December 22, 1926 pg. 6
PIONEER WOMAN DIES
Mrs. Sarah Hogue Portland Resident Since April of 1851.
Mrs. Sarah L. Hogue, 83, for 75 years a resident of Portland, died in this city yesterday. Mrs. Hogue was the widow of the late Harvey A. Hogue, a pioneer of 1850, and the mother of Chester J. Hogue and the late Judge Harry W. Hogue. She was the grandmother of Margaret C. Hogue, Mrs. LeBaron Clarridge of Milford, Mass., and Mrs. Carl vom Cleff of Portland.
Mrs. Hogue came west with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Abrams, sailing from New York in November of 1850, and after coming around the horn arrived here in April of 1851. On this voyage her father who had been in Portland previously, brought books for the first public library in this city, and machinery for its first steam sawmill, which was set up and operated at the foot of Jefferson street.
The funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at 11 o’clock at the chapel of the Holman & Lutz mortuary, Third and Salmon streets.
December 22, 1926 pg. 6
PIONEER WOMAN DIES
Mrs. Sarah Hogue Portland Resident Since April of 1851.
Mrs. Sarah L. Hogue, 83, for 75 years a resident of Portland, died in this city yesterday. Mrs. Hogue was the widow of the late Harvey A. Hogue, a pioneer of 1850, and the mother of Chester J. Hogue and the late Judge Harry W. Hogue. She was the grandmother of Margaret C. Hogue, Mrs. LeBaron Clarridge of Milford, Mass., and Mrs. Carl vom Cleff of Portland.
Mrs. Hogue came west with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Abrams, sailing from New York in November of 1850, and after coming around the horn arrived here in April of 1851. On this voyage her father who had been in Portland previously, brought books for the first public library in this city, and machinery for its first steam sawmill, which was set up and operated at the foot of Jefferson street.
The funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at 11 o’clock at the chapel of the Holman & Lutz mortuary, Third and Salmon streets.
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