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Descendants of JOHN SCHOFIELD
Generation No. 1
1. JOHN1 SCHOFIELD was born 26 Jun 1669 in Brighouse, York, England, and
died 1760. He married (1) RACHEL NEILL. He married (2) ANN LENWIRE 04 Apr
1724 in Falls M.H. Bucks Co. PA.
Notes for JOHN SCHOFIELD:
He came from Brighouse, England, and presented his certificate at the Friends
Fall MM (Fallington, Bucks Co., PA) in 1718. The certificate was dated Dec.
28, 1717, in Brighouse. Therefore, it can be presumed that he emigrated in
early 1718.
Apparently John Jr.'s mother died and the marriage of John, Sr. in 1724 to
Ann Lenwire was a second marriage.
Notes for RACHEL NEILL:
Probably died in childbirth, judging from the date of John's first child and
his marriage to his second wife.
Child of JOHN SCHOFIELD and RACHEL NEILL is:
2. i. JOHN2 SCOFIELD, JR., b. 1722, Falls Township PA; d. 1795, Sandy Spring
MD (Prince George's Co).
Children of JOHN SCHOFIELD and ANN LENWIRE are:
ii. JANE2 SCOFIELD, b. 1726.
iii. ISAAC SCOFIELD, b. 1728.
iv. DAVID SCOFIELD, b. 1730; d. DIED IN 3RD MONTH.
v. THOMAS SCOFIELD, b. 1732.
vi. SAMUAL SCOFIELD, b. 1734.
vii. DAVID SCOFIELD, b. 1736, At Deer Creek.
viii. PHOEBE SCOFIELD, b. 1739.
ix. JONATHAN SCOFIELD, b. 1742.
Generation No. 2
2. JOHN2 SCOFIELD, JR. (JOHN1 SCHOFIELD) was born
1722 in Falls Township PA, and died 1795 in Sandy Spring MD (Prince George's
Co). He married RACHEL MARSHALL, daughter of LEWIS NEILL. She died Aft. 1795.
Notes for JOHN SCOFIELD, JR.:
John Jr. moved to Gunpowder MM out of Baltimore by 1759, by 1771 he was in
Frederick County, MD., later when Montgomery County was formed, he was there.
By 1789 he was in Prince George's County. He died here in 1795; His wife,
Rachel was his executor along with two sons.
Scofield (Scholfield, Schoolfield)
Spelling according to William Wade hinshaw, "Encyclopedia of American
Quaker Genealogies," reprinted 1973, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore
MD, p. 1044, v. 6
John Scholfield m. Rachel ____, belonged Indian Spring MM, Prince George's
Co. MD
John Schofield was born in Falls Township PA. He testified in the Census of
1776 that he was age 55. By 1759 he is found in Gunpowder MM near Baltimore
MD. In 1771 he resided in Frederick Co. MD, and soon after in Montgomery County,
at time of its formation.
In 1782 he bought twelve acres whereon Adelphi
Mill stands, where his sons helped him mill. About 1784 John sold the mill
to sons Issachar and Mahlon and removed to Prince George's County in 1789,
where he lived at the time of his death. He belonged to Indian Spring MM.
Children of JOHN SCOFIELD and RACHEL MARSHALL are:
i. WILLIAM3 SCOFIELD, b. 14 Dec 1752; d. 1784.
ii. ANN SCOFIELD, b. 02 Jun 1757.
iii. ANDREW SCOFIELD, b. 10 Aug 1760; d. Oct 1839, Alexandria VA.
iv. JOSEPH SCOFIELD, b. 11 Sep 1762.
v. ISSACHAR SCOFIELD, b. 17 Jun 1765.
3. vi. MAHLON SCOFIELD, b. 02 Oct 1769, Baltimore Co MD; d. 28 May 1854, Lincoln
VA.
Generation No. 3
3. MAHLON3 SCOFIELD (JOHN2, JOHN1 SCHOFIELD) was
born 02 Oct 1769 in Baltimore Co MD, and died 28 May 1854 in Lincoln VA (Source:
"Loudoun County VA Cemeteries", pub. by Library of Lovettsville
VA 1995, pp 143,275). He married ANN NEILL 05 Mar 1807 in Hopewell M.H. Frederick
Co. VA, daughter of LEWIS NEILL and RACHEL JANNEY. She was born 24 Oct 1781,
and died 15 May 1847 in Hopewell, Frederick Co, VA.
Notes for MAHLON SCOFIELD:
On Dec. 28, 1799, was granted certificate to change to Fairfax VA MM; transferred
in 1802 to Alexandria MM as charter member Granted certificate 26 Feb. 1807
to Hopewell MM to marry Ann Neill (d. 1886), daughter of Lewis and Rachel
Neill of Frederick Co. VA. Married May 3, 1807. Buried Goose Creek Cemetery.
[Authority Hinshaw, op cit, p. 776]
Source "Hopewell Friends History" p.332
Scholfield-Neill
Mahlon Scholfield, of the town of Alexandria in the District of Columbia,
son of John Scholfield deceased and Rachel Scholfield of Prince George's County
in Maryland, and Ann Neill, daughter of Lewis and Rachel Neill of Frederic
County in Virginia; 5th day of 3rd month, 1807; at Hopewell
Mahlon Schofield
Born in Baltimore Co MD, Mahlon inherited part of Adelphi Mill from his brother
William and bought another share from his father in about 1784. He apparently
found that operating the mill was not profitable venture, for on Dec. 28,
1799, he was granterd a certificate to remove to Fairfax VA MM. he moved again
in 1802 to Alexandria MM, as a charter member. Yet this was not his last move.
On February 26, 1807, he was granted a certificate
to Hopewell MM in Frederick Co. VA, to marry Ann Neill, to whom he was married
Mch 5, 1807. she was the daughter of lewis Neill and Rachel (Janney) of Hopewell.
They and all their children were members of Hopewell in 1824, but in 1830
were disowned for changing over to the Orthodox Meeting at Hopewell.
He was buried in Goose Creek Cemetery, as was
Ann, on October 20, 1886, two years after her husband.
Ref. for burial: Loudoun County VA Cemeteries, Lovettsville VA Library, 1995,
pp.143,275
*Note: We have Mahlon's death on May 28, 1854
and Ann's on May 15, 1847 which seems to be more likely
Children of MAHLON SCOFIELD and ANN NEILL are:
4. i. RACHEL NEILL4 SCOFIELD, b. 09 Aug 1813, Alexandria VA; d. 17 Nov 1874,
Bur: ae 61 in Lincoln, Loudoun Co, VA, Goose Creek Cem..
ii. LEWIS SCOFIELD.
5. iii. ELIZABETH SCOFIELD, b. Bef. 1813.
iv. ANN SCOFIELD.
v. JOSEPH SCOFIELD.
vi. WILLIAM SCOFIELD.
Generation No. 4
4. RACHEL NEILL4 SCOFIELD (MAHLON3, JOHN2, JOHN1
SCHOFIELD) was born 09 Aug 1813 in Alexandria VA (Source: "The Hoge,
Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement
of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview
Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969), and died 17 Nov 1874 in Bur: ae 61 in Lincoln,
Loudoun Co, VA, Goose Creek Cem.. She married ISAAC HOGE 14 Sep 1836 in Hopewell
MM near Clearbrook Frederick Co VA (Source: "Frederick Co. Marriages
1738-1850", By John Vogt, p. 136, Iberian Pub. Co., Athens GA, 1984 ),
son of JAMES HOGE and RACHEL NICHOLS. He was born 08 Feb 1814 in Hamilton,
VA (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical
- A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols,
4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969), and died 08 Dec
1851 in Pleasant Valley Farm near Hamilton, Loudoun Co., VA.
Notes for ISAAC HOGE:
Buried at Goose Creek Cemetery, Lincoln, Loudoun Co., VA (source: "The
Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential
Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park
Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969)
Married by clerk Robert Bond
Of Hopewell MM and Goose Creek, lived Pleasant
Valley Farm
In 1838 he purchased Pleasant Valley Farm where
he later died. He served as clerk of Hopewell MM (Orthodox) through Nov 1851,
at Goose Creek. He was registar of records at Hopewell MM 6/1/1836
Children of RACHEL SCOFIELD and ISAAC HOGE are:
i. ELIZABETH5 HOGE, b. 12 Jun 1837 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related
Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical
Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH
44126, Sept. 1969); d. Aft. 1885; m. OLIVER TAYLOR, 07 Mar 1868 (Source: "The
Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential
Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park
Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969).
Notes for ELIZABETH HOGE:
She entered Wasttown School, PA, May 1853. Address: Pleasant Valley, VA
source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical
- A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols,
4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969
6. ii. JAMES MAHLON HOGE, b. 15 Feb 1839; d. 17
Jul 1924.
7. iii. JOSEPHINE HOGE, b. 28 Jul 1841; d. 14 Oct 1870.
iv. HANNAH ANN HOGE, b. 29 May 1843 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related
Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical
Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH
44126, Sept. 1969 ); d. 01 Sep 1918; m. OWEN THOMAS HOLMES.
v. ISAAC CRAVEN HOGE, b. 16 Mar 1844, Pleasant Valley Farm near Hamilton,
Loudoun Co., VA (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical
- A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols,
4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969); d. 13 Sep 1893,
Overlea Farms; m. ELMA ROGERS HOLMES, 24 Oct 1867, Philadelphia, PA (Source:
"The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A
Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols,
4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969).
8. vi. LOUIS NEILL HOGE, b. 13 May 1845; d. 14 Oct 1915, bur in Zion Methodist
Church Cem., Spotsylvania, VA.
9. vii. WILLIAM SCOFIELD HOGE, b. 18 Feb 1847, Pleasent Valley Farm, near
Hamilton VA; d. 15 Aug 1920, Buck Hill Falls PA.
viii. MARGARETTA RACHEL HOGE, b. 15 Feb 1850; d. 1888.
ix. FREDERICA PHEBE HOGE, b. 17 Jul 1852; d. 1928.
Notes for FREDERICA PHEBE HOGE:
Married a mayor of Chicago? Source: Family notes, otherwise not referenced
5. ELIZABETH4 SCOFIELD (MAHLON3, JOHN2, JOHN1 SCHOFIELD) was born Bef. 1813.
She married JOSEPH JANNEY HOPKINS.
Children of ELIZABETH SCOFIELD and JOSEPH HOPKINS are:
10. i. LEWIS NEILL5 HOPKINS, b. 22 Jun 1834, Anne Arundel Co., MD; d. Aug
1904.
ii. JOHN HOPKINS.
Generation No. 5
6. JAMES MAHLON5 HOGE (RACHEL NEILL4 SCOFIELD,
MAHLON3, JOHN2, JOHN1 SCHOFIELD) was born 15 Feb 1839 (Source: "The Hoge,
Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement
of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview
Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969), and died 17 Jul 1924. He married JULIA NORMAN
BRANCH 12 Nov 1878 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families -
Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data",
by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept.
1969), daughter of DAVID BRANCH and SARAH HARRIS. She was born 30 Sep 1840
in Richmond, VA (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical
- A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols,
4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969 ), and died 10 Jun
1930 in Washington, D.C.
Notes for JAMES MAHLON HOGE:
Went in business with Brother William in D.C., with whom he bought "Washington
View".
Source: Family notes, otherwise not referenced
James entered Westtown School,PA, in Oct 1853: address Hamilton, VA. He was
graduated from Friends School, Providence, RI (now Moses Brown School) in
1859 in the third class. He was one of the first men graduated of that school.
He was a merchant at Hoods Mills, MD, 1863-1864, and at Hamilton, VA, in 1865,
where he served as Postmaster. He was one of the earliest members of the District
of Columbia chamber of Commerce. In 1885 he entered the commission business
in Washington, DC, with his brother under the firm name of W.S. Hoge and Bro.
He also traded as Hoge Grain and Feeds Co. and High Point Orchard Co. (on
Hogback Range of the Catoctin Mountains), east of "Overlea Farm"
and "Pleasant Valley Farm" in Loudoun Co., VA, where he maintained
his home. He served as Supervisor of Loudoun County and was a director of
Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Hamilton, VA, and District National
Bank. See Who's Who in the Nation's Capital, 1st Edition, 1921-22, p. 186-7.
