History of Athens, (Athens County) Ohio United States of America

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Addison Hogue, educator, was born at Athens, Ohio, Aug. 29, 1849; son of the Rev. William James and Mary (Ballard) Hoge, and grandson of Samuel Davies and Elizabeth (Lacy) Hoge. He prepared for college at Richmond, Va., and was graduated at Hampden-Sidney college in 1869. He was a student at the University of Virginia in languages and mathematics, 1869-72; professor of Greek at Hamlpden-Sidney, 1872-86; studied in Germany, 1883-85; was professor of Greek in the University of Mississippi, 1886-89; professor of Greek and Latin in the sae institution, 1889-93. In 1889 he changed the spelling of his name'to Hogue, to show the hard sound of "g" in Hoge. He became professor of Greek in Washington and Lee university in 1893. He was married in 1882 to Emily M., daughter of the Rev. Dr. B. M. Smith. He is the author of: Irregular Verbs of Attic Prose (1889).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Harlan Hoge Ballard, educator, was born at Athens, Ohio, May 25, 1853. He was educated at the Detroit, Mich., high school, and at Williams college, Mass., from which institution he was graduated as A.B. in 1874, and later received the degree of A.M. In 1875 he became principal of the Lenox (Mass.) high school, holding the position five years, and resigning to accept that of principal of the Lenox academy, where he remained from 1880 to 1886, when he was made librarian of the Berkshire athen?um. In 1875 he founded and became president of the Agassiz association, an organization which spread from a school in Lenox to every part of the world. Professor Ballard was elected secretary of the Berkshire historical society and a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. He edited the Swiss Cross and the Observer, and is author of "Three Kingdoms"; a "Handbook of the Agassiz Association "; "Open Sesame "; "Handbook of Blunders designed to Prevent 1,000 Common Blunders in Writing and Speaking" (1885); "The World of Matter. A Guide to the Study of Chemistry and Mineralogy" (1892); and with S. Proctor Thayer, "The American Plant Book ," (1879).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Edward Raymond Ames, M. E. bishop, was born at Athens, O., May 20, 1806. In 1828 he entered the Ohio university at Athens, and remained there for two years, earning his board and tuition by teaching. He was the founder of a school at Lebanon, Ill., which afterwards grew into McKendree college. In 1830 he entered the itinerant ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church; in 1832 was ordained deacon, and in 1834 elder. At the general conference held in Baltimore in 1840, he was a delegate, and was afterwards chosen corresponding secretary to the missionary society for the south and west. In 1844 he was elected presiding elder in the Indiana conference, and served in that capacity for eight years. He received the degree of A.M. in 1844 from the State university of Indiana. In 1848 he declined an election as president of Asbury university. He was made a bishop in 1852, and died April 25, 1879.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Earl Cranston, M.E. bishop, was born at Athens, Ohio, June 27, 1840. He descended paternally from Gov. John Cranston (1626-1680), and maternally from James Montgomery, an early immigrant to Ohio from Ireland. He received his preparatory education from his stepfather, J. W. Longborn of Jackson, Ohio, and in 1861 was graduated from Ohio university. In the same year he enlisted in the Union army and was appointed 1st sergeant and then1st lieutenant of Company C, 3d Ohio volunteer infantry. He was subsequently commissioned adjutant of the 1st battalion, 2d West Virginia cavalry, and finally captain of the 60th Ohio volunteers. He served until June, 1863, leaving the service on account of broken health. He began the study of the law but in 1867 entered the ministry, uniting with the Ohio conference of the M.E. church. He served charges in Marietta, Portsmouth, Columbus, and Cincinnati, Ohio; Jacksonville, Ill.; Evansville, Ind.; and Denver Col.; and was for four years presiding elder in the Rocky Mountain country. He was one of the founders and promoters of the Denver university; was elected a manager of the Western Methodist .book concern in 1884, 1888 and 1892; became treasurer and member of the managing board of the Freedmen's aid and southern education society, and treasurer of the M.E. church (at large). He was a trustee of the Ohio university from 1888, received the degree of A.M. from that institution in 1866, and that of D.D. from Allegheny college, Pa., and Cornell college, Iowa, in 1381. In 1896 he was elected and consecrated as bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church and was stationed at Portland, Ore.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor