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

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General George Washington Hoge was born near Belmont, Belmont county, Ohio, February 22d, 1832. His parents, Asa Hoge and Asenath Ann (Mead) Hoge, were natives of Loudon county, Virginia. His grandfathers were Isaac Hoge and Samuel Mead. His father, yet living, has resided in the State from territorial times. His earlier years were passed on the paternal farm where his father had settled when the surrounding country was a sparsely settled wilderness. He attended the common schools located in the neighborhood of his home, and was also educated partly in a private school at Barnesville, Belmont county. In 1852, 1853 and 1854 he taught in public schools in the counties of Guernsey and Belmont. He then commenced the study of law in the office of Hon. Benjamin S. Cowen, St. Clairsville, and was admitted to the bar, December 3d, 1855. He was then professionally occupied in Belmont county until January, 1862, when he was appointed Chief Clerk of the Secretary of the State of Ohio, where he remained until his enlistment in the Union army, July 8th, 1862. He entered the service in the 126th Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. On organizing Company B, in August, 1862, he was elected First Lieutenant, and mustered as such. June 25th, 1863, he was promoted to a Captaincy, and served in Virginia and Maryland until transferred, in November, 1864, to the command of the 183d Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. From July, 1863, until March, 1864, he was with the 3d Army Corps, and subsequently was attached to the 3d Division of the 6th Army Corps. He commanded his regiment in several engagements and was three times wounded, while upon two other occasions his clothes were pierced with bullets. On the evening of the 5th and the morning and evening of the 6th of May he was engaged in the battles of the Wilderness; served at Spottsylvania, May 9th to the 12th; was at Cold Harbor, June 1st and 3d, and on the 22d at Petersburg; participated in the movement at Monocacy, July 9th; was present. September 19th, at Opequam, or Winchester; and, September 21st and 22d, took part in the action at Fisher's Hill. On October 19th he served at Cedar Run, and was a participant also at the battles of Franklin and Nashville, or Brentwood Hills, Tennessee, in November and December. March 13th, 1865, for gallant and meritorious conduct, he was promoted from the Colonelcy of the 183d Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry to the rank of Brigadier-General by brevet. He was mustered out of the service in July, 1865, and subsequently resumed the practice of the law in connection with his father-in-law, with whom he was associated until December 22d, 1867. When in partnership with General B. R. Cowen, now Assistant Secretary of the Interior, he established in Bellaire the private bank with which he is still connected. The present style of the house is Hoge, Sheets & Co., and was formerly Hoge & Cowen, the former name, owing to the addition of new partners, having been adopted July 1st, 1869. He is also President of the Belmont Glass Works and of the Bellaire Street Railroad Company, an enterprise projected and put into operation in a great measure through his efforts. He is Register in Bankruptcy for the Sixteenth Congressional District, having been appointed to this position by Salmon P. Chase, Chief-Justice. He has also been several times a member of the City Council and of the Board of Education, and has held various other public offices. He is interested in the building and real estate development of his town, and was an efficient coworker in the establishment of the Bellaire Manufacturing Company. He is interested also in the National Glass Manufacturing Company, and was instrumental in securing the establishment of the Bellaire Waterworks. He was married, December 10th, 1857, to Mary T. Cowen, daughter of Hon. Benjamin R. Cowen.

From: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century. Columbus, OH, USA: Galaxy Publishing Co., 1876.

History of Belmont, (Belmont County) Ohio

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