He was a birthright member of the Hopewell MM, VA; 11/14/1885 he was granted
a certificate to Baltimore MM, and 6/9/1887 transferred to Lincoln MM, Lincoln,
VA. Friends east of the Blue Ridge Mountains (i.e. in Loudoun County) were
so transferred and became charter members at Lincoln MM when it was set up
28 Apr 1887 in Lincoln, VA. He was formerly a member of the orthodox Friends
Meeting at Lincoln which was discontinued during the war in 1861. (Source:
"The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A
Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols,
4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969)
Same source: James Hoge and Julia Norman Branch were married by her brother,
Rev. Henry Branch at his residence in hamilton, VA.
Children of JAMES HOGE and JULIA BRANCH are:
i. LEWIS CLARK6 HOGE, b. 27 Aug 1883 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and
Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical
Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH
44126, Sept. 1969); d. 27 Jun 1966; m. HARRIET HALLADAY.
Notes for LEWIS CLARK HOGE:
Lewis and his wife lived at "Opler" west of leesburg, VA., until
divorced in the early 1930's when she lived in Leesburg and he operated the
"Overlook Orchards" and "Red Apple Market" on the western
portion of "Opler" allotted to him. he was known as Arthur Godfrey's
"Old Man of the Mountain." (source: "The Hoge, Nichols and
Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical
Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH
44126, Sept. 1969)
ii. JULIA BRANCH HOGE, b. 04 Jan 1880 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and
Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical
Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH
44126, Sept. 1969); d. 16 Sep 1929.
7. JOSEPHINE5 HOGE (RACHEL NEILL4 SCOFIELD, MAHLON3, JOHN2, JOHN1 SCHOFIELD)
was born 28 Jul 1841 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families
- Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data",
by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept.
1969), and died 14 Oct 1870. She married LEWIS NEILL HOPKINS, son of JOSEPH
HOPKINS and ELIZABETH SCOFIELD. He was born 22 Jun 1834 in Anne Arundel Co.,
MD (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical
- A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols,
4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969), and died Aug 1904.
Notes for JOSEPHINE HOGE:
Married brother of Johns Hopkins. Source: Family notes, otherwise not referenced
Married Lewis Neill Hopkins, her first cousin.
Son of Joseph Janney Hopkins (elder brother of John Hopkins of the Hospital
and University in Baltimore) and Elizabeth Scofield (elder sister of Rachel
Neill Scofield who married Isaac Hoge.): Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and
Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical
Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH
44126, Sept. 1969
Notes for LEWIS NEILL HOPKINS:
He entered Harverford College, Spphomore class of 1849. He was Secretary,
Board of Trustees, John Hopkins University. He was mayor of Baltimore at one
time.
Child of JOSEPHINE HOGE and LEWIS HOPKINS is:
i. JOSEPHINE6 HOPKINS, d. 1883.
Notes for JOSEPHINE HOPKINS:
Died of typhoid fever at Providence Boarding School, RI, 1883 (source: "The
Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential
Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park
Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969)
8. LOUIS NEILL5 HOGE (RACHEL NEILL4 SCOFIELD,
MAHLON3, JOHN2, JOHN1 SCHOFIELD) was born 13 May 1845 (Source: "The Hoge,
Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement
of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview
Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969), and died 14 Oct 1915 in bur in Zion Methodist
Church Cem., Spotsylvania, VA. He married (1) RACHEL (MNU) HOGE. He married
(2) SUSANNA BOONE JOLLIFFE 07 Nov 1866 in Frederick Co, VA (Source: "The
Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential
Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park
Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969), daughter of JOSEPH JOLLIFFE and
SARAH JANNEY. She was born 04 Jul 1843 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and
Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical
Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH
44126, Sept. 1969), and died 10 Jan 1934 in bur in Zion Methodist Church Cem.,
Spotsylvania, VA.
Notes for LOUIS NEILL HOGE:
Married his cousin Rachel. Source: Family notes, otherwise not referenced
1886 removed from Hopewell Mm to New Garden MM,
NC; returned to Hopewell 1894; joined Methodists and removed from Frds rolls
1907
Children of LOUIS HOGE and SUSANNA JOLLIFFE are:
i. JAMES LAURENCE6 HOGE, b. 03 Nov 1868 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and
Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical
Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH
44126, Sept. 1969); d. 17 Mar 1950; m. CAROLINE HAZELTENE OWENS.
ii. SALLIE JOLLIFFE HOGE, b. 04 Jun 1870 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols
and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement
of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview
Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969).
iii. LOUIS NEILL HOGE, b. 09 Nov 1873 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and
Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical
Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH
44126, Sept. 1969).
iv. ELIZABETH SHARPLESS HOGE, b. 10 Mar 1878 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols
and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement
of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview
Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969).
9. WILLIAM SCOFIELD5 HOGE (RACHEL NEILL4 SCOFIELD, MAHLON3, JOHN2, JOHN1 SCHOFIELD)
was born 18 Feb 1847 in Pleasent Valley Farm, near Hamilton VA (Source: "The
Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential
Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park
Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969), and died 15 Aug 1920 in Buck
Hill Falls PA. He married MARY BARLOW STEARNS 28 Jan 1874 in Lincoln M.H.
VA (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical
- A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols,
4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969), daughter of JOHN
STEARNS and ANN LLOYD. She was born 27 Nov 1850 in Brooklyn NY (Source: "Genealogy
and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, "
by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen), and died 12 Jan 1925 in Elizabeth NJ.
Notes for WILLIAM SCOFIELD HOGE:
A wealthy merchant. Built an apartment house at 1402 15th Street Wash DC .
"Could see DuPont Circle from it".
On 18 May 1874 was condemned at Hopewell for marrying
out of unity; requested to be retained and allowed to remain. [Hinshaw, Quaker
Gen. v. 6:401,402]
He married Mary Barlow Stearns and died in 1920
(family genalogy)
The Janney Family came to Bucks Co. PA in 1683,
same year as William Hoge, Sr. Thomas Janney (bp 1634 d. 1697) bought 250
acres from Wm. Penn. (Janneys and Hoges intermarried, and James Janey was
a partner of Wm. S. Hoge in D.C. in 1873 - see below) Ref: History of Bucks
Co. PA 1975, pp 54-60, at Library of Congress.
Peabody Roon, Georgetown Public Library, R & Wisconsin Sts., D.C., Boyd's
Directories, D.C.
1870 - no entry for Hoge
1872 - no entry
1873 - William S. Hoge of Janney & Hoge, commission merchants and dealers
in flour, feed, and hay. James W. Janney is his partner. Place of business
is 460 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
1874 - Same as above. Hoge boards at Continental Hotel
1890 - no entry
1897 - William S. Hoge and James M. Hoge of Hoge & McDowell, produce &
commission merchants, feed, hay, grain, and all kinds of country produce.
Wm. S. Hoge, student. No listing for Philip
1906 - Wm. S. Hoge, Pres., James M. Hoge, manager, Hoge & McDowell co.
945 S. St. NW Hoge's residence: 1402 15th Street, NW
1910 W. S. Hoge, Pres., James M. Hoge of Hoge & McDowell, millers, wholesale
feed dealers & commission merchants. Philip B Hoge, civil engineer at
141 Q Street, house at 1402 15th Street.
1915 - Wm. S. Hoge, Pres. W. S. Hoge & Bro., commission merchants and
wholesale feed dealers at 915 Louisiana Ave., warehouse at 80 L Street. NE.
Wm S Hoge, Jr., secretary-treasurer Hoge Co. Barbara Hoge. Philip Hoge, civil
engineer at 1402 15th Street. live Wm. S. Hoge, Sr., and Philip.
1922 - James M. Hoge, Pres. WM S Hoge & Brothers, wholesale grain and
feed at 233 6th Street. SW, also at Alexandria.
1923 - same
The residence of Wm. Hoge Sr. was due west of
Opeckah Memorial Church, south of Winchester. House now gone, but site was
that of pritchard house, built 1850, extant 1863. Wm. Hoge's son Alexander,
besides being a member of the first U.S. Congress, was at the Virginia Convention
which adopted the first constitution. (Ref: "Shenandoah Valley Pioneers",
A History of Frederick Co. VA. by T.K. Cartnell, 1963, chesapeake Book co.
Berryville VA, pp. 411-412).
In 1744 William Hoge obtained a license to keep
an ordinary. (Ref: "History of Lower Shenandoah Valley," counties
Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson, and Clarke, ed. J.E. Norris, 1890, Virginia
Book co. Berryville VA p. 73.)
Owned grain & feed business in Washington DC from 1873-1920. [Boyd's City
Directories]. On May 18, 1874 he was condemned at Hopewell MH for marrying
out of unity, request to remain was allowed. (source: Encyclopedia of Quaker
Genealogy, wm Wade Hinshaw, 1950, Ann Arbor MI, v.6:401.653-4.] Removed to
Washington and established successful grain & feed business. Lived 1402-15th
Street NW. Son Philip related that William and bro. James hitchhiked to Providence
RI in order to attend Brown University. Source: Family notes, otherwise not
referenced.
Notes for MARY BARLOW STEARNS:
- May have been born Nov. 27, 1850
- Descendant of Richard Henry Lee of VA
- Member D.A.R. Chapter 202 "Mary Washington"
Ref. Lee of VA by E.J. Lee
___________________________
It is from Mary Stearns that the connection to the Lee's of Virginia comes.
Therefore the following are added here.
Copied from Richard Henry Lee's Family Bible.
Richard Henry Lee and Ann Aylett were married
December 3, 1757.
Thomas Lee, the son of Richard Henry Lee and Anne,
his wife, was born on Sunday the 20th day of October 1757 at 11 o'clock at
night and was christened by the Rev. Mr. Charks Rose the 26th day of November
1738. His sponsore were Alkinton, the honorable Col. Philip Ludwell Lee, Ganin
Covborn, Esq. Miss Alice Lee, Mrs. Alkenton and Miss Mary Aylett.
Ludwell Lee, son of R.H. Lee and Anne, his wife,
was born on Monday the 13th of October 176? at 12 o'clock in the night and
was christened by the Rev. M.C. Rose on Sunday the 26th of October 1760. His
proxies - Miss Richard Lee Esq., Doctor Arthur Lee and Miss Elizasbeth Steptor.
Mary Lee, daughter of Richard Henry Lee and Anne,
his wife, was born Saturday the 28th of July 1764 in the night. She was christened
by the Rev. Mr. Archibald Cambell March 11th, 1765 and her proxies were Frances
Lightfoot Lee Esq., Mr. Joseph Lane and James Davenport with Mrs Elizabeth
Steptor, Miss Betty Washington and Miss Booth.
Anne Lee, daughter of Richard Henry Lee and Anne,
his wife, was born the 1st day of December 1770 and was christened the 6th
of January 1771. Her sponsors were Frances Lightfoot Lee Esq., Dr. Steqtor,
Mrs. Richard Lee and Miss Sarah Gaskins. She was christened by Rev. Mr. Thomas
Smith.
Henrietta Lee, daughter of R. H. Lee and Anne,
his wife, was born the 10th day of December 1773 and was christened the ??
day of January 1774. Her sponsors were Capt. John Lee, Richard Lee, George
Lee, Frances Steptor Esqr., Miss Elizabeth Gaskins, Miss ??? Lee and Miss
Mary Lee.
Sarah Lee, daughter of Richard Henry Lee and Anne,
his wife, was born the 27th of November 1775 and was christened by the Rev.
Mr. Thomas Smith. Her proxies were Thomas Ludwell Lee, Henry Lee Esqrs., MIss
Elizabeth Lee, Miss Mary Lee, Miss Nancy Lee, Miss Hannah Lee.
Cassius Lee, son of Richard Henry Lee and Anne,
his wife, was born at 3 o'clock at night the 18 day of August 1779. Christened
October 10, 1779. Proxies the Rev. Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Armstead, Miss Alice Lee
of Maryland, Miss Nancy Lee of Chantilly and Miss Furann.
"May every Ceasar feel the keen deep searching of a Patriots Steel."
Frances Lightfoot Lee, son of R. H. Lee and Anne,
his wife, was born at 2 o'clock in the morning 1782. Was Christened by the
Rev. Mr. Wilson. His sponsors were Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Ludwell Lee, Mrs. Aylett
Lee, Miss Mary Lee, Miss Hannah Lee, Miss Flora Lee, Miss Lucinda Lee.
