Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Hogue MD, Davis A. March 30, 1854 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

DAVIS A. HOGUE, M. D.,
a resident physician of Altoona since 1891, and who was for sixteen years
prior to that time one of the most prominent and successful physicians of
Clearfield county, is a son of Joseph and Sarah Ann (Calwell) Hogue, and was
born in Union county, Pennsylvania, March 30, 1854.  During the early years
of the last century, religious persecution distracted Scotland, and many left
its shores and came to America, where they could enjoy the freedom of
religious worship.  Among the number who bid farewell to their Scottish homes
on this account and settled in the province of New Jersey, was a Mr. Hogue, of
whom Dr. Davis A. Hogue is a lineal descendant.  This Mr. Hogue, like the
majority of the Scottish Dissenters and Covenanters who came to America to
secure religious freedom, was interested in the intellectual education of his
children as well as in their moral and religious training.  It is most
probable, but not certain, that he married in his native land of Scotland,
and one of his sons, of whom there is nothing preserved to show whether he
was a native of the old world or born in the new, entered Princeton College,
from which he was graduated.  From this son, whose Christian name cannot be
obtained, and of whose history, after leaving Princeton, but little is known,
beyond the fact that he was a good citizen, was descended Joseph Hogue, father
of Dr. Hogue.  Joseph Hogue was born in 1809, in Northumberland county, in
which he was reared and received his education.  Leaving school he was
engaged during the remainder of his life in the general mercantile business
in Northumberland and adjoining counties.  He was a whig during the earlier
years of his life, and when that party went down under the reverses that it
suffered in 1852, he identified himself with its successor, the Republican
party, which he supported until his death.  He was appointed as a postmaster
under a whig administration, and held that office continuously for a period
of over thirty years.  He was a man of business ability, and died in 1868,
when in the fifty-ninth year of his age.  He married Sarah A. Calwell, and to
them was born a family of six children, four sons, and two daughters who died
when quite young.  The sons are:  Daniel C., a former nail manufacturer, but
now a lumber dealer of Watsontown, Northumberland county, who served nine
months in the 131st Pennsylvania infantry, in whose ranks he remained until
the close of the war; Dr. Davis A.; Edmund B., who has been in the employ of
railroad companies for several years, and is now serving as a conductor on
the Wilkesbarre railroad; and Dr. James H., of Altoona, whose sketch appears
elsewhere in this volume.
      Davis A. Hogue spent his boyhood days at home, and received his
education in the common schools at Loretta, Cambria county.  Leaving school
he read medicine in the office of his uncle, Dr. G. W. Calwell, of Glen Hope,
Clearfield county, and then entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia,
from which institution he was graduated in the class of 1875.  Immediately
after graduation he returned to Glen Hope, where he practiced with his uncle,
Dr. Calwell, for one year, and then went to Maidera, in Clearfield county,
where he remained for two years.  At the expiration of that time he removed
from Maidera to Houtzdale, a town of nearly two thousand inhabitants, in the
same county, where he soon built up a large practice, and remained there for
thirteen years.  In the spring of 1891 he came to Altoona, as being a wider
field for the practice of his profession than what he had enjoyed at
Houtzdale, and his expectations have not been disappointed, as he has already
a good and rapidly increasing practice.
      On November 3d, of the Centennial year, Dr. Hogue was united in
marriage with Maggie Feltwell, daughter of Joshua Feltwell, of La Jose,
Clearfield county.  To their union have been born three children, two sons
and one daughter:  Grace, Dan and Davis (deceased).
      Dr. Davis A. Hogue is a democrat in politics.  The encouraging success
which he has won in Altoona has been secured by his ability and skill as a
physician, and is such as attended his long and active practice in Clearfield
county.

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