cochranton, Crawford Co, PA 5
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Died: Mar 1900 5
Buried: - Tidioute Cemetery, Tidioute, Deerfield Twp, Warren Co, PA
Father: Henry H. Evans (1828-Aft 1887) 5 7
Mother: Mary Kemble ( - ) 5 7
Children
1 M Frank William Evans Hogue 5
Born: 12 Dec 1886 5
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Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Walters ( - ) 5
General Notes: Husband - Dr. Solomon Fisher Hogue, A.M., M.E.D., Ph.D.
He was offered unusually rich educational opportunities, and he completed his public school course in Morgan Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, in his sixteenth year. He attended Waynesburg College, 1865-67; Edinboro (Pennsylvania) State Normal School, 1870-72, graduating from that school; Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1872-75, receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, pro merito. In 1876 he received a Normal diploma from Edinboro State Normal School, and in 1883 the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Waynesburg College.
Dr. Hogue began his professional career as a teacher in the public schools of Greene County, Pennsylvania, his service there continuing through 1867-68-69. Teaching and executive work in connection with schools he then adopted as his profession, and he attained unusual fame for his constructive work. He was elected county superintendent of public schools for Greene County in 1878 and served one term. He was principal of the schools of Tidioute, Pennsylvania, 1881-85; professor of Latin and higher mathematics at Edinboro State Normal School, 1885-86. The following year he officiated as president of Defiance College, Ohio, and the subsequent two years he was superintendent of teacher training and a teacher of psychology in the California (Pennsylvania) State Normal School. He officiated, 1890-96, as president of Monongahela College, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, leaving there to become principal of Rose Point Academy, thence to the presidency of Hall Institute, Sharon, Pennsylvania. He next occupied the chair of sciences in the Clarion (Pennsylvania) State Normal School. Then entering business life, at his wife's death he was engaged in the life insurance business for three years, 1900-03, after which he organized the Masontown National Bank, and served as its cashier for three years. One of Mr. Hogue's most interesting achievements was the establishment of vocational training in the Tidioute schools, which spread throughout the State of Pennsylvania and the United States. The beginning was informal, sponsored unofficially by the School Board, and it seized upon the interest of the pupils and patrons like magic, leading to a fully-equipped tool shop for the boys and to domestic science equipment for the girls. Dr. Hogue was requested to describe the whole plan before the State Teachers' Association gathered at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Another piece of constructive work on his part was the development of the grading of district, union and borough schools by scholarship instead of age in Greene County, which was adopted by city schools, finally was made a provision of Pennsylvania State law, and eventually was adopted throughout the United States. The first class graduated under the new plan was in 1876 at Waynesburg.
Dr. Hogue was always a zealous worker in the cause of temperance, and when county superintendent of public schools he used the phrase "of good moral character" to further the habit of temperance among applicants for teaching positions, resulting in Greene County going dry. He held meetings and cooperated with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union at Tidioute, and, by their combined efforts, the vicinity became "dry." Dr. Hogue was secretary of the Pennsylvania State Teachers' Association, 1886-87. He held a life membership in the National Education Association. He was affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons. During the Civil War, as head of a large drum corps, he led in drumming up volunteers and money. He played the part of a loyal citizen in the Spanish-American and World wars by buying bonds, etc., and lending his influence wherever it might prove effective. Dr. Hogue and his family were members of the First Presbyterian Church at Greensburg, and he was teacher of the adult ladies' class in the Sunday School.
General Notes: Wife - Lydia Lee Evans
When she was eight years old, her father sold his farm and quit his trade as a cabinet-maker, and moved to Tidioute, Pennsylvania, to engage in the mercantile business and in oil speculation. He prospered greatly, and his daughter was taught in private schools by the best of teachers. At eleven years of age she was sent to Chamberlain Institute, Cattaraugus County, New York, where she graduated in the gymnastic course at the age of thirteen and devoted her time thereafter to piano music and courses in science and literature. Since the main hall of the Institute burned while the little girl was at home on vacation, she and her sister were entered at the Pennsylvania State Normal School, at Edinboro, Pennsylvania, from which she graduated in 1875, at the age of nineteen.
She began her professional career in 1875 as a teacher in Grandintown, Warren County, Pennsylvania. The next year a call came to her from the high school of Tidioute, where she taught for eight years so successfully that in 1885 she was elected preceptress of the high school of Oil City, Pennsylvania. After her marriage in 1886, she continued her educational work, supplementing her inborn aptitude, wide experience, and broad culture with all the progressive activities of her husband. She taught at Defiance College, where Dr. Hogue was president, and when the finances of the college became too crippled for good work, went with him to the State Normal School in California, Pennsylvania, where both gained fame in the educational world. In 1888 and 1889 she and her husband laid the foundation of Redstone Academy in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. In 1890 Dr. Hogue accepted the position of president of Monongahela College, at Jefferson, Pennsylvania, where Mrs. Hogue ably seconded his efforts as preceptress, and where the two left the imprint of their vigorous measures for the betterment of the administration and curriculum when they left the college in 1896. Dr. Hogue was then principal of Rose Point Academy, then president of Hall Institute, and finally he occupied the chair of sciences in the Clarion (Pennsylvania) State Normal School. Throughout these years Mrs. Hogue assisted him. In her spare time she wrote for educational journals, articles which brought much favorable comment, and she prepared a text-book on calisthenics and gymnastics. She pursued her studies, graduating in the first class of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, in 1882, and attending lectures, studying in the School of Languages, and afterward in the College of Liberal Arts, at Chautauqua, for a number of years. She was awarded with the B.E.D., M.E.D., and A.M. She died in March, 1900, and was interred in her father's lot in the Tidioute Cemetery.