Page is so bad that nothing further could be
read.
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SOURCE: This letter was sent by Nan Hoge Savage to Philip B. Hoge (her brother)
in about 1965.
Our Grandmother and Your Great Grandmother was
the third Daughter of Richard Henry Lee and Anne his second wife -- she was
a widow Pinkard, a Miss Ann Gaskins her name number 1.
Sarah Lee, her child, born the 27th of November
1773 in Westmorland County. She married Edmund J. Lee, son of Henry Lee and
Lucy Greymer. Edmund J. Lee was the brother of Lighthorse "Harry Lee"
of Revolutionary War, who was the Father of General Robert E. Lee.
Anne Harriotte Lee, daughter of Edmund J. Lee and Sarah, his wife, was born
on Wednesday March 6th, 1799--Married John Lloyd November 2nd, 1822.
Two of Richard Henry Lee's daughters our Grandmothers.
Sisters married Washington's, Gen. Washington's, Nephews -- your Great Uncles
and Aunts.
Edmund Jennings Lee William Fitzbugh Lee
Anne Harrotte Lee Hannah Lee
Tallee Lee Charles Henry Lee
Capens Lee Richard Henry Lee
Ancestor: Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, ref:
Lee of VA, by E.J. Lee. Member D.A.R Chap 202, Mary Washington, Washington
D.C.
Children of WILLIAM HOGE and MARY STEARNS are:
11. i. ANNE STEARNS6 HOGE, b. 18 Sep 1875; d. 01 Jul 1957.
12. ii. RACHEL SCOFIELD HOGE, b. 27 Dec 1876; d. 02 Sep 1948, St. Paul MN.
13. iii. WILLIAM SCOFIELD HOGE,JR, b. 27 Mar 1879; d. 13 Sep 1954.
14. iv. PHILIP BARLOW HOGE, b. 10 Nov 1883, Washington DC; d. 23 Jun 1964,
South Kingston RI, - buried Jamestown RI.
15. v. MARY BARLOW HOGE, b. 24 Feb 1887.
16. vi. MARGARET LLOYD HOGE, b. 18 May 1889.
vii. BARBARA LOUISE HOGE, b. 16 Jan 1892; m. (1) LAWRENCE STICKNEY; d. 1922;
m. (2) HUGH BLAIR GRIGSBY GAULT.
10. LEWIS NEILL5 HOPKINS (ELIZABETH4 SCOFIELD, MAHLON3, JOHN2, JOHN1 SCHOFIELD)
was born 22 Jun 1834 in Anne Arundel Co., MD (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols
and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement
of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview
Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969), and died Aug 1904. He married JOSEPHINE HOGE,
daughter of ISAAC HOGE and RACHEL SCOFIELD. She was born 28 Jul 1841 (Source:
"The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A
Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols,
4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969), and died 14 Oct
1870.
Notes for LEWIS NEILL HOPKINS:
He entered Harverford College, Spphomore class of 1849. He was Secretary,
Board of Trustees, John Hopkins University. He was mayor of Baltimore at one
time.
Notes for JOSEPHINE HOGE:
Married brother of Johns Hopkins. Source: Family notes, otherwise not referenced
Married Lewis Neill Hopkins, her first cousin.
Son of Joseph Janney Hopkins (elder brother of John Hopkins of the Hospital
and University in Baltimore) and Elizabeth Scofield (elder sister of Rachel
Neill Scofield who married Isaac Hoge.): Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and
Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical
Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH
44126, Sept. 1969
Child is listed above under (7) JOSEPHINE HOGE.
Generation No. 6
11. ANNE STEARNS6 HOGE (WILLIAM SCOFIELD5, RACHEL
NEILL4 SCOFIELD, MAHLON3, JOHN2, JOHN1 SCHOFIELD) was born 18 Sep 1875 (Source:
"The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A
Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols,
4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969), and died 01 Jul
1957. She married FREDERICK ADAMS SAVAGE. He was born 1870.
Children of ANNE HOGE and FREDERICK SAVAGE are:
i. DOROTHY7 SAVAGE, m. CHARLES FOLGER OUDIN.
ii. FREDERICK ADAMS SAVAGE, JR.
12. RACHEL SCOFIELD6 HOGE (WILLIAM SCOFIELD5, RACHEL NEILL4 SCOFIELD, MAHLON3,
JOHN2, JOHN1 SCHOFIELD) was born 27 Dec 1876 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols
and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement
of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview
Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969), and died 02 Sep 1948 in St. Paul MN. She married
FRANCIS JOSEPH SAVAGE 16 Feb 1904 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related
Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical
Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH
44126, Sept. 1969). He was born 1875 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and
Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical
Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH
44126, Sept. 1969), and died 16 Jan 1959.
Notes for FRANCIS JOSEPH SAVAGE:
Doctor
Children of RACHEL HOGE and FRANCIS SAVAGE are:
i. ANNE LLOYD7 SAVAGE, b. 17 Feb 1912 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and
Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical
Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH
44126, Sept. 1969); m. (FNU) PETITT.
ii. BARBARA SAVAGE.
13. WILLIAM SCOFIELD6 HOGE,JR (WILLIAM SCOFIELD5, RACHEL NEILL4 SCOFIELD,
MAHLON3, JOHN2, JOHN1 SCHOFIELD) was born 27 Mar 1879 (Source: "The Hoge,
Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement
of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview
Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969), and died 13 Sep 1954. He married ELIZABETH HIDEN
18 Oct 1904 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical
- A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols,
4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969). She was born 22
May 1878 in Orange Co Va (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families
- Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data",
by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept.
1969), and died 30 Jan 1966 in Tacoma Park, MD.
Notes for WILLIAM SCOFIELD HOGE,JR:
Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical
- A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols,
4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969
William Scofield Hoge, Jr., was a pioneer developer of Arlington Co. real
estate, a native of Washington, Mr. Hoge for a number of years prior to his
association with the real estate business that bears his name, operated a
grain and feed business begun in Washington by his father and uncle, James
Mahlon Hoge. At the time of his death, he was associated with his son W. S.
Hoge III, president of the Arlington Real Estate Board, in a real estate office
at 2206 Wilson Blvd. A deeply religious man, Mr. Hoge was closely identified
with Baptist Church activities throughout VA. He was a trustee of Arlington
Columbia Baptist Church, the Baptist Home for the Aged in Culpepper, Va. and
a director of the Arlington branch of the Salvation Army. His business and
social connections included membership on the board of directors of the Arlington
Chamber of Commerce and in the Society of the Lees of Virginia.
Children of WILLIAM HOGE and ELIZABETH HIDEN are:
i. WILLIAM SCHOFIELD7 HOGE III, b. 13 Jan 1906, Washington, D.C (Source: "The
Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential
Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park
Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969); m. MARY CURRIE BATTLE, 10 Jan
1942, Richmond, VA (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families -
Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data",
by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept.
1969).
ii. MARY HIDEN HOGE, b. 20 May 1907, Washington, D.C (Source: "The Hoge,
Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement
of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview
Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969); m. (1) THEODORE CARTER GLEYSTEEN; m. (2) ROBERT
WALTER BURTON, Bet. 1930 - 1931 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related
Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical
Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH
44126, Sept. 1969).
Notes for MARY HIDEN HOGE:
Lives in Gloucester, VA
iii. ELIZABETH HIDEN HOGE, b. 28 Jun 1909 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols
and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement
of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview
Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969); m. THOMAS JOSEPH GROOM, 11 Jun 1934, Bethesda,
MA (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical
- A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols,
4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969).
Notes for ELIZABETH HIDEN HOGE:
Elizabeth (Betsy) 1. 1997 M (2) Clark Diamond & Closed the Hoge Fd. She
lives in Alexandria VA
14. PHILIP BARLOW6 HOGE (WILLIAM SCOFIELD5, RACHEL NEILL4 SCOFIELD, MAHLON3,
JOHN2, JOHN1 SCHOFIELD) was born 10 Nov 1883 in Washington DC (Source: 1900
Dist of Columbia Census.), and died 23 Jun 1964 in South Kingston RI, - buried
Jamestown RI (Source: Death Cert #4557 State of RI.). He married DOROTHY MORGAN
ANDERSON 16 Apr 1918 in Washington DC (Source: Marriage Cert..), daughter
of FRANK ANDERSON and ELEANOR COFFIN. She was born 02 May 1887 in New Brighton/Castleton
NY (Source: Birth Cert..), and died 16 Jul 1979 in Bristol RI - buried Jamestown
RI (Source: Death Cert. #138-79-004660 State of RI.).
Notes for PHILIP BARLOW HOGE:
Born at 1402 15TH St NW Wash DC Attending Physician Dr Johnson
1908 - Graduate of Cornell
1913-1914 Pres Hoge & Leubkert (Sidewalk Contractors) Wash DC
US Army IST LT Corps of Engineers 1917,Captain,
Major, Construction Div QM Corps 1918
The following is a letter written by Dorthy Anderson
Hoge, wife of Philip Barlow Hoge, between 1965-1970.
Hoge
Spencer (Dickinson) has the Hoge family tree rolled up somewhere but it's
hard to discipher and doesn't go as far as our generation anyway. The original
Hoge came to this county on one of the early pioneer ships landing at Perth
Amboy. On the ship was a Barbara Hume (ship's romance). They married and started
the long line of sturdy progressive Quakers. One descendent went to Seattle,
one to middle west, one was the Presbyterian minister who "flourished"
in NY (xx son) met in Coconut Grove(FL) Doctor, ( I think) Peyton, evidently
wealthy and children married abroad. Phil's family among others settled as
land owning farmers in Virginia, the famous Loudoun County, Quakers. Phil's
father had brothers; Isaac, remained a farmer; Lewis, married cousin Rachel
- she the business woman, he the intellectual. James, the eldest, he and Phil's
father Willy finally left Virginia, went into business in Washington, grain
elevator, & supply. James was Clark's (Norris of Chicago) father, also
Julia's.
Phil's father married Mary Stearns, whose mother
was the Lee connection, I think her name was Harriet. Another sister Josie
married Johns Hopkin's brother. Phyllis (Hoge) has her picture. One was married
to Uncle Will Hastings. Stearns was an Episcopal minister from upper New York.
This was during the civil war and they were very poor, but certainly had great
taste and education of the sort acquired from books, not schooling. I don't
know where she and Willy Hoge met but I think at the Hopkin's in Baltimore.
We had mutual cousins there.
The Hoge children were Nan, Rachel, Will, Phil,
Mary, Margaret, Barbara. Nan's children are Fred Savage Jr., Dorothy Oudin,
Nan & Rachel married brothers - Fred, and Frank (Savage). Rachel's only
child - Anne Pettit. Will's - are Bill, Mary Gleysteen, and Betsy, now Diamond.
Mary married Murdock Norris. Mary's children are Anne Poole, Alan, and Polly
- Polly married John Rulon-Miller. Margaret married J. Nicholas Brewster,
had daughter Peggy. Barbara married Laurence Stickney whom she met visiting
Rachel Savage in St. Paul. He died and she married Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt
(no children from either marriage).
Janet Bangs' mother was a Hoge from Loudoun Co,
first cousin of the Willy Hoges. She married Charles Norris (no relation to
Murdock Norris) from the wide farm land in Illinois, raised horses and cattle.
The miniature that Eleanor Dickinson has is Janet Bangs' mother. She kept
a fascinating diary which I read to Janet the last time I was there, covered
her engagement, wedding and early married life in the big household she went
to. It was hard to read, I'm afraid it's lost. There are a great many legends
of the Hoge connection in the middle west who used to come and visit the Washington
Hoges. They were always welcome. One was Aunt Fred, married a one time mayor
of Chicago - a more or less no-good and detereriorated, but Aunt Fred was
something. On the spread out prairie she decided it was lovely for people
so posted a notice in the store post office of a 4th of July picnic, for everybody
to come with family and food in wagons to certain grove. Everybody came. There
were over a hundred families. She never got enough ice cream so on one visit
Mr. Hoge ordered two gallons and she ate through it on her visit. Another
odd one was cousin Debbie whose mission in life was to visit, preach to, and
convert prisoners, so wouldn't do anything else on her visit but visit Washington
prisoners. On his mother's side,(the Lee side), were Aunt Minnie and Aunt
Jinny in the old house in Alexandria, the ones whose servants sold off the
downstairs furniture. They let down the front door key on a string so Mrs
H and Phil could come in. Senator Smoot bought the house. It's now government
owned.
