Thomas_Elisha_Hogg

Thomas Elisha Hogg

Thomas Elisha Hogg

American writer and scholar


Thomas Elisha Hogg (June 19, 1842 – September 1880) was an American teacher, lawyer, editor and writer, brother of James Stephen Hogg, Governor of Texas, and uncle of Ima Hogg.[1] Ima was named from an epic Civil War poem, The Fate of Marvin, that Thomas Hogg had written.[2] He used the pseudonym Tom R. Burnett.[1]


References

  1. "Hogg, Thomas Elisha". The Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association (TSHA). January 19, 2008. Retrieved March 14, 2008.
  2. "Hogg, Ima". The Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association (TSHA). January 19, 2008. Retrieved March 12, 2008.

Further reading

  • C. A. Bridges, History of Denton, Texas, from Its Beginning to 1960 (Waco: Texian Press, 1978).
  • Robert C. Cotner, James Stephen Hogg: A Biography (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1959).
  • Dallas Times Herald, February 23, 1878.
  • Denton Record-Chronicle, August 2, 1953.
  • Hattie Joplin Roach, A History of Cherokee County (Dallas: Southwest, 1934).

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