Hogg photographs & transcriptions (MS 8)
Texas Gov. James Stephen Hogg letter transcriptions date from 1836-1906. Family photographs date from circa 1890-1903 and include Hogg family, firends, and various Hogg homes (including Varner-Hogg Plantation). (150 bound volumes, 22 photographs)
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Collection Summary |
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| Repository: | Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, TX |
| Creator: | Hogg, James Stephen, 1851-1906 |
| Title: | James Stephen Hogg letter transcriptions and family photographs |
| Dates: | 1836-1906 |
| Quantity: | 150 bound volumes, 22 photographs |
| Abstract: | James Stephen Hogg letter transcriptions date from 1836-1906 and were copied from original manuscripts in the Texas State Library through the courtesy of the heirs of James S. Hogg. Family photographs date from circa 1890-1903 and include James S. Hogg, his parents, his wife Sallie Stinson, and various Hogg homes (including Varner-Hogg Plantation) and friends. |
| Identification: | MS 008 |
Biographical Note
James Stephen Hogg, the first native governor of Texas, was born near Rusk on March 24, 1851, the son of Lucanda (McMath) and Joseph Lewis Hogg. His father, a brigadier general, died at the head of his command in 1862, and his mother died the following year. Hogg and two of his brothers were left with two older sisters to run the plantation. Hogg spent almost a year in 1866 near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, going to school, but soon returned to Texas to study with Peyton Irving and work as the typesetter in Andrew Jackson's newspaper office at Rusk. Between the years of 1871 and 1873, Hogg ran his own newspapers in Longview and Quitman. During the following years, Hogg would serve as justice of the peace for Quitman, study law and marry Sallie Stinson, who would give birth to four children.
From 1880 to 1884, Hogg served as district attorney for the old Seventh District, where he became known as the most aggressive and successful district attorney in the state. Despite a popular move for Hogg to go to Congress, he declined to run for public office in 1884 and entered private practice in Tyler. In 1886 his friends urged him to run for attorney general. His father's connections with the older political leaders made it easy for Hogg to be admitted to their councils, and he received the Democratic nomination and was elected.
As attorney general, Hogg encouraged new legislation to protect the public domain set aside for the school and institutional funds, and he instituted suits that finally returned over a million and a half acres to the state. He forced "wildcat" insurance companies to quit the state, helped to write the second state antitrust law in the nation, and advocated the establishment of the Railroad Commission, which would serve as his platform during his election to governor in 1890.
While governor, from 1891 to 1895, Hogg did much to strengthen public respect for law enforcement and championed five major pieces of legislation. The "Hogg Laws" included (1) the law establishing the Railroad Commission; (2) the railroad stock and bond law cutting down on watered stock; (3) the law forcing land corporations to sell off their holdings in fifteen years; (4) the Alien Land Law, which checked further grants to foreign corporations in an effort to get the land into the hands of citizen settlers; and (5) the act restricting the amount of indebtedness by bond issues that county and municipal groups could legally undertake. Hogg was ever solicitous for the welfare of the common schools, the University of Texas, and Texas A&M, and also succeeded in obtaining financial aid for a division of state archives. Without any real difficulty Hogg could have become a United States senator in 1896, but he was content to return to private practice.
After his wife died in 1895, he invited his older sister, Mrs. Martha Frances Davis, to come to his home to help rear his children. Though he was in debt when he relinquished the governor's chair to his attorney general, Charles A. Culberson, Hogg was able to build up a sizable family fortune by his law practice and wise investments in city property and oil lands. He successfully inculcated in his children a worthy interest in individual and public welfare as evidenced by numerous gifts to the University of Texas and various services to Texas as a whole, particularly to the cities of Houston and Austin. On March 3, 1906, Hogg died in the Houston home of his partner, Frank Jones, and was buried in Austin.
"HOGG, JAMES STEPHEN." The Handbook of Texas Online. <http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/HH/fho17.html> [Accessed Thu Jul 8 10:10:09 US/Central 2004 ].
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Scope and Contents
James Stephen Hogg letter transcriptions date from 1836-1906 and were copied from original manuscripts in the Texas State Library through the courtesy of the heirs of James S. Hogg. Family photographs date from circa 1890-1903 and include James S. Hogg, his parents, his wife Sallie Stinson, and various Hogg homes and friends. One photograph is an original; all others are copy prints, with no indictation of the location of the originals.
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Arrangement
This material is arranged in the following 2 series:
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Restrictions
Access Restrictions
This material is open for research.