As to Phil and me, I had a friend at Miss Dorsey's
school where I went for a year after I came back to Washington from Paris
having spent a year out of school with nervous headaches. She was Grace Allen.(Years
later around 1975 when Grace, who never married, was living in a nursing home
in Ridgewood, N. J. having been put there by a nephew, she was visited by
Dorothy Hoge and her daughter, Langley Hoge Kenzie. By this time they were
both very old, and Grace's memory had partly gone. Grace asked Dorothy whatever
happened to Phil Hoge? And Dorothy answered, " I married him", They
were both crying.) She knew other Army girls and some Navy who all went to
Miss Haxall's dancing class at Rauscher's. The Hoges had sent Mary and Phil.
They went to public high school. Phil got to know the young group and stuck
with them. The girls drifted off and went to boarding school, but I wouldn't
go to the dancing class (like the fortnightlys in Elizabeth) but I got to
know the group through Grace. I went with her and a group to the High School
Cadet Training Corps Graduation contest where Phil's company (he was captain)
won the flag. Great occasion. He had worked it all out on paper first. Grace
thought he was a "rough diamond" preferred some others who seemed
to me the walking disaster types. Of course I had had an awful lot of experience
of people by the time I was fifteen. Phil was eighteen then, just plain himself.
We went on long walks (whole group) though Rock Creek Park, on lots of Sundays,
played ping pong at various houses, tennis on somebodys fixed up lot on P
Street and went to matinees, very good stock companies during the summer.
Mostly Phil and I did that alone, got seats in the last row and sat on the
back, with our feet in the seats. The theater served paper cups of sherbet
between the acts, 25 cents an afternoon. They all went off to college in the
fall but we continued more or less though the next few years holidays and
Phil and I kept up a correspondence always. He never talked about his family.
We were of different groups. It was years before I knew he had a brother or
sister besides Mary and Margaret.
Later as I grew to know Phil's people and background
better there were things almost legendary that fascinated me, being so different
from anything that had ever touched my life. The idea of his father and uncle
the two oldest of a Quaker farm family after the civil war, walking from Lynchburg
or Warrenton all the way to Providence to go to Brown, picking up rides along
the way. Their mother and aunt and other children ran the farm. Somehow they
were never stuck, they were all educated and managed to visit relatives as
far as Illinois. A tradition. The middle westerners all visited the Hoges
in Washington and there were always extras in the house. Phil's father did
the marketing. He'd go out, pick up a little colored boy somewhere to carry
the basket, and go to the old P St. market and load up. A great plenty of
the best plain food which Mrs Hoge doled out each day from locked store room.
They had a smoke house in the back yard. When Phil worked for his father after
leaving college he'd go out about 6:00 to get things started, return to an
assembled enormous hot breakfast. During their childhood when Mr Hoge and
Uncle James made money, they bought land outside of Washington called Washington
View where they could take all the children in the summers, orchard, fresh
vegetables, horse & buggy, preserving. Probably they all got interested
in land development there. Rachel & Phil were the only ones who wanted
to go to college. Rachel afterwards taught a few years in the public school.
I gathered not too successfully, but always enthusiastically. An arranger
whose plans didn't always work out. Nan was the social one and Washington
being small and they being what used to be called "cave Dwellers",
long time settlers not congress or diplomats - or service, all knew each other.
One of Nan's best friends was Lucy Bayne Theall.
POEMS BY P. B. HOGE:
"THE ROOSTER BIRD"
The silliest sound I've ever heard
Is that made by the rooster bird.
The song that's sung by Mister Cock
of Leghorn breed or Plymouth Rock,
Rhode Island Red or Dominick,
Or any other brand of chick
Though oft called a "cock a doodle do",
The appelation is not true.
The voice that's raised by Chantieler,
That rends the early morning air
Sounds most absurd you will ever hear,
For what he says is "Urk uh urr".
"GEESE"
Geese sure do make an awful squawk
When they just talk and talk and talk.
But warm and gentle rain in spring
Will make them sing and sing and sing.
They lift their beaks, their necks they crane,
The silly creatures love the rain.
They seem to reach the heights of bliss
That lovers reach when lovers kiss.
I love to watch them in the Spring,
To hear them sing and sing and sing.
CORRECTED VERSION & NEW TITLE
"GOOSES"
When goose to goose essays to talk
The sound you hear is just a squawk
But sometimes when it rains in Spring
Just listen and you'll hear them sing
With beaks upraised and neck a craning
They make sweet music when it's raining
And seem to reach the heights of bliss
That lovers reach when lovers kiss
When falls the gentle rain in spring
O' then's the time the gooses sing
"THE SKUNK"
Oft have I thunk and thunk and thunk,
What kind of noise is made by skunk?
I never yet have heard his voice,
As I keep far from him by choice.
No doubt he'd sound verbose enough,
Did I dare listen close enough.
His fur is nice with lovely marking,
But I have never heard him barking.
He looks a handsome little creature,
But looks are not his leading feature.
The skunk is just an awful smeller,
Tho' noiseless he's a noisome feller.
He may be silent, but I think
Instead of voice he's got a stink.
This was a talk given to the Monday Evening Club,
in Elizabeth, NJ at the house of P. B. Hoge, about 1940 - after which Hoge
asked lawyer friend in the audience group - (Mr. Bart Woodruff) to come up
and present him with award for Liars Club - "Liar of the Year" or
some such.
In the summer of 1906 - during school vacation,
I got a job as roadman in a surveying part on the Northern Pacific Railroad
in western Montana. As I had to pay my own way as far as Livingston, Montana,
where I joined the party, I rode in a coach. From there on, we were carried
free, but as we were not very high-priced workers we all rode in coaches the
rest of the way. My pay was the magnificent sum of $50.00 a month - board
and lodging free. This is twice the amount I had gotten as axeman 4 years
previously in another survey party.
Our first location was Bonver, Montana a small
village at the foot of a mountain. The village itself was dwarfed by a huge
sawmill plant of the Big Blackfoot Milling Company. I never saw as much lumber
in one place in my life - before or since - and I suspect the forests in that
location were being rapidly denuded as this was before the days of serious
forest conservation.
For the first week or ten days we lived in style,
sleeping and getting our meals in the hotel in Bonver, until some thrifty
soul in the home office must have decided that such treatment was too fancy
for a field party. So two much-used and rather drafty box cars (of the type
familiarly known as side-door Pullmans) were rolled in on a side track and
fitted with wooden bunks, and arrangements made with a local boarding house
to feed us.
We were given blankets, but anything else we
had to get for ourselves. A box car properly fitted up is not an uncomfortable
place to live - and as there were only 6 or 8 men in our car - a double decker
bunk in each corner - it wasn't too bad. The only trouble was during the first
night. What the car had been used for previously I do not know, but it looked
as though some cattle might have been in there for a while. At any rate, one
of the boys was given the job of cleaning it out - and he did - with a vengeance.
He used a shovel and broom and then to make sure all was sanitary he sprinkled
chloride of lime around generously - and then water to lay the dust. I am
not sure of my chemistry, as it has been a long time since I have had anything
to do with the subjuct, but I think when you mix chloride of lime and water
you get chlorine gas. At any rate, whatever it was, I was in a lower bunk
in one corner - with a blanket and no mattress and I breathed the awful stuff
all night long - and shivered - and I even shivered the next day in the warm
sunshine, so the party chief sent me to the Company hospital in Missonla -
just a few miles down the railroad. I will never forget the perfectly delightful
feeling of setting into the hospital cot in a warm room after a good hot bath.
I must have picked up a bug along with the chlorine, as I was off the job
for about 2 weeks with the flu - except we called it the grippe then.
I would like to say something here - parenthetically
- a few side remarks. Remember, these were the days before employee insurance
of any kind - when men were sick or injured on the job and had to get along
as best they could until they could work again and get back on the payroll.
The N.P.R.R. must have had this hospital in operation for some years. The
buildings were not new, there was a staff of doctors and nurses and 30 or
40 beds - 20 or 25 were occupied by patients while I was there. The company
gave complete medical and hospital care and paid wages, too - not from any
paternalistic or philanthropical idea, but purely from intelligent self interest.
They had probably learned by experience that it was cheaper and more satisfactory
to get experienced men back on the job quickly than to hire new untried men.
The towns were quite far apart and the country thinly settled. So far as I
know they ran the only hospital in Missonla. Other railroads there must have
done the same thing, because a brother-in-law of mine - a doctor living in
St. Paul, Minnesota was a railroad doctor for some years as a young man.
I bought a mattress in Missonla to take back
with me. The other boys had done the same. No use not being comfortable. We
settled down to the routine of surveying.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
(better known simply as the Milwaukee) had decided to extend its rail to the
Pacific Coast and had surveying parties in to locate a line. The Northern
Pacific didn't like that idea much and had put our party in the field in what
they claimed was a desire to shorten their line and eliminate steep grades
- no doubt true - but it was also on attempt to put a crimp in the Milwaukee
plans and get in ahead of them using up the best locations whereever posible.
Our chief of party always pulled up whatever Milwaukee stakes he found and
threw them away - a nice friendly gesture. However, it didn't stop the Milwaukee
at any rate. As far as I know they not only reached the coast, but they electrified
their lines - if not all the way - at least over the mountains. Maybe somebody
here knows better about that than I do as I haven't been that far west again
for over 50 years.
I don't know what is the best kind of job for
a young man to have, but that summer was a pleasant and healthful experience.
A great deal of walking, some trees to cut down, some brambles to slash through,
swamps to muck through and a swift river to ford occasionally.
The river - called the Hellgate then - but now
according to the map by the much more dignified and proper name of Clark River
- was not large nor very deep - but very swift and with many rapids. In many
places it was possible to wade it in perfect safety - in fact it was a relief
to get in the water, as the days were clear, hot and dry - so dry in fact
that I have been wet and dried off completely 3 times in one day - that means
clothes, shoes and all - as you had to ford the river as you were.
There was one place we wanted to cross and started
ont confidently enough but as the water got deeper and we saw the rapids not
far down the river - each one of us would turn back - and someone else watching
from the shore - from which point it looked so easy - would try it a bit farther
and then turn back again. I made several false starts losing my nerve each
time and finally getting to where the water started getting shallow again
beyond the middle of the river and had just started up the slope when the
current got me. I swam back for the shore I had feft and was grabbed as I
swept by. I learned one thing from that experience. I was scared to death
wading that river and remembering the rapids below but once I was off my feet
I was so busy swimming back to the shore it never occured to me to be frightened.
Anticipation is often worse than actuality.
Our party consisted of the chief - named Heckman
- and about 10 men. Heckman, as I remember, was a cynical man, but probably
a good man on location surveys. I guess he knew his business. Woody, the transit
man was a morose individual. Ernie was a good man who did his job - I have
forgotten what his duties were - and minded his own business. Ed was the level
man - my boss - a moody individual. The thing that I remember best about him
was when I was slowly plowing knee deep in the muck of a drying up swamp and
Ed at the surveying level on dry ground in the shade of a tree and cursing
me for being so slow - and with each sloggy step I was getting madder and
madder.
Cupid was a gay pleasant little man about 35
years old - I don't remember what his duties were, but it was pleasant to
have him around. Murphy the axeman was a nice young Irish lad almost 18. Slim
was a big pleasant young man named Claude Averill - but who was always addressed
as "you big Swede you." He was head chairman or tapeman - and M.J.
Harrison was rear tapeman.
M.J. Harrison - the last on the list - was a
- well it wouldn't be polite to say what he was - but that is what he was.
He was a red haired tough little runt. I do not know what kind of work he
was best fitted for but he had been many things during his checkered career.
He had been a bar tender, a hack driver, a jockey (disqualified for some kind
of crooked work, though he always claimed he was railroaded out of the job.)
He had an unlimited found of experiences if one believed what he said. "did
I ever tell you about the time I joined the Salvation Army." or "That
reminds me of the time." No matter what anybody else had done, Harrison
could go him one better. The chief of the party said, "I don't know what
his birth record shows, but if Harrison is telling the truth he is at least
70 years old. Nobody could have done all of the things he claimed to have
done in 30 years of life. There wouldn't have been time.
