Bogue, T. F.

BOGUE

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Date: 9/2/2008 at 13:43:49

T. F. Bogue

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.133, Knox Twp.)
T. F. Bogue, farmer, P. O. Avoca, born in Vermont in 1832, son of T. F. Bogue, who died in 1865; his mother died in 1872. Subject lived in Vermont until 1859, when he went to California, living there until 1869. The first four years were occupied in mining, the next three in freighting, and the balance he lived in the western part of Utah Territory. Returning to Vermont in 1869, he remained there one year, when he came to this county and bought his present farm from Henry Davenport, paying about $13 per acre for the same. It is located two miles from Avoca; consists of 120 acres, nearly all in cultivation; there were few improvements on the place when he bought it, only twenty acres broken and the land all fenced. He raises corn and hogs principally. Subject was educated in the common schools of Vermont, Castleton and Brandon Seminaries, and married, in 1869, Miss Caroline B. Hall, of Vermont, daughter of David Hall; they have three children, all boys. Subject is a Republican, a member of the Mt. Nebo Lodge, No. 297, A. F. & A. M., and was three years in the Crown Point Iron Mines in New York State. He was through two Indian outbreaks in 1866 and 1867, the worst being that of the Goshoot, the tribe being almost annihilated by Capt. Smith. One of Mr. Bogue's horses was shot by an Indian while he was driving a stage. However, a solider, who was sitting on the seat beside him, soon dispatched "Poor Lo."