Bound volumes are stored off-site and require a maximum of 24 hours' retreival time. Please call the Woodson Research Center ahead of your visit to have the volumes retrieved, 713-348-2586.
Restrictions on Use
Permission to publish from the James Stephen Hogg letter transcriptions and family photographs must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.
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Related Material
See James S. Hogg papers at Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin, and at the Texas State Library for extensive original materials.
Bound volumes featured in this collection also exisit in other libraries, such as Southern Methodist University; Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin; Texas State Library, and others.
See on-line exhibit of photographs in this collection at http://www.rice.edu/fondren/woodson/exhibits/hogg/index.html.
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Index Terms
Names
Subjects
Subjects (Places)
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
James Stephen Hogg letter transcriptions and family photographs, MS 008, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University
Acquisition Information
The Gov. James Stephen Hogg Collection was a gift donated in two parts by his daughter, Miss Ima Hogg. The first part of the collection was donated on March 8, 1951 and the second part followed ten years later on January 18, 1961.
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Detailed Description of the Collection
| Series I: Bound volumes (150 volumes), 1836-1906 | |||||||||||
| Subseries A: James Stephen Hogg, Letters Received | |||||||||||
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| 1 | Jan. 15 – Aug. 31, 1890 | ||||||||||
| Feb. 18-Oct. 17, 1890 Craddock | |||||||||||
| Sept. 1-Oct. 31, 1890 | |||||||||||
| Nov., 1890 | |||||||||||
| Dec. 1 –15, 1890 | |||||||||||
| Dec. 15-31, 1890, Undated 1890 | |||||||||||
| Jan. – March, 1891 | |||||||||||
| Jan. 1-16, 1891 | |||||||||||
| Jan. 16-31, 1891 | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 2 | Feb. 1-17, 1891 | ||||||||||
| Feb. 18-28, 1891 | |||||||||||
| Mar.1-15, 1891 | |||||||||||
| Mar. 16-31, 1891 | |||||||||||
| April, 1891 | |||||||||||
| April 1-May 31, 1891 | |||||||||||
| May, 1891 | |||||||||||
| June-Aug., 1891 | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 3 | June, 1891 | ||||||||||
| July, 1891 | |||||||||||
| August, 1891 | |||||||||||
| Sept. – Dec., 1891 | |||||||||||
| Sept., 1891 | |||||||||||
| Oct., 1891 | |||||||||||
| Nov., 1891 | |||||||||||
| Dec., 1891, Undated 1891 | |||||||||||
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| 4 | Jan. 1-21, 1892 | ||||||||||
| Jan. 21-31, 1892 | |||||||||||
| Feb., 1892 | |||||||||||
| Mar., 1892 | |||||||||||
| April, 1892 | |||||||||||
| May, 1892 | |||||||||||
| June-July, 1892 | |||||||||||
| July, 1892 | |||||||||||
| August, 1892 | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 5 | Sept., 1892 | ||||||||||
| Oct., 1892 (2 vols.) | |||||||||||
| Nov., 1892 (2 vols) | |||||||||||
| Dec. 1-15, 1892 | |||||||||||
| Dec. 16-31, 1892, Undated 1892 | |||||||||||
| Undated 1890, 1891, and 1892 | |||||||||||
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| 6 | Jan. 1893 | ||||||||||
| Jan. 1-16, 1893 | |||||||||||
| Jan. 17-31, 1893 | |||||||||||
| Feb. 1-16, 1893 | |||||||||||
| Feb. 17-Mar. 7, 1893 | |||||||||||
| March, 1893 | |||||||||||
| Mar. 8-31, 1893 | |||||||||||
| April 1-16, 1893 | |||||||||||
| April 1-29, 1893 | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 7 | April 17-30, 1893 | ||||||||||
| May, 1893 | |||||||||||
| June, 1893 | |||||||||||
| June-Aug., 1893 | |||||||||||
| July, 1893 | |||||||||||
| Aug., 1893 | |||||||||||
| Sept., 1893 | |||||||||||
| Oct., 1893 | |||||||||||
| Nov. 1 – Dec. 19, 1893 | |||||||||||
