Alexander Hogg Papers

Alexander Hogg, known as the “Father of Fort Worth Schools,” was born in Yorktown, Virginia, on October 10, 1830. According to his obituary, he graduated from Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. Hogg taught school before attending the University of Virginia. After graduation, he was a professor and chair at the Agricultural & Mechanical College in Alabama. Hogg then became superintendent of public schools in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1879, he became a civil engineer at the Houston & Texas Central Railroad. Later he would take a position at Texas & Pacific Railroad, where he was editor of the quarterly. In 1882, Mayor John Peter Smith hired Hogg as the superintendent of Fort Worth public schools. He held the job for sixteen years. On August 10, 1911, Hogg died in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was being treated for an illness. His body was returned to Fort Worth and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery. Hogg was preceded in death by his wife, Elizabeth Buckner Cooke Hogg (1834-1900), and his son Walter Dabney Hogg (1862-1867). Their three daughters, Virginia Dabney Hogg Wynne (1869-1949), Mary Lulie Hogg (1865-1955), and Julia Ellen Hogg Powell (1872-1911) survived him.

Source: "Public Schools to be Draped in Memory of Hogg: Father of City's Educational System Dies." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, August 11, 1911.