came to Fresno County eight years ago, and engaged in mining and lumbering at Fresno Flats until 1877. He received his education at the State Normal School and has been occupied in teaching since 1878, and at the present time is Principal of the Selma school. Besides teaching he also includes other branches of industry, such as an extensive insurance and real estate business and Notary Public. He is Secretary of the fowler Switch Land and Irrigation Company, which is one of the most important enterprises ever undertaken for the farmers of that section. The canal will be forty feet on the bottom and will have a capacity of 960 feet. It will be twenty-seven miles in length and will irrigate 960 quarter-sections of land. Mr. Hogue married Miss Effie H. Brown in 1861, who was a daughter of one of Yolo County’s wealthiest citizens, J. W. Brown.

History of Fresno County, California
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SAMUEL L. HOGUE has lived in Fresno county since 1874, the year in which the county seat was moved from Millerton in the Sierra foothills to the City of Fresno. He was an early school teacher, was for several years a school director of Fresno; and for thirty years as chief deputy auditor was in charge of the county’s bookkeeping system. Mr. Hogue was born near Monmouth, Illinois, July 21, 1857, the son of Thomas G. And Amanda Jane Hogue. His people were farmers; his grandfather was sheriff of Warren county, Illionois, in 1841. The boy attended the local schools in Illinois, then at the age of seventeen, in 1874, came to Fresno county, where his father and brother had already preceded him. The family home was then at Fresno Flats, in what has since become Madera county. During his first summer in California, Mr. Hogue was at Sequoia Lake, making shakes. The next winter he spent at Fresno Flats. Later he attended the San Jose Normal school, and thereafter taught school. He was for a number of seasons in country districts, and finally was a principal at Selma school. About 1890, Mr. Hogue moved to Fresno, and for several years engaged in the real estate and insurance business, with offices at the corner of Mariposa and J streets, where the Pacific Southwest building now stands. During this time he was active in Republican politics and was a member of the county central committee. He was a member of the Fresno school board, until that body was taken over by the first city charter in 1901. In 1898, Mr. Hogue become county expert, in the employ of the board of supervisors. He next was appointed deputy auditor by H. E. Barnum, where he continued for many years. When the board of supervisors created the position of chief accountant, he was chosen to fill this position and had charge of the budget making and all the bookkeeping of the county. Mr. Hogue recently retired from public office, to devote himself to his apple ranch located fourteen miles east of North Fork. Mr. Hogue was married to Effie H. Brown, who passed away a number of years ago. His children are: Lassen E., deputy county tax collector; James T., in the lumber business in northern California; Hazel Hogue-Powell, a Christian Science practitioner at Long Beach; and Emily Lucile (Mrs. C. C. Williams), whose husband is a dentist with offices in the Rowell building.

The History of Fresno County, 1933
Transcribed by Liz Brase, 2006