| Dec. 20-31, 1893, Undated 1893 | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 8 | Sept. – Dec., 1893 | ||||||||||
| Jan. – April, 1894 | |||||||||||
| Jan., 1894 | |||||||||||
| Feb., 1894 | |||||||||||
| March, 1894 | |||||||||||
| April, 1894 | |||||||||||
| May, 1894 | |||||||||||
| May – July, 1894 | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 9 | June, 1894 | ||||||||||
| July, 1894 | |||||||||||
| August, 1894 | |||||||||||
| August – Oct., 1894 | |||||||||||
| Sept., 1894 | |||||||||||
| Oct., 1894 | |||||||||||
| Nov., 1894 | |||||||||||
| Dec., 1894 | |||||||||||
| Jan, 1895 – Aug 1, 1903 | |||||||||||
| Feb. 23 – Dec. 31, 1904 | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 10 | Jan. 1, 1905 – Mar. 14, 1906 | ||||||||||
| List of Letters Received (includes 1836-1890) | |||||||||||
| Subseries B: James Stephen Hogg, Letters Written | |||||||||||
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| 10 | April 9, 1887 – April 24, 1891 | ||||||||||
| April 25 – May 30, 1891 | |||||||||||
| June – July, 1891 | |||||||||||
| Aug., 1891 | |||||||||||
| Sept., 1891 | |||||||||||
| Oct., 1891 | |||||||||||
| Nov. – Dec., 1891 | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 11 | Jan. – Feb., 1892 | ||||||||||
| Mar.-May, 1892 | |||||||||||
| June 1 – Nov. 17, 1892 | |||||||||||
| Jan. 13, 1893 – Nov. 27, 1894, and Undated | |||||||||||
| Subseries C: James Stephen Hogg Letter Press, Letters Received | |||||||||||
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| 11 | May 21, 1836 – Aug. 30, 1889 | ||||||||||
| Sept. – Dec., 1889 | |||||||||||
| Jan. – March, 1890 | |||||||||||
| April, 1890 | |||||||||||
| May, 1890 | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 12 | June, 1890 | ||||||||||
| July – Aug., 1890 | |||||||||||
| Sept. – Dec., 1890 | |||||||||||
| Subseries D: James Stephen Hogg Letter Press (Letters written) | |||||||||||
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| 12 | Jan. 22, 1887 – July 30, 1888 | ||||||||||
| Aug 3, 1888 – Aug. 8, 1889 | |||||||||||
| May 9, 1889-April 30, 1890 | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 13 | June 10 – Dec. 6, 1890, Part II | ||||||||||
| May 1 –June 10, 1890 | |||||||||||
| June 10 – Dec.6, 1890 Part I | |||||||||||
| Dec. 8, 1890-Jan. 15, 1891 | |||||||||||
| Oct. 29, 1891 – Mar 24, 1892 | |||||||||||
| Mar. 23 – Sept. 16, 1892, Part I | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 14 | March 25 – Sept. 16, 1892 Part II | ||||||||||
| Jan. 31 – Aug. 30, 1893 | |||||||||||
| Dec. 3, 1894 – Apr. 25, 1896 Part II | |||||||||||
| Apr. 27 - Dec. 22, 1896 Part I | |||||||||||
| Apr. 27 - Dec. 22, 1896 Part II | |||||||||||
| Feb. 19, 1896 – July 9, 1897, Part I | |||||||||||
| Feb. 19, 1896 – July 9, 1897, Part II | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 15 | Feb. 19, 1896 – July 9, 1897, Part II | ||||||||||
| Dec. 23, 1896 – Nov. 18, 1897, Part I | |||||||||||
| Dec. 23, 1896 – Nov. 18, 1897, Part II | |||||||||||
| Nov. 20, 1897-Oct. 22, 1898 | |||||||||||
| July 9, 1897 – April 1, 1898 | |||||||||||
| April 5 – Dec. 24, 1898 | |||||||||||
| Nov. 20, 1897 – Oct. 28, 1898, Part II | |||||||||||
| Nov. 1, 1898-Sept. 27, 1899, Part I | |||||||||||
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| 16 | Nov. 1, 1898-Sept. 27, 1899, Part II | ||||||||||
| Nov. 1, 1898-Sept. 27, 1899, Part III | |||||||||||
| Oct. 9, 1899 – Jan. 29, 1901, Part I | |||||||||||
| Oct. 9, 1899 – Jan. 29, 1901, Part II | |||||||||||
| Oct. 9, 1899 – Jan. 29, 1901, Part III | |||||||||||
| March 18, 1904 – March 26, 1905 | |||||||||||
| Subseries E: James Stephen Hogg Letter Press, Attorney General (Letters Written) | |||||||||||
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| 16 | Jan. 20 – March 17, 1887 | ||||||||||
