Hogg, Thomas Devereux, 1823-1904.

Thomas Devereaux Hogg was a businessman of Raleigh, N.C.

From the description of Thomas Devereux Hogg papers, 1779-1910. WorldCat record id: 23032585

Gavin Hogg (1788-1835) was born in Wick, Caithness, Scotland, and came to the United States with his parents, James and Mary Finlayson Hogg, around 1797. He became a lawyer, practicing in Windsor, Bertie County, N.C. He married Mary Ann Bayard Johnson of Stratford, Conn., in 1822; they had several children who died in infancy and one surviving son, Thomas Devereux Hogg.

Thomas Devereux Hogg (1823-1904) was born in Raleigh. In 1853, he was appointed to the board of commissioners for the State Hospital for the Insane (later renamed Dorothea Dix Hospital). He was also an incorporator, director, and stockholder of the Raleigh Gaslight Company, chartered in 1859. In 1860, he became the president of the Oak City Savings Bank. His antebellum business activities also included a partnership with his wife's uncle, James L. Bryan, in a Baltimore distillery and one with Robert W. Haywood in the Raleigh Planing Mills, which began operation in the summer of 1853. During the Civil War, he was chief commissary officer of the Subsistence Department of North Carolina. Thomas D. Hogg married Janet Bryan, the daughter of John S. Bryan of Plymouth, N.C., in 1848. They had three daughters: Sally, who never married; Lucy, who married Isaac Foote Dortch and had eight children; and Janet, who married Colin Hawkins.

James L. Bryan (1799-1856) was a lawyer in Baltimore and in Windsor, N.C. For many years, he managed the affairs of his cousin Joseph Blount, Jr., who was subject to periodic fits of insanity. He was also a partner in the firm of Bryan and Maitland. James Bryan never married.

From the guide to the Thomas Devereux Hogg Papers, 1779-1910, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)