Author: Hogg, James, the younger
Biography:
HOGG, James, the younger (1800-66: DCB)
A distant relation of the Scottish writer James Hogg, he was born in Leitrim in Ireland, one of three children of Thomas and Sarah Hogg. In 1819 the family emigrated to New Brunswick and settled in Saint John, where James was taken on as a writer for the New Brunswick Courier. Henry Chubb, the editor of the Courier, published some of his poems in the paper and in 1825 produced a collection of them. In 1830, Hogg married Eliza (or Elizabeth) Johnston, another Irish immigrant; they would have four children together. A few years later, they moved to Fredericton, where Hogg established a press and in 1844 began his own weekly newspaper, the New Brunswick Reporter and Fredericton Advertiser, which he used as a vehicle for his generally reformist political views. It became the most successful weekly in the province and was carried on after his death by his son Thomas Henry Hogg. (DCB 29 Mar. 2019; New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia online 29 Mar. 2019; ancestry.com 29 Mar. 2019) HJ
Other Names:
- James Hogg the younger