| March 18 – June 17, 1887 | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 17 | June 17 – Aug. 30, 1887 | ||||||||||
| Aug. 30 – Dec. 13, 1887 | |||||||||||
| Dec. 14, 1887 – March 10, 1888 | |||||||||||
| March 11 – June 23, 1888 | |||||||||||
| June 23 – Oct. 11, 1888 | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 18 | Oct. 11, 1888 – Jan. 22, 1889 Part I | ||||||||||
| Oct. 11, 1888 – Jan. 22, 1889 Part II | |||||||||||
| Jan. 21 - April 3, 1889 | |||||||||||
| April 4 – June 1, 1889 | |||||||||||
| May 31 – July 23, 1889 | |||||||||||
| July 22 – Sept. 24, 1889 | |||||||||||
| Subseries F: James Stephen Hogg, Letter Press, Governor (letters written) | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 19 | Jan. 21-June 1, 1891 | ||||||||||
| Sept. 6, 1892 – March 18, 1893 | |||||||||||
| Mar. 18-July 25, 1893 | |||||||||||
| July 21, 1893 – Feb. 2, 1894 | |||||||||||
| Feb. 1 – July 2, 1894 | |||||||||||
| July 6, 1894 – Jan. 14, 1895 | |||||||||||
| Series II: Photographs (22 photographs, 1 folder) | |||||||||||
| See on-line exhibit of photographs in this collection at http://www.rice.edu/fondren/woodson/exhibits/hogg/index.html. | |||||||||||
| One photograph is an original; all others are copy prints, with no indictation of the location of the originals. | |||||||||||
| Joseph Lewis Hogg (father of J.S. Hogg), 1860 (copy print of cased engraving) | |||||||||||
| Lucanda McMath (mother of J.S. Hogg), 1860 (copy print of cased photographic image) | |||||||||||
| Brigadier General Joseph Lewis Hogg, ca. 1862 (photograph of painting) | |||||||||||
| J.S. Hogg in Rusk printing office, ca. 1867 (copy print of cased photographic image) | |||||||||||
| Sallie Stinson (Mrs. J.S. Hogg), 1874 (copy print of photographic image) | |||||||||||
| Home of Sallie Stinson (Mrs. J.S. Hogg), ca. 1874, front view, where Stinson and James S. Hogg were married (copy print of photographic image) | |||||||||||
| Home of Sallie Stinson (Mrs. J.S. Hogg), ca. 1874, side view (copy print of photographic image) | |||||||||||
| Attorney General J.S. Hogg, 1887 (copy print of photographic image) | |||||||||||
| Governor J.S. Hogg, ca. 1891 (copy print of photographic image) | |||||||||||
| Mrs. J.S. Hogg, ca. 1891 (copy print of photographic image) | |||||||||||
| Mrs. J. S. Hogg, ca. 1893 (photograph of painting) | |||||||||||
| J.S. Hogg's second inauguration, 1893, view of theater as set up for celebration "Texas Honors her Native Sons, Hogg, Chilton" (copy print of photograph) | |||||||||||
| Governor J.S. Hogg, 1893 (copy print of photograph) | |||||||||||
| Gov. Hogg & Texas State Militia, ca. 1893, with U.S. General Wheaten in carriage and Adj. Gen. Mabry on horseback (copy print of photographic image) | |||||||||||
| Gov. Hogg, President Harrison, and others at reception for the President, Galveston, TX, ca. 1893 (copy print of photographic image) | |||||||||||
| Gov. Hogg & railroad officials (left to right: T.N. Jones of Tyler, (unidentified), Capt. Dodd, James S. Hogg, Tom Campbell, George Gould) ca. 1893 (copy print of photographic image) | |||||||||||
| Gov. Hogg & U. S. Army officials representing U.S. Government on Honalulu trip, ca. 1897 (copy print of photographic image) | |||||||||||
| Gov. Hogg & hunting party for William Jennings Bryan, after Bryan's first campaign for President, near Austin, ca. 1900 (copy print of photographic image, with possible neg. number "NEC.NO.M7 scratched on lower right) | |||||||||||
| Gov. Hogg & friends (Mack, Hogg, Stewart, Baldwin, Yahn (?), Allen, Ransom) taking mule-drawn carriage ride in Hot Springs, Arkansas trip, April 20, 1903 (copy print of photographic image, with possible neg. number S239 on front right) | |||||||||||
| Portrait of J.S. Hogg, ca. 1900 (photograph of portrait by Robert Jay) | |||||||||||
| Varner-Hogg Plantation, ca. 1900s (original photograph) | |||||||||||
