George A. Hogg, III

"Biographical Sketch" - George A. Hogg was a son of George E. and Sarah Ann McClurg-Hogg, of Brownsville, Pa., his father, a member of the firm of, Breading Shipton & Hogg, wholesale dealers in dry goods and groceries, who in addition to owning several stores in the Pittsburgh district, also operated mines there. Mr. Hogg was born near Scottdale, Pa., Feb. 2, 1847, and was educated by a private tutor and in Dunlap Creek Academy, and then graduated from Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in 1867. He was variously employed until 1870, when he entered the employ of R.C. Totten, operator of a foundry, and machine-shop, in the capacity of shipping clerk. After four years in the foundry, he took up farming near Scottdale, Westmoreland county, and was so engaged for fifteen years, during which time, his uncle N.B. Hogg, had become a partner in the foundry and machine shop, formerly owned by, R.C. Totten, where George A. Hogg had obtained his mechanical training. In 1899, he left his farm, and took charge of the Totten & Hogg Foundry, located at Twenty-fourth street and Railroad avenue, Pittsburgh, and in 1903, purchased the interests of his employers. Until 1909, he engaged in the manufacture of rolling mill machinery, rolls engines, and other mill apparatus, under the title of the George A. Hogg Iron and Steel Foundry Company. This plant had experienced numerous changes in ownership and direction, having been first, the property of the Pennock & Hart Company, then of R.C. Totten, subsequently Totten & Hogg, and next, of George A. Hogg. Under Mr. Hogg's management, a strong and vigorous enterprise had been built up, with a maximum personnel of two-hundred, and under his capable, far-sighted supervision, it became a valuable property. Mr. Hogg's interests after his retirement, in 1909, were confined largely to his property possessions in Westmoreland county, and in the West, in Nebraska and Montana. For many years he was associated with the Duquesne Club, and let his aid and influence, to everything of progress and improvement in his city. He was a member for many years of, Calvary Episcopal Church, and was a Christian gentleman in the highest sense of the word. Mr. Hogg married in 1888, Elizabeth Porter, daughter of George Porter, of McClellandtown county, Pa. and they were the parents of six children: 1. George Porter, of Miles City, Mont; 2. Mildred Elizabeth, the wife of John Brokaw McCormick, of Pittsburgh, who are the parents of two daughters: Barbara Elizabeth, and Jacqueline; 3. Sarah Constance, at home; 4. Mary Caroline; 5. Alice Trevor; 6. William Cecil. The family home is a splendid residence, built by Mr. Hogg, on Shady avenue, Pittsburgh, East End. Mr. Hogg died in the Lankenau Hospital, of Philadelphia, Sept. 25, 1920. He will be remembered in Pittsburgh, as a man of strict integrity and uncompromising uprightness, direct and sincere in manner, closely observant of the duties of good citizenship. His city has profited and received impetus in its onward march to industrial supremacy, through the combined efforts of men of his type, and their loss, is more than the grief of a family or of friends.

SOURCE (Google Books): "History of Pittsburgh and Environs, Volume 1", pages, 167-168, by American Historical Company, 1922.
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Buried in Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA.

SOURCES: death certificate & the Allegheny Cemetery website

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