Harry Hogue was born at Crawfordsville, Indiana February 4, 1848. A civil engineer, he came to Dakota in 1882 where he was a surveyor locating railway rights of way north from Carrington and west to Turtle Lake. In 1889 he established the Foster County Independent which he purchased from J. Morley Wyard. Wyard had called his newspaper the Carrington News. Hogue changed the name of the paper to the Independent but retained the volume numbering system started in 1883 by Wyard. He continued publishing the paper until 1897 or 1898, when the paper was sold to H.H. Palmer. Hogue was at least part time in the real estate business while running the newspaper and continued in that line of business in Carrington until 1910 when he moved with his family to Dickinson. He was also in the real estate business in that city.
He married at Carrington in 1890 Hattie, the daughter of A.R. Beaty. They had three children, two daughters and a son. Harry Hogue died at Dickinson July 22, 1931.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 28B