History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . -r 1 ^^^il^^;-*^ -^tc W I. 9^^-/ ^^^ CK^^l^ BROWNSVILLE BOROUGH AND TOWx\SIIIP. 459 sculptor Piatti,—a lofty plinth surmounted by a life-size figure of the Angel of the Resurrection,—waserected in Allegheny Cemetery, near Pittsburgh, Pa.,in 1851, and located near an elegant cenotaph, byPiatti, memorial of James B. Hogg, above referredto, the son of Mr. George Hogg, and who went downwith the ocean steamer Arctic, which foundered atsea near Cape Race, Sept. 27, 1854. WILLI.\M IIO(i(T.

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History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . -r 1 ^^^il^^;-*^ -^tc W I. 9^^-/ ^^^ CK^^l^ BROWNSVILLE BOROUGH AND TOWx\SIIIP. 459 sculptor Piatti,—a lofty plinth surmounted by a life-size figure of the Angel of the Resurrection,—waserected in Allegheny Cemetery, near Pittsburgh, Pa.,in 1851, and located near an elegant cenotaph, byPiatti, memorial of James B. Hogg, above referredto, the son of Mr. George Hogg, and who went downwith the ocean steamer Arctic, which foundered atsea near Cape Race, Sept. 27, 1854. WILLI.\M IIO(i(T. William Hogg was born June 17, 1755, in thecounty of Northumberland, England. While quiteyoung he entered the marine service, from which hesoon retired, and was soon thereafter drafted into theBritish military service, but deserted at Charleston,S. C. Working his way to Philadelphia, he foundemployment for about a year, when he concluded toseek his fortune in the great unknown West. In178G he first visited Brownsville, at that time thepoint where the military road reached the first navi-gable stream of the West, whereby the emig

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