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ceed President William S. Reid, D.D., who had succeeded President Arcliibald Alexander, D.D., in 1806. He at once brought to the college the theological students studying under him at Shepherdstown. In 1809 the general assembly of the Presbyterian church founded the Theological seminary, Princeton, N. J., and in 1813 made Arch- , ibald Alexander its senior professor. This move- ment decided the Presbyterians of Virginia to have a synodical seminary at Hampden-Sidney, and they made President Hoge the senior professor of divinity and he filled both offices until his death. He was married, Aug. 23, 1783, to Elizabeth Poage. He was an active member of the Amer- ican Bible society. He received the degree of S.T.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1810, and was a trustee of Washington college, 1791- 1807. He was a delegate to the general assembly of the Presbyterian church at Philadelphia, Pa., in July, 1820, and died during its session. Two sons, James and Samuel Davies, and two grand- sons, Moses Drury and William James Hoge, be- came noted Presbyterian divines and prominent educators. He published: Strictures on a Pam- phlet by the Rev. Jeremiah Walker, entitled Four- fold Foundation of Calvinism Examined and Shaken (1793); Christian Panophj: anAnstverto Paine' s Age of Reason (1799), and -Sermons (1820). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 5, 1820.

HOGE, Hoses Drury, clergyman, was born at Hampden-Sidney, Va., Sept. 17, 1818; son of the Rev. Samuel Davies and Elizabeth (Lacj-) Hoge; and grandson of the Rev. Dr. Closes and Elizabeth (Poage) Hoge, and of the Rev. Dr. Drury and Anna (Smith) Lacy. His father was professor of science and mathematics in the Ohio State uni- versity; his grand- father, Moses Hoge, was president of Hampden-Sidney col- lege, 1807-20, as was also his grandfather, Drury Lacy, 1789-96. His paternal ances- tors immigrated from Scotland and settled in Frederick county, Va., in 1736, on the do- main of Tliomas, Lord Fairfax; and the Lacys came from England in 1685, Thomas Lacy settling in Virginia. Moses Drury Hoge was graduated from Hampden-Sidney college, Va., in 1839. and from the Union Theological seminary at Hampden-Sidney in 1842, and was assistant pastor to the Rev. Dr. William S. Plumer, of the First Presbyterian church at Richmond, Va., 1848-45.

He was married in 1844 to Susan Morton, daughter of James D. Wood, of Prince Edward county, Va. He was ordained by the presbytery of West Hanover, Va., Feb. 27, 1845, and was pastor of the Second Presbyterian church at Richmond, Va., a colony from the First church, 1845-99. He was a volunteer chaplain in the camp of instruc- tion (Camp Lee), Richmond, Va., in 1861, and in 1862 ran the blockade from Charleston, S.C.,and went to England for the purpose of obtaining Bibles and other religious i-eading for the use of the Confederate soldiers. He secured from the Britisli Bible society, with the aid of the Earl of Shaftesbury, about 300,000 copies of Bibles and portions of Scripture valvied at £4000, and re- mained in London during that winter to superin- tend the shipment of his books by blockade runners. He was associated in editing the Ct^itral Presbyterian with Dr. T. V. Moore, 1862- 67. He was a delegate to the Evangelical Alliance at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1873; to the international meetings of the Evangelical Alliance in New York in 1873; to the general assembly, south, St. Louis, Mo., in 1875, when he presided as moderator, and to the general assembly in Savannah, Ga., in 1876, where he advocated and carried against great opposition the establishment of " fraternal relations " with the Presbyterian church, north. He was a delegate to the Pan Presbyterian council in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1877, and in London, England, in 1888, and was president of the American section of that council, 1884-96. He was also a delegate to the Alliance of the Reformed churches of the world, wliich met in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1884; and to the conference of the Evangelical Alliance in Boston, Mass., in 1889, and was a member of the International Sundaj^-school lesson commit- tee. The Second Presbyterian 'church celebrated Dr. Hoge's forty-fifth anniversary as pastor, in the Academy of Music at Richmond, Va., Feb. 27, 1890, and on Feb. 27, 1895, the city, in connection with the church, celebrated his fiftieth anniver- sary as pastor. He declined the presidency of Hampden-Sidney college, to which position he was elected in 1856, and also that of Davidson college, N.C., to which he was elected in 1860, He received the degree of D.D. from Hampden- Sidney college in 1854; that of LL.D. from Washington and Lee university in 1886, and that of D.D, from the College of New Jersey in 1894. On Feb. 5, 1899, a union memorial service was held, in which pastors of all Protestant denomi- nations took part, also the Jewish rabbi, and to wliich there was a large attendance of the peojile of the city. He died at Richmond, Va., Jan. 6, 1899. HOQE, Peyton Harrison, clergyman, was born at Hampden-Sidney. Va., Jan. 6. 1858: son of William James and Virginia (Harrison) Hoge;