He told us once that he had a girl in a small
town, but had left the town. he went back to the town about 3 years later
and went to see his girl friend. "She had a small red headed brat she
was trying to teach to call me "Papa". I left that town again, and
I ain't going thru anymore."
We asked him often what "M.J." stood
for but he would never tell. "Don't nobody know but me and my mother.
A police judge asked me that once, and that's what I told him - and I ain't
told nobody - then or since".
He had a scar on his leg where somebody had knifed
him. He was quite peeved about that. "I shot at the so-and-so,"
he said. "Wish I had killed him."
After one payday he spent the night in the back
room of the bar gambling - and got cleaned out, but he wasn't mad at the man
who got his money. He was mad at the Northern Pacific Railroad because he
had worked for a whole month getting tired and wet and had nothing to show
for it.
Generally every Saturday night the whole gang
would take the train free ride for employees - and go to Missonla or Butte
for a big night - and they usually had one - according to their stories when
they got back. No, I never went along, maybe I was just unsociable. I do not
pretend to be any saint, but to tell the truth raising that particular kind
of hell never appealed to me. It would bore me to death. I could never see
any percentage in getting drunk. Just never wanted to.
On one of these trips Harrison went with the
gang but was missing on the return trip. The others guessed he was in jail.
Two days later he was back. Hopped a freight train for transportation. The
very first thing he went up to Slim "the big Swede" - and said "I
licked a man a heap bigger than you. I socked him with a billard cue, and
the blankity blank cops put me in jail.
One Saturday night the whole gang pulled out
as usual - Harrison with them. This time instead of being late he was back
early. He walked in early Sunday morning - quite mad. It seems he had gotten
into an argument and a fight on the train and the conductor put him off at
some small station. He beat his way back on a freight but he didn't know what
to do with himself in camp - and as usual he was a pest.
Sometime during the morning he discovered fishing
gear belonging to one of the other men and suggested fishing. That looked
like a good idea as the stream about two miles away was loaded with fish and
very little skill was needed to catch them. So we went and caught some and
built a fire, cooked and ate them.
There was still a lot of the day left - and it
was warm. We took off our clothes and washed them in the stream as we often
did and hung them up on tree branches a short distance away on the hillside
on the edge of the woods to dry and then went back for a swim. We often did
this if we got a chance. The hot sun dried everything in half and hour.
Harrison, who couldn't swim much anyway and was
never satisfied to stay at anything very long, decided he had had enough of
the water and went up to get dressed.
A little later I came out to do the same but
he started throwing rocks at me to keep me from getting my clothes. His idea
was to keep me naked for a while. I suppose if he had thought of it sooner
he would have grabbed my clothes before I could get them and make me walk
the 2 miles back to camp naked. It would have been a good joke at that - I
am bound to admit now - though I wouldn't have thought so then.
At any rate Mr. Harrison was going to have his
fun for awhile. I had to duck behind a tree to escape his barrage of stones
and every attempt to reach my clothes brought more stones. There were no rocks
near my tree and I was getting pretty well fed up with the nonsence - when
I saw a short chunky stick nearby. I make a quick dash and got it fighting
on some sort of delaying action so I could reach my clothes.
Realizing that there were no stones where I was
he got a little bolder and nearer - and then I fired the stick at him. It
never touched him but it disconcerted him and he dodged and ran back - and
I heard him yell. I make a break and dashed out got my clothes and moved out
of his neighborhood and got dressed - expecting him to appear any minute.
I couldn't see him anywhere or hear him either
and I looked around expecting him from another quarter, as I was sure he was
cooking up some sort of devilment. Finally, I called him to come along and
go back to camp. No response. Then I got curious and circled around and approached
the place where he had been. There was a slight depression in the ground,
loose stones lying around, and a mound of dirt beside it which had not been
visible from where I had been. When I got closer I discovered that the depression
was the edge of a hole. It looked like an abandoned mine shaft. We occasionally
ran across them - where a prospector had made a try for one and given up when
the hole showed no promise.
Up until then I hadn't worried much about Harrison.
I had thought he had just gone back in the woods - or even back to camp. But
when I saw that hole I got scared - real scared. I couldn't see very far down
the hole. Too dark, so I threw a lighted match down but of course it went
out right away. I was getting a bit frantic. I wanted to see the bottom of
that hole. Finally I found a dried pine branch, lighted it and tossed it down.
I never saw the bottom - but I saw water about 25 feet down - and I saw something
else. I saw a foot and part of a leg sticking out of the water at an angle
and it was not moving.
I rushed around to see if I couldn't find some
way of getting down. I found a small tree blown over, but it was much too
short. I didn't have an axe - only a pocket knife. there just wasn't anyway
of getting down with any assurance of being able to get out again. I started
to leave several times, to get help. I was afraid not to go and then afraid
to go. I was much confused.
Time was passing. Harrison had been in there
at least half an hour before I discovered him and by the time I had to abandon
any idea of reaching him over two hours had gone by. I didn't know what to
do. I just quit then and did some tall thinking.
The normal thing is to try to find help and somebody to report the accident
to and explain what happened. There was no doubt that Harrison was gone. He
had probably struck his head and been stunned and drowned. I tried to compose
myself the best I could and think what was best to do - and I thought the
thing through for a long time. I did some tall thinking pro and con.
As I saw it Harrison had left with the rest of
the crowd for Butte, and when he was put off the train the rest had gone on.
Nobody had seen him on the freight he took back to camp as he had just been
chased off one before that and made sure he would not be chased off again
so kept well out of sight.
Nobody had been around when he got back to camp.
Except for the 2 of us the place was utterly deserted. The country was rather
wild and we had not seen anyone when we left camp or on the walk to the river.
I figured when the rest of the croud came back
they would tell about his being put off the train - and wonder when he would
be back. If he didn't come back they might talk about it for a few days and
decide he had just quit. The month had just ended and everybody had been paid
to date - so if he didn't come back he would be taken off the payroll - and
they wouldn't expect him to come to collect any more money because none would
be due to him.
He had threatened to quit plenty of times and
they would probably decide he had finally done so - and he would pass out
of mind except for the tall tales about him. That is the way I reasoned it
out. The rest of the outfit would easily explain Harrison's disappearance
to their own satisfaction.
What about my side of it. Harrison was gone.
There wasn't any doubt about it. If I reported exactly what had happened would
I be believed? Would any of our ??? camp ??? be made much of by the local
authorities? Of course I had some responsiblity but he had really brought
it on himself and much as I regretted the outcome there was nothing I could
do now.
I was due back in college in less than a month.
Any investigation would cause untold delay regardless of the outcome. It would
certainly upset my parents who were getting along in years - especially my
mother.
They say an honest confession is good for the
soul. Is it? Would it have done any good now?
I finally decided the best thing to do was to
keep quiet so I did.
I tossed as many dead pine branches as I could
collect down the hole and pushed a few large rocks in on top, and left - and
got back to camp and tried to get myself composed. The boys got back that
night. I didn't sleep too well and wasn't too cheerful, but the rest of the
crowd said what a fool I was to go swimming and get so badly sunburned. No
wonder I was out of sorts.
However, they all figured that Harrison had quit
the job and gone somewhere else - and nobody gave it a thought. I got back
to college in time and I haven't been back to Montana since.
I know it is customary to ask if there any questions.
I want to reverse that procedure and first ask a question myself. What would
you have done?
Notes for DOROTHY MORGAN ANDERSON:
The following is a letter written by Dorothy Anderson Hoge sometime between
1965 and 1970..
ANDERSON FAMILY
Unfortunately, I don't know too much. Eleanor Fay and Reg Henry had as much
as they could get from the family cousins in old letters in Halifax, N.S.
Canada, but one of the early immigrant decendants, a son, became a doctor
and established the first medical school in Vermont. Another one had three
daughters, Harriet, Ann, and Dorothy. He was a lieutenant in the British army
named Langley. That's where the Langleys came in. Harriet married William
Astley Cooper Anderson who had studied medicine in Edinburgh as all good doctors
did in those days, and also as had his father who named him after a famous
doctor professor there. W.A.C Anderson was my great grandfather. He and Harriet
migrated to Staten Island. His son, same name, married Louisa Morgan, whose
father was a N.Y. banker. Her brother was the Uncle Charles whose portrait
we have. My father and Lulie (the Henry's mother) and Willie, the only survivors
of a number of children. Willie was crippled in some way, a recluse, moved
back to Halifax. Ann Langley, great grandmother of the Creighton family in
Halifax. Their mother, the cousin Helen we knew.
I'm not sure how the New Orleans property came
into the family, but it was there in my Grandfather Anderson's day, through
his wife Louisa Morgan who had inherited her shares. My father gradually bought
up the Henry boys' divided inheritance as they came of age so that he owned
all his mother's share, which set him somewhat ahead financially (eventually)
of most U.S. Navy doctors.
HENRY
They don't know much of anything about the Henry antecedents, but their father's
mother was a sister of President Buchanan. That's how he came to be President
Buchanan's private secretary and special emissary to the court of St. James.
He had two sons by his first wife who was a Magruder. So he was an older widower
when Lulie Anderson was married to him. No doubt, he was supposed to be something,
but my father, though I don't remember his ever actually saying anything,
never liked him much and resented the way he took over her money (lost it),
and used to go off to Europe with his older son, Joe, and leave his "sainted
Lulie" with all those little boys and one servant. She died of pneumonia,
taking care of baby Frank, and pregnant with the seventh. My father stuck
around whenever possible and took care of the little boys who had everything.
Jim nearly died of Diptheria. My father put a tube in his throat and sucked
out the infection, Uncle Henry away. He didn't marry until after Lulie Died.
Wanted to take Frank who was named for him, but Uncle Henry thought my mother
too young and flighty. Frank and Reg, then one year and three years, were
given to Aunt Hattie Irving to take care of, niece of Washington Irving, a
nice old maid, reputed to have been engaged to marry my Grandfather Anderson
after my grandmother died. She was nice, and always kept Frank, which was
not too good for him. Aunt Belle Robson from Halifax came and took care of
the other four boys for a few years, also Aunt Sidnay Morgan, Spinster, my
grandmother's sister. Reg's records have most of this. I Told Sid about my
father. He was surprised.
As the Henry boys grew older they were put into
various not too expensive schools, except Frank, who went to a good school
in Staten Island. My memory picks up where Aunt Hattie Irving (my Godmother)
used to bring Frank to visit us in the 19th Street house in Washington. She
dressed in black silk with a triangle of lace on her head topped with a lavender
bow. I thought she was a hundred, but she was probably sixty. Frank was a
sort of stilted, highly literary, anxious for playmates little boy, quizzical
sense of humor which he always had, but blind in one eye which made him "different".
He had several operations, which made it less obvious. I first remember Reg
when he was about fourteen, came to George Washington Catholic Boarding School,
spent his holidays with us. He thought he'd be a Bishop, it was a good job.
Sid came too, and went to day school. He was sixteen. Still in short pants.
Lived with us for a while, especially when my father was at sea, and my mother
in the house alone with us, two servants. My grandparents Coffin had lived
on R street until my grandmother died when I was six, and my grandfather applied
for sea duty. He came back and lived with us in 1895-96. As the boys grew
up, their father "placed" them, no special regard to what they wanted.
Will, the eldest, at fifteen, went into railroad shops, (he wanted to be a
doctor, but Uncle Henry said he couldn't afford anything and had Cassatt cousins)
Jim into the Naval Academy, he wanted West Point. Rob into West Point, he
wanted that, but failed in math for lack of any preparation, and his father
said he disgraced the family and wouldn't do anything more for him. So Rob
said, "Give me a dollar to go to New York, and you'll be free of me."
So he did. Rob got a job sweeping out an office, and as you know, got his
own banking and investing business, Sid wanted the navy, and "retrieved"
the Henry reputation by graduating second in his class and becoming National
Fencing Champion. He went on to M.I.T. and then retired and went into business
as maritime finance consultant, at one time president of Matson Lines. Reg,
not prepared for anything, but crazy for one of the services, worked for Rob
for a while but was then to old for an appointment so only opening was a line.
