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some time afterwards the President spoke of Dr. Hoge's perfect taste and profoundly impressive style as a funeral orator. Among his more lofty and elaborate orations, the one which will probably live longest on the printed page and in the memory of those who heard it, was that on "Stonewall " Jackson, delivered to a throng at the unveiling of the bronze monument in Capitol Square in 1875. It was a sublime effort.

The earliest literary production in print is probably a lecture de- livered by him at the University of Virginia, Session of 1850-1, on the Evidences of Christianity, and published, with others, with por- traits of the lecturers, in a Royal 8vo. volume, New York, 1853.

Dr. Hoge was an LL. D., as well as a D. D., but he never attached the LL. D. to name, He was the only man in this part of the world, perhaps, on whom the degree of D. D. had been twice conferred. He received the degree of D. D. from Hampden-Sidney College many years ago, and from Princeton University in 1895.

HIS FAMILY.

Dr. Hoge married April 19, 1844, Miss Susan Wood, of Prince Edward county. The good wife, who was so long the joy of his life, died in this city twenty-four years afterwards, Four children survive him. Dr. Moses D. Hoge, Jr., who has an extensive medical prac- tice here, is his oldest son, and Mr. Hampden Hoge is in business in New York city. His oldest daughter, Mary R., is the wife of M. M. Gilliam, Esq., attorney at law, in this city. She was active in assist- ing her father in his work, and Miss Bessie L. Hoge, the youngest child, was his loving and helpful companion, taking the keenest in- terest in all his church work. Besides the above, Dr. Hoge had one son and two daughters, who died in infancy. His grandchildren are Mr. Hoge Gilliam, Miss Mary Marshall Gilliam, and little Alice Aylett Hoge, the last-named being the infant daughter of Dr. M. D. Hoge, Jr., who married Miss Alice Aylett, daughter of Colonel Wm. R. Aylett, of King William county, three years ago.

MADE A MASON LATE IN LIFE AN HONOR CONFERRED UPON HIM WHICH NO OTHER MAN EVER ENJOYED.

Dr. Hoge died a Mason. He entered the noble brotherhood but a few weeks before his death, having become a member of Dove Lodge, No. 51, of which Captain J. W. Lockwopd, Jr., is worship- ful master. The eminent minister had the distinction of being the