The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 55, July 1951 - April, 1952 Page: 441
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What James Stephen Hogg Means to Texas
at the defense of Corinth, Mississippi. So ended the career of a
courageous leader and public servant, and so ended the hopes
of James Stephen Hogg for a secure and peaceful boyhood and
the guidance of a wise father to start him on the path of manhood.
Sad and hard as it was, the youth of James Stephen Hogg was
very much like that of other young boys in the South of his day.
The material destruction that was caused by the war was made
many times worse by the instability and misgovernment of the
Reconstruction period. The property which General Hogg had
left his family became relatively worthless and soon disappeared
through sales which were made in order to pay taxes and to
sustain the expenses of living for the family. No opportunity for
public education was afforded young Jim Hogg. The appropria-
tion to establish a university had been diverted for the defense
of the state. A year of private schooling in Alabama was all that
the family could afford to give Jim Hogg.
Returning to Texas in 1866, Jim Hogg at the age of fifteen set
about as best he could to earn a living and at the same time to
educate himself. He worked as a typesetter in Rusk, where he
perfected his spelling and enriched his vocabulary, being encour-
aged by the example of the literary accomplishments of his
brother, Thomas E. Hogg. The Reconstruction period was one
of lawlessness, but Jim Hogg fearlessly attacked the lawless ele-
ment. As a consequence he was ambushed and shot in the back,
but he recovered and continued his campaign on law violators
with renewed vigor. He published his own newspapers in Long-
view and Quitman, in which he attacked the subsidies to the
railroads and the flagrant corruption of the Grant administration
in Washington.
At the age of twenty-one, Jim Hogg entered upon his public
career, being elected justice of the peace at Quitman, in Wood
County, in 1873. While he was serving in this office he studied
law and was admitted to the bar in 1875. In the meantime, in
1874, he married Miss Sallie Stinson, the daughter of Colonel
James A. Stinson of Wood County, a most fortunate and happy
union which saw the birth of three sons and a daughter and
which lasted throughout Jim Hogg's career as a public officer
and until his wife's untimely death in 1895.441
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