Guy H. Fogg
Guy H. Fogg, of the vicinity of Yellow Springs and the proprietor of a farm of two hundred and sixty-five acres just west of that village, is a native son of Greene county and has lived here all his life. He was born at Grape Grove, eight miles east of Cedarville, August 3, 1854, son of Andrew and Naomi (Little) Fogg, the former a native of New Hampshire and the latter of Virginia, who later became residents of the Yellow Springs neighborhood and whose last days were spent on the farm on the Dayton pike which their son, Guy H. Fogg, owns, just west of the village.
Andrew Fogg was born in 1804 and became a skilled cabinetmaker and gunsmith. When twenty-five years of age he located at Cincinnati and there became engaged as a cabinet-maker, but did not long remain in that city, presently coming into Greene county and locating at Xenia, where he became engaged as a gunsmith. Some time after his marriage he located at Grape Grove, where he remained until 1865, when he bought a farm just west of the village of Yellow Springs and on that place he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, Andrew Fogg dying there in 1885. His widow's death occurred at the home place in 1906. Andrew Fogg and wife were the parents of two children, the subject of this sketch having had a sister, Elizabeth, who was born at Grape Grove in 1850 and wlio died in 1870. Guy H. Fogg was eleven years of age when his parents took possession of the place which he now owns on Dayton pike. As a boy he was trained bv his father in the use of wood-working tools and early became a cabinetmaker, a vocation which has ever been a pleasure to him, though his principal occupation has been farming. When sixteen years of age, in 1870, Mr. Fogg attended Antioch College and in that institution pursued a four-years course of study. During his school vacations he spent much of his time working at the carpenter trade, at the same time continuing his assistance in the labors of developing the home farm and after his marriage in the fall of 1878 established his home on that place and since the death of his father in 1882 has been in control of the same. Mr. Fogg is the owner of a farm of two hundred and sixty-five acres of land, the active management of which is now in the hands of his son, Kenneth, for whom he erected a fine house about fifty yards from the home place, taking much pleasure in doing the better part of that construction himself. Mr. Fogg's skill as a cabinet-maker is in evidence in numerous handsome pieces of furniture which he made with his own hands for his home and that of his son and his carpenter shop is a great source of pleasure to him. He and his son have a fine herd of Herefords.
On September 2, 1878, Guy H. Fogg was united in marriage to Georgia Jackson, who was born at Patriot, in Switzerland county, Indiana, January 6, 1850, and who died March 27, 1910, leaving three children, namely: E. Kenneth, now managing the farm for his father, and who married Mary Tresler, of the neighboring county of Montgomery, and has three children, Helen, Margaret and Kingsley; Ella, unmarried, who is keeping house for her father, and Florence, wife of Kingsley Smith, a real-estate dealer, living at Kansas City, Missouri. Miss Fogg and her brother and the latter's family are attendants on the services of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Fogg is a Republican.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918