He chose medicine and the older boys clubbed together and put him through
U. of Virginia then medical school, and he got into the Navy, served with
marine corps. not too hot as a practising doctor, but good on public health.
Laid out San Juan System. They all married their own kind of people and never
any question about their tastes or how they behaved. They had the advantage
while young of visiting us in vacations and going for a while in the summers
to Lake George where their father was commodore of Lake George Yachting Club
where they met nice girls and were a part in the regattas. Will married May
Du Bignon of Atlanta. He became Supt of Eastern Lines of Penn. R.R. Jim married
Mary McLaughry from Leavenworth. Her father was a prison authority and introduced
thumb printing to U.S. Rob married Jean Tolar, Bay Ridge, they lived at St.
John's Place Brooklyn, where I used to visit them. I was bridesmaid at their
wedding while I was at Oldfields. The "Mister" announced his engagement
at Rob's wedding to Margaret, 50 years younger the he. They were married nine
years. My father's only remark was she got more out of him than his sister
ever did. But he left nearly nothing and the boys took care of her until she
died. You know about Reg and Frank.
COFFIN
The Coffin geneology is pretty complete and is
on record for us with the Colonial Dames. Reg also had it where it interlocked
with us. He also had what was known of the Anderson connection. My mother
was Eleanor Calder Coffin, her mother Mary Calder Cartwright. (I think her
mother was Starbuck, my grandmother). She married George William Coffin, Nantucket,
who was brought up by aunt and uncle, his parents dead. He was the first of
the sea-going Coffins who went into the U.S. Navy, graduated early (from Naval
Academy) because of Civil War held Fort Fisher (at age 21) until Fort Sumter
was taken, wounded in leg, promoted to Lt. Cmdr. went to Russia and Admiral
Farragut - that's why my mother was called Lena. Volunteered for Greely Relief
Expedition and had command of the "Alert" - one of the three ships
commanded by Admiral Schley. He stood in the crow's nest 72 hours and got
his leg frozen where it had been wounded. After return was offered head of
navigation but turned it down and took the Lighthouse Service because, I think,
it kept him near home, and my grandmother was ill. The Lighthouse Service
was then under the Navy. After her death, he went to sea, on U.S.S. Charleston
to the Far East. plotted Manila Bay (then Spanish) then sent plans to Admiral
Dewey (his roommate at Annapolis) who had never been there, and who used them
in battle of Manilla Bay. He retired in 1896, went to Yokohama with us, went
back to active duty during war 1899, but it was too much for him, died in
Yokohama in 1900. Until his death I knew him better than I knew my father,
and was with him a great deal. He was wonderful.
WHERE WE WERE AND PROBABLE DATES - PROBABLY ACCURATE FROM THE SAME LETTER
(see above)
I was born May 2, 1887, in New Brighton Staten Island. My father was at sea
at the time and probably my grandfather also because I have never found any
allusion to him at the time. Evidently my grandmother and mother went to Staten
Island because of my father's connections, though by that time his immediate
family was all dead. Aunt Hattie Irving was there however, taking care of
Frank who was three and Reg, six. Reg was the one able to testify as to my
birth and christening when I applied for a passport since he remimbered being
at the christening and its being in a house with the bishop in charge which
it made is difficult to find a record in a parish church. The local minister
of the community where the house was, was not New Brighton. Aunt Hattie was
my godmother. I don't know when my grandparents moved to Washington to 2023
R St. but that's where we all were until I was about four years old whn the
19th St. house was built. Eleanor was born in the R St. house Aug. 3rd, 1890.
My grandfather was then head of the Light House Service, then under the Navy
Dept.
My parents built the 19th St. house when Eleanor was about 18 months old.
My grandmother must have given them most of the money from a small legacy
because she stipulated that the house should never be sold unless it was replaced
by another. The idea in those days being a house was the only safeguard for
a widow who could always take boarders. They had seen to many destitute Navy
widows. My grandparents were young themselves, my grandmother scarcely 40,
Nana. My father was seventeen years older than my mother.
We lived at 1628 19th St. until my father was ordered to Yokohama in 1897.
He was attached to the Naval Dispensary for part of the time but had a quite
extensive private practice which they could at that time, and a reputation
as a diagnosticion. The latter part of the time was his sea duty, attached
to U.S.S. (unable to fully decipher the name of the ship appears like Archlintrite),
I think a gunboat, at the disposal of the president because on one cruise
the Chinese ammbassador was aboard with the President - the famous Li Huong
Chang (not sure of this spelling). So the ship was often at the navy yard.
I remember going there to see the ship once, but I don't remember the ship,
just going. My father while ashore on Dispensary duty had a horse and a closed
sort of vehicle, not a buggy, and a colored driver named Spencer.
My grandmother died in 1893. My grandfather immediately applied fo sea duty
and went to Japan and the Philippines on U.S.S. Charleston as Captain It was
there he mapped Manila Bay which afterwards served Admiral Dewey when he took
Manila in the Spanish American War. My grandfather never made admiral. He
had been ordered to South America right after having had his leg frozen on
the Arctic Expedition to rescue General Greely and developed Bright's disease
which it affected his heart, and he retired in 1895 or 6 and lived with us
at 1628 19th Street while my father was at sea, when we all went to Yokohama
on October 7, 1897. My father preceded us in August and was there to meet
us. We were in Yokohama at the Naval Hospital from Nov. 1897 (it took us a
month to get there from Washington, 5 days train, a stop in San Francisco,
18 days by P & O Steamer ) to Oct. 1900. It looked like a split in the
family then. My grandfather had died 10 months previously and had evidently
left money to my mother to take me to Europe to school, ( I was always his
"pearl of pride" and had spent much of my childhood with them, and
in Yokohama in his separate little house on the Bluff where he had a "boy",
a victoria to ride in, and two fox terriers, Chubbie and Gus.) Anyway my mother
and I took the N.G. Lloyd Sachsen steamer for Europe and my father took Eleanor
to U.S. and left her with Aunt Hattie and Frank in New Brighton until my mother
had found the Paris school for me, and rejoined them.
Polly Condis Smith, sister of Mrs. Albert Key. Key was in the Embassy at Tokyo.
Another sister was Mrs. Leonard Wood, Governor of Philippines after Spanish
American War. Polly had just survived the Boxer Rebellion in Peking and was
quite famous for her maintenance work during the siege. She travelled with
mother and me to Paris and I shared a stateroom with her on N. G. Lloyd Oldenburg
in the Mediterranean after our two weeks in Cairo. She was only 23. She left
us in Paris to get married to Richard Hooker, Marine Corps. Needless to say
I gleamed an awful lot about her experience in Peking. Most of the people
I knew anyway as they had passed through Yokohama on their way.
I was in the Paris school from December 1900 until August 1901 when mother
came over to see me and spend a month at St Marguerite in Brittany with some
friends she had known in Japan-the Wilders from Honolulu. We were in Hotel
de la Plage, they in a cottage. Eleanor had been left with Mrs Knox and Marguerite
to go to Lake George. But I was ill- headache, sort of a nervous breakdown
and she brought me home instead. My father was again at sea and the 19th Street
house rented, so we had an appartment at the Portner,15th and U Street. I
was in bed most of the year, until I was 15. Eleanor went to the Miss Dorsey's
School where I went after a while. It was then I got to know Grace Allen and
Alice Goodwin and Constance Hoyt,sister of Elinor Hoyt Wylie who afterwards
married William Rose Benet. Also Mary Howry who now lives in Jamestown, and
other native Washington young and Army and Navy girls. This was a few years
before the rival school of Holton-Arms. I only went spasmodically until I
went to Oldfields in 1905.
My father still at sea, Eleanor and I went to Oldfields in October 1905. Rob
Henry was married late October and we went to Bayridge, Brooklyn for the wedding.
I was bridesmaid. The winter of 1905-6 Eleanor and I were at Oldfields and
my father back, a house was rented for the summer on DeSales Street opposite
the convent which was later torn down to make the Mayflower Hotel. Blanche
Brune (VanDusen) stayed with us,also Frank Henry. In October, my father was
ordered to the Mare Island Navy Yard, and we left for California. It was a
lovely overland train trip. I rembered it from the one we had taken in 1897.
Not very different. We had drawing rooms both times.
We got the quarters on Mare Island at a beautiful time of year. I loved the
eucalyptus and hedge of nasturtiums. Big comfortable house. Sid Henry had
been ordered there after leaving MIT in the Construction Corps. They were
building a ship. Captain of the Yard was his "bete noir". It was
there he met Julia Persons whose father was a Doctor attached to the Marine
Barracks. My father had the Naval Dispensary of the Yard. Married June 1908.
We were at Mare Island from October 1905 to February 1908-at least the family
was. I left in May 1908 to go to Minneapolis to visit Blanche who had married
George VanDusen and was expecting Georgie, who showed up in August. I travelled
from San Francisco to Chicago in the private car of Mr. Hobart Moore who was
President of the Rock Island Railroad. Lucy Powell was Mrs. Moore's friend
and sort of general companion as Mr. Moore was an invalid. He never spoke
but wanted to play bridge all the time. Lucy had been a close friend of mother's
since Yokohama days. The Moores took me along as her friend and to make a
fourth for bridge. I played all the way from San Francisco to Chicago and
never played again. The Moore's only child, Than, had died at 25 after a wild
life. He had been married to a darling girl, Helen Fargo, who had a hard time
with him. He was of the era when rich young men gave parties for the Flora
Dora Chorus and he presented each one with a diamond bracelet. The Moores
were sunk. The private car was named Thanis after him. I left them at Chicago
and took the train on to Minneapolis. I left there and went to stay with Jim
and Mary Henry and Betty, then four, at Ft Snelling across the river from
St Paul. It was certainly a contrast to the VanDusens at Lake Minnetoka. Jim
was a 1st Lt in the 4th Cavalry by then. It was a new experience for me Army
life. I didn't like it, but enjoyed the visit and Jim. From there, in August,
I went to Colombus Ohio to visit Will and May Henry. Billy was three months
old. With them I went to Lake George where mother and Eleanor came. We were
there until late September.
My father was ordered to Annapolis from Mare Island. The Naval Hospital was
being built. He supervised the finishing and got it started. He was the first
one to try out women nurses in the Navy. Before he got to Annapolis we three
stayed at Carvel Hall but eventually rented the Colihan House 61 College Avenue
opposite St John's College Campus. I liked the Annapolis years, but I was
too old for the midshipmen. Eleanor was just right for it. I had had the most
glamorous of social life then extant in San Francisco as my mother's happiest
young years had been spent there and her friends married with children my
age and up in the world. I had missed the Great White Fleet as it engulfed
Mare Island and gave Eleanor and FlorenceTurner such heavy Navy life, but
I didn't mind that. I was never too much for the Navy. In Annapolis I had
individual friends of both Midshipmen and Officers, but as always it was Eleanor
who appealed to them first, being so attractive and gay. After a while certain
of them settled down to both of us, some to me, but it was, except in afew
cases always Eleanor first. Anyway, I hated the hops. I wanted still to study
art, which I couldn't do at Mare Island. I went up to Baltimore twice a week
to private lessons from Miss. Haycroft who had been a pupil of (William) Morris
in London. She taught crafts and design. I remember her first surprised remark
to her assistant-"Why, this girl can draw !!". She explained that
most who came to study design had no idea of drawing or use of mediums. Anyway
that's what I was more interested in. The first summer there we took a cottage
at Bolton Landing, Lake George, an improvement on Hague. The next summer I
went to England with the Frys to visit Frances Bright. I came back from a
wonderful trip and stay in England with the Brights in Rochdale Lancashire,
and then at the Mitchells. Sir William was then President of Shell Oil, they
had been friends of us and the Frys in Yokohama. Winnie Mitchell was one of
my friends there. They had a big Elizabethan place called Tudor Hall with
moat, deer park and all the appurtenances. I got back in October, midst of
Hudson-Fulton celebration 1909. Rush Fay had graduated in mid summer,and he
and Eleanor were engaged. I am wrong about when we took the cottage at Bolton.
Not that first summer-it was the second summer, because Rush got leave from
his first cruise and came to Bolton for his two weeks. Also, Bolivar Mead
who graduated in 1910. So Bolton was 1910. The spring of 1911 we went to Washington,
my father retired and was put on a Naval Examining Board which kept him busy.
