San Diego County
Biographies
THOMAS HOGUE
was born in Greenville, Georgia, February 29, 1824. His
father, Jonathan N. Hogue, was a native of Scotland, and settled in New
Baltimore, Maryland, and from there removed to Georgia. His mother, Sarah
(Brady) Hogue, was born in Philadelphia. They had a family of twelve children,
of whom the subject of this sketch
was the youngest. He was educated by his father, who was a school teacher. After
his education was completed he removed to Arkansas, where he was a farmer and
carpenter for awhile, and in 1852 he started across the plains for Placerville.
He got there in the spring of 1853 and engaged in mining, which he followed for
five or six years. He found plenty of gold and took out for his interest $35,000
in five months. He still retains interests in the mines. He then engaged in the
photograph business. He was in San Francisco at the time of the Vigilant
Committee, and took pictures of the prisoners for them. At that time Judge Terry
was in prison for stabbing a man and his picture was taken along with the rest.
Mr. Hogue went from there to the Sandwich Islands and took many views of the
scenery, and sold them in San Francisco for a large sum of money. At this
time his health became impaired by the chemicals and he quit the business. He
then speculated in mines in Australia, Nevada. An independent company
volunteered their services to the United States to operate against the Indians.
Captain Vasha was their captain. He was a nephew of Colonel Dave Buel of Nevada.
Mr. Hogue was in the service about eighteen months. In returning to his ranch,
and while quite near
it crossing the creek he was shot by the Indians. The ball entered his side,
tore its way up through the ribs breaking them badly and came out at the
shoulder. Mr. Hogue has it yet. The men on the ranch came to his rescue and he
was saved. He was laid up for six or seven months, and the pieces of bone were
months in coming out of his side. He came to San Diego in 1869, and bought 160
acres of land, and established a stage station. He retained it for two years and
then sold it. He then moved into San Diego and bought a saloon, which he kept
for several years, and then sold it and kept a warehouse on the coast about
seven miles from Oceanside for W. W. Stewart. He was there four years and over,
and during that time took up a Government claim of 169 acres, perfected his
title, and afterward sold it, and has since retired from business. He came to
Oceanside in 1887 and bought several half blocks, and built the house in which
he now resides. He became an Odd Fellow in 1851. He has been a member of the San
Diego Fire Company and has held all the offices of the company, and is now a
member of the fire company of Oceanside. He is a member of the Pioneer Society
of San Diego. He has recently been on a visit to a brother and sister in Texas,
whom he had not seen for thirty-six years. This brother and sister and their
children are the only survivors of the family. Mr. Hogue is now in comparatively
good health.
SOURCE: An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower California… Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. p.- 274-275
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
DR. THOMAS DOCKING,
of San Diego, was born in Brigg, Lincolnshire, England,
July 12, 1826. His father, Richard Docking, was a native of. Milden Hall,
Suffolk, England, horn in 1791. He was a journeyman miller of high reputation.
His grandfather, Thomas Docking, who was born in Linden Hall, Suffolk, England,
was a lime manufacturer,
having several kilns. He left a record of straightforward honesty. He had three
sons in the British army. Dr. Docking's father married Miss Taylor, who also was
born in 1791, in Linden Hall. They were shop-keepers and both belonged to the
Church of England at first and afterward became Wesleyan Methodists. They had
seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second.
Dr. Docking earned the money for his small book education himself, and at fourteen years of age had charge of a flour windmill. When sixteen years old he had finished his book education, and at eighteen years of age he went to Australia in charge of emigrants as surgeon. Falling in with a captain there who had a work and a chest of homeopathic remedies, he thought it to he a ridiculous outfit, but promised to try them on himself, and soon after, being taken violently ill with red dysentery, he thought he would die on the way home. At 1:00 o'clock A. M., he took a globule, and at 8:00 o'clock the same morning he found the difficulty checked, with some fever remaining. He took a similar dose of another remedy, and at 4:00 P. M., he was out visiting his patients. Thence forward he began practicing homeopathy. In 1860 he returned to England and prosecuted his medical studies at a university college and hospital, critically comparing homeopathy with allopathy in the hospitals of London, Edinburgh and St. Andrews, Scotland. He finally received ten diplomas from leading institutions in Great Britain and America, which now ornament the walls of his office at San Diego, in which city he has been practicing for three years. He aided in the organization of the Homeopathic Medical Society of San Diego, and is now its secretary and treasurer; he is also a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He has been a Sunday-school scholar and teacher both in the Church of England and among the Wesleyans. In 1850 he joined the Swedenborgian Church at Milden Hall, helping to form a new church there, becoming a local minister and remaining with them until 1860, when he came to California, for the purpose of investigating Spiritualism. After giving it close study for ten years, he now thanks God that he is not a so-called Spiritualist, as he cannot agree with the Spiritualists in regard to the source of the
peculiar phenomena they produce. He is now a member of the Theosophical Society of Universal Brotherhood, and is president of the society. The Doctor has been a life-long student of men, creeds and books. The motto which he has posted in his office is, "Self not wanted here." His medical registration certificate reads: " M. D., St. And: 1868 L. R. C. P. Edinburg, 1867. L. Med: Edinburg, 1867. L. S. A., Lon: 1868. M. R. C. S., Eng: 1866." The Doctor is also a member of the orders of Foresters, Odd Fellows, both English and American, Janissaries of Light and Free Masons.
At the age of eighteen years he married Miss Mary Ann Wright, who was born in 1818, and by that marriage there was one daughter, who was born September 2, 1847, named Mary Susan, and married John Wilson of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1873; and they have one son and two daughters still living. Mr. Wilson is a master printer, having an office of his own.
SOURCE: An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower California… Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. p.- 275-276
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler