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HON. NICHOLAS HOGUE, farmer, post office Fairhaven, was born June 4, 1843, in this county, the son of Nicholas Hogue, Sr., a native of Bavaria, Germany, who came to America in 1831, at the age of twenty-two years. He worked twenty years in the rolling-mill in Pittsburgh, and then removed to Baldwin township, where he bought a farm of sixty acres, on which the subject of these lines now resides. The father died April 13, 1862, at the age of forty-two years. He was an active member of the German Lutheran Church, of which he was trustee for many years. He married Catherine, daughter of Jacob Keifer, of German descent, and she died May 2, 1886, the mother three children who attained maturity: Jacob, Mrs. Catherine Simon and Nicholas. Our subject was educated in this county, and graduated at Duff’s College in the class of 1863. He married Philopena Simon, of Germany, and they have four children: Catherine, Jacob N., Elizabeth and Louise. Mr. and Mrs. Hogue are members of the German Lutheran church, in which he has always taken an active interest. Early in life Mr. Hogue was a teacher, but later a farmer. He has filled the offices of assessor, auditor and justice of the peace, being re-elected to the last-named position in 1888. He is a republican, and was by that party elected to the legislature in 1883. He served on the committees of agriculture, mining, retrenchment and reform, and also on the committee of geological survey.