HOGE
HOGE
ceed President William S. Reid, D.D., who had
succeeded President Arcliibald Alexander, D.D.,
in 1806. He at once brought to the college the
theological students studying under him at
Shepherdstown. In 1809 the general assembly of
the Presbyterian church founded the Theological
seminary, Princeton, N. J., and in 1813 made Arch-
, ibald Alexander its senior professor. This move-
ment decided the Presbyterians of Virginia to have
a synodical seminary at Hampden-Sidney, and
they made President Hoge the senior professor of
divinity and he filled both offices until his death.
He was married, Aug. 23, 1783, to Elizabeth
Poage. He was an active member of the Amer-
ican Bible society. He received the degree of
S.T.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1810,
and was a trustee of Washington college, 1791-
1807. He was a delegate to the general assembly
of the Presbyterian church at Philadelphia, Pa.,
in July, 1820, and died during its session. Two
sons, James and Samuel Davies, and two grand-
sons, Moses Drury and William James Hoge, be-
came noted Presbyterian divines and prominent
educators. He published: Strictures on a Pam-
phlet by the Rev. Jeremiah Walker, entitled Four-
fold Foundation of Calvinism Examined and
Shaken (1793); Christian Panophj: anAnstverto
Paine' s Age of Reason (1799), and -Sermons (1820).
He died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 5, 1820.
HOGE, Hoses Drury, clergyman, was born at Hampden-Sidney, Va., Sept. 17, 1818; son of the Rev. Samuel Davies and Elizabeth (Lacj-) Hoge; and grandson of the Rev. Dr. Closes and Elizabeth (Poage) Hoge, and of the Rev. Dr. Drury and Anna (Smith) Lacy. His father was professor of science and mathematics in the Ohio State uni- versity; his grand- father, Moses Hoge, was president of Hampden-Sidney col- lege, 1807-20, as was also his grandfather, Drury Lacy, 1789-96. His paternal ances- tors immigrated from Scotland and settled in Frederick county, Va., in 1736, on the do- main of Tliomas, Lord Fairfax; and the Lacys came from England in 1685, Thomas Lacy settling in Virginia. Moses Drury Hoge was graduated from Hampden-Sidney college, Va., in 1839. and from the Union Theological seminary at Hampden-Sidney in 1842, and was assistant pastor to the Rev. Dr. William S. Plumer, of the First Presbyterian church at Richmond, Va., 1848-45.
He was married in 1844 to Susan Morton, daughter
of James D. Wood, of Prince Edward county, Va.
He was ordained by the presbytery of West
Hanover, Va., Feb. 27, 1845, and was pastor of
the Second Presbyterian church at Richmond,
Va., a colony from the First church, 1845-99. He
was a volunteer chaplain in the camp of instruc-
tion (Camp Lee), Richmond, Va., in 1861, and in
1862 ran the blockade from Charleston, S.C.,and
went to England for the purpose of obtaining
Bibles and other religious i-eading for the use of
the Confederate soldiers. He secured from the
Britisli Bible society, with the aid of the Earl of
Shaftesbury, about 300,000 copies of Bibles and
portions of Scripture valvied at £4000, and re-
mained in London during that winter to superin-
tend the shipment of his books by blockade
runners. He was associated in editing the
Ct^itral Presbyterian with Dr. T. V. Moore, 1862-
67. He was a delegate to the Evangelical Alliance
at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1873; to the international
meetings of the Evangelical Alliance in New
York in 1873; to the general assembly, south,
St. Louis, Mo., in 1875, when he presided as
moderator, and to the general assembly in
Savannah, Ga., in 1876, where he advocated and
carried against great opposition the establishment
of " fraternal relations " with the Presbyterian
church, north. He was a delegate to the Pan
Presbyterian council in Edinburgh, Scotland,
in 1877, and in London, England, in 1888, and
was president of the American section of that
council, 1884-96. He was also a delegate to the
Alliance of the Reformed churches of the world,
wliich met in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1884;
and to the conference of the Evangelical Alliance
in Boston, Mass., in 1889, and was a member of
the International Sundaj^-school lesson commit-
tee. The Second Presbyterian 'church celebrated
Dr. Hoge's forty-fifth anniversary as pastor, in the
Academy of Music at Richmond, Va., Feb. 27,
1890, and on Feb. 27, 1895, the city, in connection
with the church, celebrated his fiftieth anniver-
sary as pastor. He declined the presidency of
Hampden-Sidney college, to which position he
was elected in 1856, and also that of Davidson
college, N.C., to which he was elected in 1860,
He received the degree of D.D. from Hampden-
Sidney college in 1854; that of LL.D. from
Washington and Lee university in 1886, and that
of D.D, from the College of New Jersey in 1894.
On Feb. 5, 1899, a union memorial service was
held, in which pastors of all Protestant denomi-
nations took part, also the Jewish rabbi, and to
wliich there was a large attendance of the peojile
of the city. He died at Richmond, Va., Jan. 6, 1899.
HOQE, Peyton Harrison, clergyman, was
born at Hampden-Sidney. Va., Jan. 6. 1858: son
of William James and Virginia (Harrison) Hoge;