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Sara Haines Smith Hoge

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Sara Haines Smith Hoge
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Born
Sara Haines Smith

March 22, 1864
DiedNovember 29, 1939
Other namesMrs. Howard M. Hoge
Alma materSwarthmore College
Occupation(s)President, Virginia Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Spouse
Howard M. Hoge
(m. 1886)

Sara Haines Smith Hoge (née, Smith; known in print media after marriage as Mrs. Howard M. Hoge;[1] 1864-1939) was an American temperance advocate. For 40 years, she served as President of the Virginia Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). [2][3]

Early life and education

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Sara (or Sarah) Haines Smith was born near Lincoln, Virginia, March 22, 1864.[2]

She was educated in the local schools and at Darlington Seminary, West Chester, Pennsylvania, and Swarthmore College, at Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.[2]

Career

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She taught for four years.[2]

Hoge joined the WCTU in 1887, on its first organization in Virginia, and was made recording secretary and, later, president of the Lincoln branch. A few years later she was sent as a delegate to the State WCTU convention, where she was elected recording secretary of the Virginia WCTU, serving until 1898, when she was elected State president of that body. She has been annually reelected to that position. During her term of service as State recording secretary, she introduced medal-contest work, and was for several years superintendent of that department in connection with her other duties.[2]

Portrait from The Virginian-Pilot (1910)

The membership of the WCTU greatly increased during Hoge’s term of office as State President, and its efficiency was strikingly manifested in the successful campaign for a dry Virginia in September, 1914. In 1906, in addition to her responsible duties as State president, Hoge was elected assistant recording secretary of the National WCTU, and has been retained in that position ever since.[2]

She was a member of the Woman's National Democratic Law enforcement League, Citizens Committee of One Thousand, National Temperance Council, and the Home Interest Club.[4]

Personal life

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In 1886, she married Rev. Howard M. Hoge, a minister of the Friends’ Church at Lincoln, and with him took up her residence near the place of her birth.[2] He was a minister and horticulturist. He was President, Virginia State Horticultural Society; President, Loudoun County Community Association; President, Loudoun County Fruit Growers' Association; and a member of the National Temperance Council. [4]

Sara Haines Smith Hoge died at a sanitarium in Takoma Park, Maryland, November 29, 1939.[3][5] Burial was at Lincoln Cemetery.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Rainville, Lynn (26 February 2018). Virginia and the Great War: Mobilization, Supply and Combat, 1914-1919. McFarland. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-4766-7192-5. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Cherrington, Ernest Hurst (1926). "HOGE, SARA HAINES (SMITH).". Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem, Vol. III, Downing-Kansas. Westerville, Ohio: American Issue Publishing Co. pp. 1235–36. Retrieved 5 February 2024 – via Internet Archive. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ a b "Mrs. Howard Hoge Dry Leader, Dies". The World-News. 30 November 1939. p. 13. Retrieved 5 February 2024 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  4. ^ a b Handy, Henry Brantly (1928). The Social Recorder of Virginia. Social recorder of Virginia. p. 84. Retrieved 5 February 2024. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ "Obituaries. Mrs. Howard M. Hoge". The Daily News Leader. 30 November 1939. p. 7. Retrieved 5 February 2024 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  6. ^ "Funeral Rites Today For W. C. T. U. Leader". Richmond Times-Dispatch. 2 December 1939. p. 17 Open access icon. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
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