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years. Will and Ima never married, and Mike married a childless divorce
in 1929 when he was forty-four. Only Tom married young, but he, too,
remained childless. Indeed, the three older children grew especially
close in the decades following Governor Hogg's death; they shared a
"family" home, built a business partnership, and, through "numerous dis-
cussions," developed "common goals" for their family philanthropy.15
Ima's adolescence was a difficult mix of emotional intensity and lonely
separation. Her father traveled widely, promoting the nascent Texas oil
industry; beloved brother Will attended law school and began indepen-
dent legal and business activity; and Mike and Tom were sent to boarding
school. Numerous letters attest that Ima had developed an unusual inti-
macy with her father, one that made separation a struggle. On her seven-
teenth birthday, Jim acknowledged her maturity but wrote from New
York, "I am not weaned from you. In every feature of your face, in every
movement of your hand I can see your Mother! ... She was honorable,
truthful, gentle, faithful, generous, faultless. ... In you I look for a friend
and counselor as wise, as faithful, as true."'" Governor Hogg's idealized
concept of womanhood reflected his generation's view that "the daugh-
ter is solely an inspiration and refinement to the family itself and ... her
delicacy and polish are but outward symbols of her father's protection
and prosperity.""1 But Ima was not simply an elegant ornament for the
household. Already she had successfully shouldered the responsibilities
of surrogate mother and wifely companion, and she yearned to develop
her academic and musical interests. Taking a daring step in the fall of
1899, she enrolled at the University of Texas for two years and found
there a lifelong mentor in child psychology professor Caswell Ellis. In
19o1-19o0 she experimented further with an independent life by mov-
ing to New York City to study piano. This musical interlude was followed
by a return to family duties that included accompanying her young
brothers on summer vacations and placing them in school.18
On January 26, 1905, Governor Hogg injured his neck when thrown
during a train collision and underwent several operations. A few months
later doctors discovered his heart was impaired. His daughter remained
with him during the last fourteen months of his life, and Will, who was
working in St. Louis at the time, often joined them for brief visits.
15 Penciled memo, Ima Hogg to Robert Sutherland, no date, MAI9/U1, folder i, HFR; draft
statement to regents, Mar. 8, 1962, MAI9/Ui, folder 4, HFR.
m"James Stephen Hogg to Ima Hogg, July 1o, 1899, letter, 3B118, folder 2, IHP.
'7Jane Addams, Democracy and Socal Ethcs (New York: The MacMillan Company, 19o2, 1916),
83.
'James Stephen Hogg to Ima Hogg, Sept. 26, 1899, letter, 3B1i 1, folder 1, IHP; Will Hogg to
Ima Hogg, Oct. 9, 1902, letter, 3B118, folder 2, IHP; Anson Phelps Jr. to Ima Hogg, Aug. 22,
1903, 3B131, folder 1, IHP.January
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