F.K. Hogue |
F.K. Hogue
Lucas Co, OH
F. K. HOGUE, biography / Lucas County, Ohio
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File contributed for use by Ohio Biographies Project
by Janet Wilkinson Schwartz (wilkinschw@aol.com)
April 2003
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A History of Northwest Ohio, Vol. III, Nevin O. Winter. Chicago and New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1917.
F. K. HOGUE is one of Toledo's oldest and best known real estate and insurance men. He has had a varied career, beginning as a lumberman in Northern Michigan, and he also studied and practiced medicine several years. His experience has been very extensive in insurance lines, and for several years he represented some of the large companies both in Ohio and Indiana. He is now head of the firm F. K. HOGUE & Son, with offices in the Nicholas Building. His associate is his son, C. W. HOGUE.
Mr. HOGUE was born in Erie County, Ohio, August 20, 1851. His father, WILLIAM HOGUE, was also a native of Ohio, was a farmer during his active lifetime, and finally removed to Toledo, where he lived retired with his son until his death. He was a stanch republican and an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
F. K. HOGUE was the only child of his parents. He attended the public schools in Erie County, Ohio, and completed his literary education in Olivet College in Michigan. He started out to earn his own living in the lumber woods of Northwestern Michigan and the Northern Peninsula. He spent two years there and had experience in every phase of lumbering and logging. While in that district he witnessed the disastrous fire of Mariette, Wisconsin, and was one of the party who went to the rescue of the victims and gathered up the dead and wounded. His next experience began at St. Paul, Minnesota, from which city he took a raft of logs down the Mississippi River. Returning to Escanaba, Michigan, he spent another two years in the lumber woods, and then came back to his father's farm in Fulton County, Ohio. Besides farming he taught a couple of terms of school in the county, and while there read medicine with Dr. L. A. BASSETTE. He pursued these studies four years, was granted a license to practice, and rendered his professional service in this line at Swanton, Ohio. After two years he gave up medicine as an uncongenial pursuit and not long afterward took up real estate and insurance. He was first in this business at Swanton, and subsequently was appointed assistant state agent for the Continental Insurance Company. He subsequently removed his headquarters as representative of the company to Westerville, Ohio, and later was sent as state agent of Indiana to Warsaw, Indiana, where he was located a year and eight months. Mr. HOGUE then became general agent of the American Fire Insurance Company of Cleveland. For two years he was general agent for the Millers Insurance Company at Minneapolis.
He finally located in Toledo and combined the real estate and insurance business and in those lines he has built up a large and profitable clientage. He has also become interested in various business affairs in the city and is one of the most substantial citizens. Mr. HOGUE is a Mason, a past grand and past chief patriarch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a Knight of Pythias. In politics he supports the republican party and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In June, 1883, Mr. HOGUE married Miss FLORA A. BLAKE at her home in Fulton County. Two children were born to them, but the only one now living is CLYDE W., associated with his father in business, and educated in the Ohio State University. CLYDE W. married Miss BESSIE DARE of Toledo, and they are the parents of two children, ADELAIDE and RICHARD.
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