We were back at 1628 19th Street and they did over a lot of the house. After
that for me it was Washington social life. I saw more of Phil who was then
working on sidewalks, and Jerry Creighton just back from Heidelberg-an odd
one, but we got on beautifully, Harriet Bayne whom I'd known so long anyway,
and now engaged to Guy Castle who had been at Mare Island and at that time
devoted to Florence. I was taken for a debutante and thrown in with that group,
as Eleanor and Rush were married in May 1912 and I was the one home. It was
gay and I enjoyed a lot of it but a lot was an awful bore, especially the
calling and the big balls. My father being looked upon as "moneyed"
sort of put us in a different bracket. Probably his entire entire income was
not over $10,000 but most people had 5 or 6. The summer after Eleanor was
married, I went to Narragansett with Mrs Bayne and Harriot and Louise. I roomed
with Harriot. It was awfully different then. Very gay, casino, beach wide
open, and board walk like Atlantic City. That winter I got the measles. All
the servants left. I was very sick. Afterwards for a change Mother and I went
to New Orleans and there I had a wonderful time. Hugh Aiken's brother Gayle
and I hit it off right away and I did the Mardi Gras with him. Also some Navy
men whom I had known were on a ship in port, and another man, a student at
some import business gave me some parties and a very good time. The Dene's,
Charles and Alphonse did a lot for us in the old New Orleans line of native
life. They had been agents for my father's real estate there for a hundred
years. That Washington era took us up to the summer of 1914 when my parents
went to England as their 25th Anniversary celebration and got caught in a
war. I was at Newport with Eleanor at a boarding house on K Street. Rush was
Captain of a submarine in Newport. That was when he got facial paralysis.
Back in Washington that winter I went to New York to study art at the Women's
School of Fine and Applied Art on Lexington Avenue at 4th. The first winter
I boarded around, had a lot of appendicitis pain and finally had an operation
in the spring. The next winter I lived mostly with the Van Vechten Olcotts
on 72d Street and Central Park West. It was another different experience.
He was a congressman from New York and she was the daughter of the Hoffman
House Hoffmans. Lots of money. Uncle Van was a friend of my father from the
Staten Island days.
In l9l5 my family built the house at Wardour on the 2 acre lot they bought
when we lived in Annapolis. The idea was looking toward retirement and my
mother was taken with the idea of a garden, and perhaps two riding horses.
The place was just being opened up. The Valiants (Rush's sister Florence)
bought a big lot on the creek side, the Doyens (sister Claude) another, and
various other people. Turned out to be not too congenial after some years.
It was a beautiful fair-sized southern sort of house. T. J. D. Fuller, architect.
That was the year I had appendicitis. In the summer while it was building
after I got strong enough, my mother and I went west. She to the Expo at San
Francisco, while I stopped off with Blanche at Lake Minnetonka. That was the
summer Tracy came there and in the fall had his house party at Great Lakes.
My father fell into the Wardour idea but it never worked for him. He was a
scholar and a student but no gardener . Mother loved it. There was a lovely
garden and they had a sleeping porch which they liked. Rush was ordered to
Annapolis so they were there a lot, and finally lived there until it was sold
when they went to China. My father was there less than a year being ordered
back to duty in Philadelphia. The Washington House was rented and finally
sold (for $l2,000, imagine). I never liked Wardour- climate, garden or people.
You could take the Short Line car to Baltimore or into Annapolis, but I only
liked it when people came to see us which many did and it broke the time I
was there. Sarah, who worked for us and came out from Camp Mead every day
was the best thing about it.Somewhere is the paper I wrote for The Monday
Evening Club called "Don't Rent-Buy" which has a lot of Wardour
in it.
The Alcotts were wonderful to me. I returned to art school , but in spite
of Aunt Lolly trying to get me interested in various young men, especially
one Ralph Allen who lived there most of the time. I was taken up with, or
by, Tracy McCauley, a classmate of Rush's, who was in command of a torpedo
destroyer at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was from Evanston, Illinois, apparantly
the heir of all the McCauleys. For the legend was, he never drew his pay.
Anyway, I saw every play in New York, and ate at every place like Delmonico's
and the old Waldorf. Whenever I wasn't with him I waited up for Uncle Van
and Aunt Lolly who were always out themselves and would bring home guests,
so I was always up and evening-dressed until about two. Then I went to went
to school where I stood up for 8 hours a day. It was strenuous and I was pretty
tired. In February I moved to the Kindergarden Students Residence on 40th
St. and Lexington Ave. where I knew Helen Large and Beatrice Allen.That summer
I went out to Lake Minnetonka to stay with Blance in their new house. Tracy
came there and before going back to Washington and New York I went to visit
him on a trumped up houseparty at his quarters at Great Lakes, his older sister
chaperoning. It was sort of a climax but I could see it was not for me.I went
back to art school and took illustrating as by that time as by that time I
had some things published and wanted to illustrate.I won a scholarship, which
was embarrassing because it was given by a Staten Island Roosevelt, a friend
of my father's and I had to write and thank him without divulging my relationship
and the un-necessity for help. It got to be l9l7 and war. My father went back
on active duty at Medico-Clinurgical Hospital in Philadelphia. I graduated
from school amd went there too.The first winter at 42nd and Chestnut St. in
Dr. Hughes' house. Second winter, Delancey. By that time I was married.
NOTE:
Several poems by Dorothy Morgan Anderson are entered in this computer program
under Phyllis Hoge, her daughter, because of lack of space here.
This poem was written by DAH and published in
The New York Times Sept. 20, 1957.
"TORTOISE"
Box-like, withdrawn, his checkered
shell worn thin,
His wrinkled eyes from which
strange wisdom peers,
Lost now in time, since his dim
origin
In some far pool, he lives his end-
less years.
The seasons scarcely mark his
lingering;
The cool environment of gentle
snow,
The soft moist earth of each re-
turning spring,
THe summer solitude where berries
grow.
No pull of tide, no warmth of sun,
no distance
Call him to venture from this nar-
row space;
Sufficient this for limitless exist-
ence-
A still, calm life, a last abiding
place.
Children of PHILIP HOGE and DOROTHY ANDERSON are:
i. ELEANOR ANDERSON7 HOGE, b. 12 Mar 1919, Philadelphia PA (Source: "The
Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential
Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park
Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969); m. DWIGHT DICKINSON III, 23 May
1942, Oakland, CA (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families -
Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data",
by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept.
1969); b. 13 Dec 1916, Annapolis MD; d. 24 Sep 1997, Newport, RI.
Notes for ELEANOR ANDERSON HOGE:
Went to Vail Deane School graduated 1936, went to Centenary Junior College
THIS IS AN ARTICLE FROM THE ELIZABETH DAILY JOURNAL, 19??
TITLED - NAVAL TRADITION MARKS FAMILIES
____________________________________________________________________
Capt. S. E. Dickinson, of Annapolis, Once Lived Here---Son in Service, Husband
of Former Eleanor Hoge.
____________________________________________________________________
(This is one of the series of articles concerning
distinguished officers of the U. S. Navy hailing from Elizabeth.)
A naval officer connected with the present war
who formerly resided in Elizabeth is Capt. Spencer E. Dickinson, now stationed
at Annapolis. Although he and his family stayed here for only three years,
they were in Elizabeth long enough to form a lasting tie here through the
marriage of their son, Lt. Dwight Dickinson, III, now on sea duty in the Pacific
with the pay and supply corps of the Navy. Lieutenant Dickinson's marriage
to the former Miss Eleanor Hoge not only united him with an Elizabeth family
of long standing, but also created an additional bond, between two families,
both of which were steeped naval tradition.
Lieutenant Dickinson's wife, although not herself
the daughter of naval parents, had nevertheless a thorough knowledge of the
profession. Her mother's father, the late Capt. Frank Anderson, had been a
doctor in the Naval Medical Corps. She discovered also that one of Captain
Anderson's good friends had been Lieutenant Dickinson's grandfather, Capt.
Dwight Dickinson, another naval doctor. In fact the two men had been so closely
associated that there was an arrangement between them to look after each other's
families during their respective absences on long sea voyages.
Captain Anderson, who was graduated from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, could not afford to follow
in his father's footsteps as a Staten Island family doctor. The late Dr. William
Astley Cooper Anderson, became so "land poor" through being presented
with real estate instead of cold cash by his patients, that it was necessary
for Dr. Frank Anderson join to the Navy and thus assure himself of regular
income.
LONG TIME IN YOKOHOMA.
Dr. Anderson's son's career in the Navy took
him to many foreign lands, and the family lived for a considerable time in
Yokohoma, where Captain Anderson was in charge of the U. S. Naval Hospital.
Here the family saw a great deal of Mrs. Hoge's paternal grandfather, Lt.
Commander William George Coffin, a naval officer with a distinguished Civil
War record, who settled down in Yokohoma to be near his transient relatives
for a while.
Lieutenant Commander Coffin had been active in
the Fort Fisher Civil War campaign off North Carolina, when he was in command
of the "U. S. S. Alert." He was later in command of an expedition
to the Arctic to rescue Gen. Adolphus Greely and members of the latter's exploring
party. These men were located and brought safely back to the home on the three
Navy ships in charge of Commander Coffin.
Commander Coffin was a roommate at Annapolis
of Captain "Fighting Bob Evans," of Spanish American War fame, and
Admiral George Dewey was also in the same class, Before his retirement, Commander
Coffin had sailed his ship to the "U. S. S. Charleston" into Manila
harbor and had sent Dewey information about those waters which later proved
valuable in the Manila Bay campaign. Mrs Hoge remembers Dewey and other distinguished
naval officers such as Gridley, stopping off in Yokohoma on their way home
from the Philippines to see her Grandfather Coffin and his naval son-in-law.
Mrs. Hoge also remembers herself as a small child
of 3 experiencing the excitement of christening a ship, the Lighthouse tender
"Azalea." Her Grandfather Coffin was at one time head of the Lighthouse
service on the Eastern seaboard, then under the jurisdiction of the navy,
and subsequently taken over by the Treasury Department.
FREQUENTLY VISITED ELIZABETH.
Mrs. Hoge's mother, the late Mrs. Frank Anderson, frequently visited in Elizabeth
as did her other daughter, Mrs. Rush S. Fay. Mrs. Fay carried on the family
tradition by marrying into the Navy and her husband, the late Lieutenant Commander
Fay, was active in the first World War as navigator of a battleship and later
as commander of a submarine. His son Francis Anderson Fay who spent a winter
here with the Hoge family a few years ago, joined the Navy after the outbreak
of the present war.
Although Mrs. Hoge broke the family pattern by
marrying into the Standard Oil interests instead of the navy, she nevertheless
has kept the family name in the limelight. She is active in literary and artistic
circles here, and was awarded the 1932 award given by the National Association
of American Penwomen for her one-act play entitled "Illusions."
She has frequently designed scenery and properties for Elizabeth dramatic
events and some marionettes which she once made for a puppet show here were
placed on exhibition at the Newark Museum.
Notes for DWIGHT DICKINSON III:
Born in the civilian hospital at Annapolis MD
Graduated AB Harvard College 1940
Career Foreign Service Officer.
Graduate Harvard University
1st commander SC USNR WW Ii in US Foreign Service Rabat Morocco
Ambassador to Togo 1970-1974
Died Sept. 24, 1997 in Newport, RI of Parkinson's
disease
Buried Arlington National Cemetery Grave 8310LH Section 7
Obituary: Washington Post
Dwight Dickinson III
Diplomat
Dwight Dickinson III, 80, a retired Foreign Service
officer who served tours at the United Nations in the 1960s and was U.S. ambassador
to Togo in the early 1970s died Sept. 24 at a hospital in Newport, R.I. He
had Parkinson's disease.
He joined the foreign Service in 1946 and served
in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East before being named to the 1960
U.S. Mission to the United Nations. In 1962, he became the delegation's political
adviser and alternate U.S. representative on the U.N. Trusteeship Council.
He retired in 1974.
Mr. Dickinson, an Annapolis native, was a 1940
graduate of Harvard University. He served aboard Navy ships in the Atlantic
and Pacific during World War II and attained the rank of lieutenant commander.
ii. PHYLLIS HOGE, b. 15 Nov 1926, Elizabeth NJ;
m. (1) JOHN CREIGHTON ROSE, 06 Oct 1951, Elizabeth NJ; b. 27 Jul 1923, Plymouth
WI; m. (2) NOEL JAMES THOMPSON, 10 Jun 1964; m. (3) BACIL KIRTLEY, ABT 1974.
