Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together Robert Hogg, Sr. Robert Hogg Robert Hogg was born at Berwick, Scotland, on March 1, 1815. His parents were Robert Hogg and Janet Andison Hogg. He was raised as a farmer on his father's homestead and was one of those choice spirits who were divinely prepared for the reception of the gospel as revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith. In his youth he belonged to the United Presbyterian Church, but never was satisfied with its doctrine. To his mind, it did not agree with the scriptures. Hearing the Reverend Mr. Cooper of the church he attended preaching unscriptural doctrine in relation to baptism and other subjects, he objected, and was excommunicated from that church. He and others who had similar views banded together as brethren and baptized each other according to the scriptural pattern - that is, baptism by immersion. He married Isabella Swan and they had seven children: Isabella, Robert, Janet, Annie, twins Jemima and Alice, and then Adam. In, or about, 1847, the Mormon elders visited him in the city of Edinburgh and he embraced the gospel Isabe"a Swa" Ho8S with a joyful heart. From that time, he took and maintained a position in the front ranks as a zealous and fearless preacher, proclaiming the Latter Day message in public halls, private homes or on street corners. He was frequently subjected to jeers, insults, threats and actual violence, but never wavered. His wife and children did not share his beliefs. In 1861 he came to Utah and a year later, on November 24, 1862, he married a young widow who had two small children. He had met her on the ship Underwriter as they had sailed across the Atlantic. The couple moved to Morgan, Utah. Two children were born to them, Robert George, who died when he was ten years old from smallpox, and Janetta Anderson, who later married Alfred Owen Durrant. When the Morgan Stake was organized, he was set apart as counselor to Bishop Turner. In 1874 he was called to go on a mission to his native land. Part of this time was spent in jail on a charge of bigamy. He had left a wife and family in Scotland when he immigrated to America because they refused to join this new religion. Only after intervention of the authorities of the church was he released to finish his mission, adding a number of converts to the church. Only one of the children from the first marriage, a son, Robert, joined the church and came to Utah. After his return to Utah, he married Mary Ann Robert Buist. They were married in the Endowment House February 27, 1897. They had two children, Charles and George. In 1895 he was set apart as stake patriarch. His three wives preceded him in death. His first wife, Isabella Swan, never came to Utah. Mary Ann, his third wife, died after they had been married only four years. After his second wife, Janet, died in 1897, he lived with his daughter, Janette Durrant. Robert Hogg died November 11, 1900 at the age of eighty-six. m Mary Ann Robert Buist He ©19 102