William Hogg (abt. 1765)

Biography

When twenty years of age (in 1804) he (George Hogg) came to Brownsville, Pa., at the request of his uncle, William Hogg, where he established his home, and as a merchant created a very large and lucrative business.

During his business career he, with his uncle, William Hogg, of Brownsville, Pa. , established large ;business-houses in Pittsburgh as Breading & Hogg, in whoiesale dry goods, and Dalzell, Taylor & Co., in wholesale groceries, and fifteen different establishments of merchandise- and commission-houses in Ohio, together with a forwarding-house at Sandusky City, that state, with which was connected a number of vessels running on Lake Erie, and also a line of boats on the Ohio canal connected with their business houses at Newark, Ohio. Mr. Hogg, with the cooperation of others, aided materially in the building of the bridge over the Monongahela river at Brownsville and Bridgeport, and was one of the original stockholders and managers of the Monongahela Navigation company (slackwater), through whose enterprise tlie great body of the coal which is mined along the Monongahela river and exported finds its way to the southern cities, New Orleans in particular. In 1828 he erected the Brownsville Glassworks, and supervised their operations for some years, ultimately disposing of them. He was one of the original corporators establishing the Allegheny Cemetery company, and a director in the Bank of Pittsburgh, an institution in which bis uncle, William Hogg, was one of the original movers. established in 1810-14. Mr. Hogg was confirmed in his youth according to the usage of the Established Church of England, and through life was a consistent, devout and liberal member of that communion. By the record of Christ Church, Brownsville, we find the following:

In the year 1813 Rev. Mr. Clay succeeded Rev, Mr. Kemper, afterward Bishop Kemper, as missionary of the Advancement society in Western Pennsylvania. He assisted to build a church upon the lot of ground which they already had in possession. July 27, 181:3, twelve trustees were appointed: Jacob Bowman, William Hogg, George Hogg,Robert Clarke, Charles Wheeler, John Wise, Basil Brasher, Basil Brown, Charles Ford, Henry Stump, Thomas Brown and Henry B. Goe. The secretary chosen upon this occasion was George Hogg In 1823 the church-building was completed, and 1825 was consecrated by Bishop White ; soon after this a parsonage was erected. Mr. Hogg was warden of this church until he left Brownsville, in 1843. When he came to Pittsburgh he and his family were connected with St. Andrew's Church, where he was warden until his death. He was one of the incorporators of the Western Pennsylvania hospital, and his portrait, with that of his colleagues, hangs in the entrance-hail at Dixmont.

Sources

• Cushing, Thomas. History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Part II., Page. 225-226 (A. Warner & Co., Chicago, 1889)