Notes for PHYLLIS HOGE:
Phyllis Hoge PhD
Phyllis Hoge went to Vail Dean School. She graduated
from Lincoln School, Providence, RI, June 1944, then went to Connecticut College;
Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laude, graduated 1948, Duke University - MA 1949, Univ.
of Wisconsin, PhD 1957. She taught at Univ. Wisconsin Extension Division from
1955-62, Milton College 1962-4, Univ of Hawaii 1964-1983. Retired Professor
Emeritus. Taught there part-time 1983-4. She is a Adjunct Profesor at Univ.
of California, San Francisco. She formorly was an Exchange Professor at SUNY
Buffalo, SUNY Bighamton and SUNY Univ. N.M.
NOTE: The following are entered here because of lack of space in this computer
program under the name of Dorothy Anderson Hoge who is the mother of Phyllis
Hoge where this is entered.
POEMS, By: Dorothy Anderson Hoge
TORTOISE
Box-like, withdrawn, his checkered shell worn thin,
His wrinkled eyes from which strange wisdom peers,
Lost now in time, since his dim origin.
In some far pool, he lives his endless years.
The season Scarcely mark his lingering;
The cool environment of gentle snow,
The soft moist earth of each returning spring,
The summer solitude, where berries grow.
No pull of tide, no warmth of sun, no distance,
Call him to venture from this narrow space;
Sufficient this for limitless existence--
A still, calm life, a last abiding place.
published in the NY Times - Sept 20, 1957.
ETERNAL DEBATE
Shall we go by subway or break out the car?
If we go by subway we won't have to park -
The rush hour's dreadful but quicker by far.
Our friends in the suburbs would think we're bizzare,
But we'd be better off when we disembark;
Shall we go by subway or break out the car?
If we go by subway we won't have to park -
THE SMOKIES
"Sometimes, they say, the mountains talk."
Listen, the mountains are talking.
The moon tonight is autumn-chill and low
From peak and crest in distance diapason
Their cloud-borne voices rise and fall and flow
In organ tones no chords of earth can carry,
In speech no ear of man shall ever know.
Theirs is an old communion.
In syllables reverent and grand
Their murmurings come down the streams and valleys.
The sleepless, restless mountains understand
That ageless speech, and they shall talk together
Until God gathers them within his hand.
LAMENT
Half-hidden here her quiet spirit grew
Like mountain laurel in a shady place,
Spreading each year her sheltered bloom anew
In wider reaches of increasing grace.
Clustered like some intricate sweet rhyme,
Accents of loveliness in leafy space,
She blossomed to her ultimate springtime.
So fleetingly did one poised moment spare
Her patterned beauty in a fragile prime
We hardly missed her fragrance from the air,
We hardly knew her gentle breath was still
Her quiet blossoming, so lately fair,
Over and gone - we hardly knew, until
We saw the laurel lying on the hill.
GARDEN BLUES
I'm tired of flowers
Before they have bloomed;
I've weeded for hours-
I'm tired of flowers-
Weeds have devilish powers;
The garden is doomed.
I'm tired of flowers
Before they have bloomed.
NOVEMBER
The earth is still and mute; no blossoms throw
Their scarves about her in a festive dress.
Bare and strong her simple contours flow,
Molding the beauty of her nakedness.
Thus for her robing in white folded snow
She waits with quiet mien, proud, passionless.
THE SECRET
Darkness whispers. There is a hidden presence
In the night. If only it would come a little
Closer we might capture it like a firefly,
Here in our fingers.
In and out of moonlight and swaying shadows,
Night winds, soft winds, carry it as a perfume,
Clothing us with vertigo, drunk with flowers,
Fainting with honey.
What is this dark moth secrecy,
Glancing here and there in the dew-wet lilies,
Starting old ghosts no one imagined waking
From their long sleeping?
IN A GARDEN
So in Eden broke the silent day.
But God was hard to please. "After the night
Of dark chaos," he said, "is there no way
To glorify this burst of golden light?
Is there no joyous creature here who may
Fling high a song to heaven, clear and bright -
A song so clear that heaven shall ring, so bright
My carolling angels shall re-echo 'Day".
Surely for this I said 'Let there be light';
Surely for this I must think up a way."
So God sat down and thought all night - all night.
"I hate to risk a man, but still, I may."
At last the earth-clod breathed, and God said,
"May
Your name be Adam, my first man, and bright
Your song of praise to greet my glorious day."
But Adam stretched and blinked. Said he, "This light
Is harsh; it hurts me. I desire the way
Of moon and stars and lovely langorous night.
And may I not have one to share my night,
My stars, my love?" God said, "Well yes. You may;
I give you Eve." Then Adam's eyes grew bright.
"O God, I promise that each dawning day
Our voices shall lift up to praise your light."
God smiled. "At last Creation's under way."
So Eve and Adam went their lovers' way.
Close lay their bodies in the fragrant night,
Sweet rose their hymns at dawn - until that day
The Serpent tempted Eve and wrecked their bright
Young egos. Out of Eden in dismay
They passed between two swords of flaming light.
And God was lonely. In the cool twilight
He walked beneath the Tree. "Well, anyway,
They've had their love, their long sweet night,
Their Eden, more than other lovers may."
Grieving, he watched the Serpent, sinuous, bright,
Smugly uncoil after a well-spent day.
God mused, the day is dark without their light.
My creatures start tonight on their long way.
And yet, like stars, they may shine strangely bright."
On Thursday, May 2, 1996 Phyllis Hoge Thompson will be receiving 'The 1995
Hawai'i Award for Literature' from Governor Benjamin J. Cayetano. The Hawai'i
Award for Literature is given annually by the State Foundation on Culture
and the Arts with assistance from the Hawaii Literary Arts Council.
Notes for JOHN CREIGHTON ROSE:
John Creighton Rose PhD
res Madison Wisconsin
iii. DOROTHY LANGLEY HOGE, b. 10 Nov 1928, Elizabeth NJ (Source: Birth Cert.
#636 City of Elizabeth NJ.); m. ROSS BRUCE KENZIE, 04 Jun 1953, Elizabeth
NJ (Source: Marriage Cert. City of Elizabeth NJ.); b. 22 Sep 1931, Prattsburg
NY (Source: Birth Cert City of Prattsburg, NY.).
Notes for DOROTHY LANGLEY HOGE:
ITEMS FOR OBITUARY -- -- LHK
Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey
Graduated from The Vail Deane School
Attended Julliard School of Music - Voice Major-Sang with Robert Shaw and
with the Chorus Pro Musica and the Dessoff Choirs of NYC
Volunteer, American Red Cross - Boston
Active on Womens Committee for Blossom Music Center, Cleveland OH
Board of Directors, Saddle River Country Day School, Saddle River, NJ
Member, Junior League
Member, Buffalo Philharmonic Womens Committee
Volunteer, Albright Knox Gallery
Past Board Member, Buffalo Zoological Society
Past Board Memeber, Buffalo Museum of Science
Survivors - [as appropriate]
Sang the lead part in "The Mikado" with
the Mexico City Players and also played the lead in "Iolanthe" with
the Village players in New York, soloist the Choir Calvary Episcopal Church
in New York City.
This is a letter sent to Mr. Hoge by Zella Proffer Saylor 10001 Riggs RoadAdelphi,
Maryland
March 9, 1963
Dear Mr. Hoge,
In spite of my late answer I would like you to know that I appreciate your
note and find it interesting. In the first place, Miss Moody often spoke of
you with warmth. I do not believe at that time she was aware that you were
a descendent of Mahlan Scholfield. Further I have often thought of setting
about to find the records of the Friends Goose Creek MM in Virginia where
many of the Scholfields moved from Maryland. There I thought to begin the
search for living people of the Scholfield family. Now you have begun the
search for me.
I have hope that someone living will have knowledge of Issarchar and Mahland...perhaps
give me significant notes about the Adelphi Mill. I would like to know what
you know of Mahlan and if there are others here who might have old letters
of carry interesting oral tradition.
My laggard answer comes not from lack of interest but low vitality. I helped
to manage the home rule charter drive in Prince George's County which was
defeated by a mere 311 votes last November. It not only left me exhausted
but knee deep in things, both domestic and personal, that had been neglected.
However, in recent weeks I am about to climb on top of things. I am now ready
to push out on affairs more interesting.
Last week I dragged out of the closet three retired suitcases in which I have
deposited my notes on the Adelphi Mill. My notes are not so orderly and beautifully
scribed as Miss Moody would have done -- yet they again make interesting reading.
I am stimulated to be doing more in this research.
As you probably know I am not a geneoligist and have not completed the family
tree as can be done. I went to search out the family a little because there
were so many Scholfields in and out of the Adelphi Mill business that I needed
to know their relationship. I am happy to give you the line of your family
as I know it now. No doubt by the time I have finished the Mill research I
will have more complete information about this family. When I have done all
that I wish, I shall leave with the DAR the family tree as I have developed
it...this for others to use, if they wish.
Mr. Saylor and I plan now to go to England this summer. We shall be driving
about some and perhaps I shall have an opportunity to look up some of the
records on Scholfields. I am using the special spelling used by Mahlan and
Issachar again and again in newspapers - yet there are, as you know, many
variations of the spelling.
Your most distant ancestor that I have found is one John Scholfield. He came
from Brighouse, England, and presented his certificate at the Friends Fall
MM (Fallington, Bucks Co. PA.) in 1718. The certificate was dated 1717 12
28 in Brighouse. There are at least three other goups of Scholfields in early
America. A mother and two or three sons came with the Calverts to Maryland.
Usually they spell the name with a double "o" --Schoolfield. They
were of the gentry, had a coat of arms and were either Catholic of high church--certainly
not Quaker. Another group descended from John of Saddleworth, Yorkshire, Eng.
This wing had wollen mills in New England; one wove the fabric from which
President Monroe's inaugural suit was made. Still another came from Rochdale,
Lancashire. Brighouse, Saddleworth and Rochdale are about twenty miles apart,
They were likely all Quakers--and I might find out something about their relationship
in English record.
John Scholfield from Brighouse appeared sparingly in the PA records. His marriage
is dated there--married to Ann Lenwire 1724 4 3 in the Falls records. His
children were given:
John, Jr. and eight brothers and sisters.
Jane born 1726
Isaac " 1728
David 1730 (died in 3rd month)
Thomas 1732
Samuel 1734
David 1736 At Deer Creek
Phoebe 1739
Jonathan 1742 Moved to Alexandria in 1799
John Jr. was given no birth date. However, after
John Jr. had moved to Maryland he was in a census area in 1776 where he gave
his age as 55. That would indicate that he was born in about 1721. I deduce
from this that his mother likely died and the marriage of John, Sr. in 1724
to Ann Lenwire was a second marriage.
John Jr. moved to Gunpowder MM out of Baltimore
by 1759 by 1771 he was in Frederick County, MD, llater when Montgomery County
was formed-he was there. By 1789 he was in Prince George's County. He died
here in 1795; his wife, Rachel was his executor along with two sons.
John Scholfield, Jr. married Rachel Marshal.
They had six children:
William, born Dec. 14, 1752
Ann " June 2, 1757
Andrew Aug. 10, 1760
Joseph Sept. 11, 1762
Issachar June 17, 1765
Mahlan Oct. 2, 1769
John bought the first 12 acres whereon the Adelphi
Mill stands in 1782. John was a miller; also his eldest son, William. William
lived nearby the millsite; his father in Montgomery. Apparently while the
mill was being built William ran Catherine Digges' mill near Bladensburg.
William died in 1784--only two years after John bought the mill place. William
willed his part of the mill holding to his youngest brother Mahlan, then only
about 16. In a short time John Scholfield sold his half of the mill to Issachar
and Mahlan, These two then controlled the mill, although through the entire
time both Andrew and Joseph served the mill and bought and sold land about
here.
Mahlan Scholfield married Ann Neill of Frederick
Co., MD. They had six children:
Lewis
Elizabeth
Rachel N. who married Isaac Hoge, 1836 9 |