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James Irvin Hogue went by the name of Irvin, his mother's maiden name. Unfortunately, his name has been miss-transcribed as James J. Hogue by early researchers, and copied as such in a variety of sources; see Source Notes section. His signature (as executor of the will of Robert St. Clair) appears below.

Ancestry chart segment

 Generation 5          Generation 6            Generation 7
 
                                           +-- James Hoge
                                           |   (1766-1840)
                   +-- James Irvin Hogue --+ 
                   |   (1796-1877)         |
 Elizabeth Hogue --+                       +-- Mary Irvin
 (~1832-1906)      |                           (????-????)
                   +-- Margaret St. Clair
                       (1796-????)      
                                       

Sources: ^[6][14]

Children

(all children with Margaret St. Clair)

Places of Residence

Note: Brady Twp. was created from old Slippery Rock Twp; James I. Hogue lived "on the homestead of his father, and died there".^[5]

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	1830 United States Federal Census, Slippery Rock Twp, Butler Co, PA, page 1. Families headed by: James I. Hoge: 1 male <5, 1 male 10-15, 1 male 30-40, 1 female <5, 2 females 5-10, 1 female 10-15, 1 female 30-40. This is James Irvin Hogue and Margaret St. Clair and their older children. James Hogue: 1 male 60-70, 1 female 60-70.
2	1840 United States Federal Census, Slippery Rock Township, Butler County, PA, Page 7, line 5 lists the family of James I. Hoge as containing 1 male under 5 [John J.], 1 female under 5 [Sarah], 1 female between 5 and 10 [Elizabeth], 1 male between 10 and 15 [Thomas], 1 female between 10 and 15 [Martha], two females between 15 and 20 [some combination of Rachel, Mary, or Jane], one male between 20 and 30 [Archibald], one male between 40 and 50 [James, Sr.], and one female between 40 and 50 [Margaret], for a total of 10 people in the household. Two of the occupants are working as farmers [probably James and Archibald]. This census is not dated.
3	1850 United States Federal Census, Slippery Rock Township,Butler County, PA, Page 317, lines 7-13 lists James I. Hoge, 54, married to Margaret Hoge, 53. They are listed as living with five children: daughter Martha Hoge, 22; son Thomas Hoge, 20; daughter Elizabeth Hoge, 17; daughter Sarah Hoge, 11; and son John I. Hoge, 9. James and Thomas are listed as farmers. Everyone was born in PA. Sarah and John are listed as having attended school in the census year. The next family listed on this census page is that of James and Margaret's eldest son, Archibald Hogue, 32, suggesting that they lived on adjacent property. This census is dated August 9, 1850.
4	1860 United States Federal Census, Brady Township, Butler County, PA, Page 14, lines 15-18 lists James I. Hoge, 64, married to Margaret Hoge, 64; son John I. Hoge, 20; Cardalia Hoge, 4. James I. Hoge is a farmer. Everyone was born in PA. The preceeding family on this page is that of James I. Hoge's son, Archibald Hoge, suggesting that they were neighbors. Two houses down is the entry for the family containing Richard Hines, Jr. and Elizabeth Brandon. This census is dated 8 Jun 1860. . Note: Per the will of James I. Hogue, Cordelia is a granddaughter, the daughter of Rachel Hogue Douglass.
5	1870 United States Federal Census, Brady Twp, Butler Co, PA Pg 9. Census dated 19 Aug 1870. Lines 26-28 list James Hogue, age 73, farmer $5000 real, $1500 personal property, parents foriegn born; Margaret, age 72, keeping house; Cordelia, age 14, attended school. On lines 23-26 are Archibald Hogue, 51, farmer, $6500 real, $1020 presonal property; Matilda, 46, keeping house; Mary, 21. All are born in PA. Also on the page is a family headed by Isaac and Nancy Covert (lines 29-36). Per will of James I. Hogue, Cordelia is a granddaughter, the daughter of Rachel Hogue Douglass.
6	The Descendants of Robert Hoge or Hogg of Tuscarora Valley, Pennsylvania Including the Families of Lytle, McCullough, McKee, Sturgeon, Dunbar, Graham, Stitt, Harnish, Vance, Robinson, Potts, McBride. Being a copy of a manuscript prepared by Dr. Egle about 1900 for publication in a second volume of his Pennsylvania Genealogies. Dr. Egle died before this material was published. The original manuscript was purchased from Miss Catherine I. Egle by Leonard Lytle of Detroit, MI, and a copy with additional matter made by him in August, 1921. Butler Area Public Library, Butler PA p.2: Robert Hogg or Hoge, born Nov. 1721 in South Scotland, emigrated early to County Down,Ulster, Ireland. He came to America in 1752, and in the spring of 1754 located on a tract of land in Tuscarora Valley, then in Cumberland Co., now Juniata Co., PA....He died there 25 Jan. 1798, aged 80 years. His wife Letitia, born June 1724 in Northern Ireland, died March 8, 1812, Juniata County PA. Both are buried in the McKee graveyard. They