BIOGRAPHY of S.L. HOGUE
History of Fresno County California-published in 1882 by Wallace W. Elliott & Co. Publishers, San Francisco

S.L. HOGUE came to Fresno County eight years ago, and engaged in mining and lumbering at Fresno Flats until 1877.
He received his education at the State Normal School and has been occupied in teaching since 1878 and at the present time is Principal of the Selma School. Besides teaching he also includes other branches of industry, such as an extensive insurance and real estate business and Notary Public.
He is Secretary of the Fowler Switch Land and Irrigation Company, which is one of the most important enterprises ever undertaken for the farmers of that section. The canal will be forty feet on the bottom and will have a capacity of 960 feet. It will be twenty-seven miles in length and will irrigate 960 quarter-sections of land.
Mr HOGUE married Miss Effie H BROWN in 1861, who was a daughter of one of Yolo County's wealthiest citizens, J. W. BROWN.