Hogate, Judson B.

HOGATE

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 8/20/2008 at 13:52:39

Judson B. Hogate

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.120, James Twp.)
Judson B. Hogate, farmer, P. O. Oakland, was born in Salem, Columbiana Co., Ohio, September 24, 1853, son of Nicholas and Anna (Dolbow) Hogate, he born in December 1816, in New Jersey; she born in Delaware in 1818. They were farmers, and are now living on the old homestead in Jefferson County, this State, where they have lived for twenty-eight years. They had five children - two boys and three daughters. Our subject received his education in Jefferson County, this State, and began life for himself by clerking one year in a grocery store in Ottumwa, Iowa, after which he went to farming. He was married, February 20, 1873, in Fairfield, this State, to Anna Moore, born in Jefferson County in 1855, daughter of Robert and Sarah Ann (Stewart) Moore, he born in Indiana in 1817, she in Pennsylvania in 1828. In the month following his marriage, our subject came to this county, locating in Pleasant Township. In September, 1878, he purchased eighty acres in James Township, Section 31, paying $11.25 per acre, forty acres of which were already broken. In 1879, he bought forty acres more at $14 per acre, and in 1881 purchased another forty acres at $17 per acre. He now has a good farm of 160 acres, which is all under cultivation. He engages in general farming, and keeps a stock of Norman horses. He has filled several township offices. In religion he is Evangelical, and in politics he is a Democrat. He has one child, Robert Edward, born August 13, 1874. Mr. Hogate's father and brother Jesse were in the late civil war.