had 7children (see text) including the 7th child, James, born Jan. 1766, who maried Mary Irvin. Notes by Leonard Lytle: 1) The will of Robert Hogg is on file at Lewistown, PA it mentions wife Letitia, son James, daughters Ina, Sarah, Jane Robinson, Martha and Mary McKee; grandchildren Letitia McCullough and Ann McCullough, Robert, George and Jane Graham, Robert Hogg, James Irwin Hogg. 2) At Lewiston, PA is recorded the following deed: "Robert and Letitia Hogge of Milford to their daughter Jean Robinson and Alexander her husband 50 acres adjoining William Graham and McCollough's heirs, 1793, signed Robert Hogg, and Letitial Hogg, her X mark. p. 8: " James Hoge (son of Robert) born January 1766, in Tuscarora Val.; d. March 22, 1840 in Slipping Rock (sic) Twp., Butler Co. His father gave him a farm of 200 acres upon which he resided until 1798, when he removed to Butler County, locating four miles from the county (...own/line?). Mr. Hoge m. Sept. 1789, Mary Irvin, b. in Tuscarora Valley. Six children listed (see text) including 3rd child James Irvin, b. 1796; resided on the farm of his father, and there died; m. Margaret St. Clair of Butler Co.; a son Archibald resides on the old homestead.	(See Text)
7	1883 History of Butler County Pa, by Waterman. p. 363 re. Brady Twp.: " James I. Hoge settled in 1797 in the northeastern part of this township. His children were Archibald, Thomas, John, Mary, Jane, Martha, Rachel, Elizabeth and Sarah. Mr. Hoge died in his eighty-fourth year. He was born east of the mountains." p. 340 "Archibald St. Clair, of Irish birth, settled one mile west of Unionville, about the year 1801. His children (included) Margaret (Hoag)...Mrs. Hoag is the only survivor.
8	The Wimer Family by Paul W. Myers,self-published, p. 7. " Samuel (Wimer) Jr. in about 1852, married Elizabeth Hoge, a daughter of James J. Hoge, Deputy Surveyor of Butler County."
9	Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 23, #2, Fall 1996, p.51. "West Liberty was surveyed Feb. 13, 1829. In 1845 John and Jacob Covert resurrected the village. When the plat was recorded in 1847 the lot owners were...James J. Hoge (& others). The place at one time was known as Bulger which was the name of the post office.
10	History of Butler County , p. 9229 (photocopy forwarded by Ann Badger without reference); title, & township not identified. "JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. The following persons have been chosen as Justices of the Peace in this township, since 1840...1840 James I. Hoge; 1845, James I. Hoge..."
11	Butler, A Pictorial History, by Stephen M.Pozar & Jean B.Purvis, Donning Co., Virginia Beach, 1980, p. 214. "West Liberty was laid out as a town in 1829 by James Hoge, a surveyor. J. A. McKee says it did not make headway as a settlement until "resurrected" in 1845 by John & Jacob Covert, who recorded a plat of the villate. The town was incorporated as a borough in 1903."
12	Will of James I. Hoge, Brady Twp., Butler Co. PA. Willbook F pg 311, 1877. Copied 1991 from microfilm, Butler Public Library. James I. Hoge, wife Margaret, Daughters Jane Kelly, Martha Taggert, Rachel Douglass & Elizabeth Wimer; granddaughter Cordelia L. Douglass; executors John Humphreys, Etq. & mathias Mayer, Esq. Witnesses David Keefer, John Staff, John Kocher, Jr. Registrar J.D. Anderson. Signed 3 Feb. 1876. Filed 12 Feb. 1877	(See complete text)
13	Personal correspondence from Elizabeth Wilson Williams]	N/A
14	Manuscript of John T. Wilson researched 1975-1985, including personal knowledge and interviews of McDeavitt cousins and of his aunts Stella Wimer (McNeese), Lizzy Wimer (McDeavitt), Meda Wimer (McDeavitt), and Mary Gahagan. John T. Wilson recorded that his gr-gr-grandfather's name was "Urvin Hogue", a name possibly given to him verbally by one of his aunts, along with the information that he was a surveyor. The actual spelling is "Irvin", as he was named for his mother's family. The manuscript of John T. Wilson lists Elizabeth Hogue (7-19-1832 to 1-18-1906) married to Samuel Wimer, Jr. (1825) as his great-grandparents.
15	Book: West Liberty Cemetery, Brady Township, Butler County PA, 1966 by Dwight Cooper, RD #1 Box 100, East Harlansburg Rd. New Castle PA 16101. Exerpt as reported in Western Penna. Genealogy Society Quarterly Vol 23 #2, 1996 p.51. "Brady Township was formed 29 March 1854 of portions of Slippery Rock and Connoquenessing townships...Early settlers in the township area were Luke Covert and his son John, James Campbell, Alexander Irvine...West Liberty was surveyed Feb. 13, 1829. In 1845 John and Jacob Covert resurrected the village. When the plat was recorded in 1847 the lot owners were James Vogan, James J. Hoge(sic), Charles Coulter, Robert Campbell, Conrad Snyder, John Stephenson, John Fagan, John Craig, John Covert, William McCannon, William McClymonds, David McJunkin, John Boyle, Thomas B. Evans, and Isaac Cornelius. The place at one time was known as Bulger which was the name of the post office."

Source notes

• James Irvin Hogue is listed in much of the Hogue/Hogg research as James J. Hoge (The Wimer Family, by Paul W. Myers; Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 23 #2, Fall 1996, etc.) James I. Hoge appears in the 1860 census, Brady Twp., Butler Co. PA, and the script does appear to read as James J. Hoge. However, "J" and "I" were often written identically at that time, and any present day researcher, reading the name without resort to other sources, would transcribe the initial as a "J".

From the JOTS publication of the Western Penna Genealogical Society, vol.XV, #1, p.7: "If you've read old census or other handwritten records, you've noticed that "I" and "J" are often written identicaly. Paul Talbott sends a copy of the McLean Co. Ill. Geneal. Soc. Newsletter with an articl on that, saying that until well into the 1800's the two were used interchangably as vowels or consonants. It also states that modern German handriting uses the same character in capitals, although differs in lower case."

• John T. Wilson's research in the 1980's included interviews of his Wimer aunts. (Elizabeth Hogue, his great grandmother, was the wife of Samuel Wimer, Jr.) During the course of this research, he was told that Elizabeth Hogue's father's name was Irvin Hogue. (This verbal communication was transcribed by him as "Urvin" Hogue). Further clarification was found in a manuscript copy in the family history room of the Butler Library. Prepared by Dr. Egle for a second volume of his "Pennsylvania Genealogies", but not published before his death, it was compiled in 1921 by Leonard Lytle of Detroit Michingan, from the original manuscript, purchased from Miss Catherine I. Egle. In this manuscript, James Irwin Hogg is listed as the son of James Hogg and Mary Irvin. (The Irwin/Irvin spellings suggest that the name may have been spelled both ways but the "w" pronounced as "v").

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