The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-07
WHO WAS THE FIRST
 SETTLER OF MONTGOMERY?

According to a tradition that, so far as The Advertiser knows. has never
 been called in question before, the
 first settler on the site of Montgomery was one Arthur Moore. who afterwards removed into Autauga County. where he spent the rest of his life. Gen. Thomas s. Woodward. in his "Remi- niscences of the Creek Indians" says:
 Arthur Moore. the first white man that built house and lived in it at Montgomery, built 1t in the latter part
 of 1915 or early in 1916. The cabin
 stood upon the blum above what was once called the rayine. and not far from where General Scott put up a steam mill." This Is the blum on the river just above the foot of Coosa Street. 9F
 But now another claimant of the
 honor of having been the first white
 settler of Montgomery has turned up.
 Tn letter to one of The Advertiser
 stafr, pr. W. S. wyman of Tuscaloosa ical manuscript notebook. now in my possession. compiled about the year 1886, by Alexander B. Meek, the first Historian of Alabama, find 1t record. ed that Mir. Thomas Hogg. one of the early settlers of Tuscaloosa County, always claimed during his lifetime that
 he built the first cabin at the place Is
 Hogg says that he came from Georgia through the Creek Nation to the place where Montgomery now stands in the
 autumn of 1915. immediately after the Indians had been removed. He was acc companied by his son-in-law. Col. Rich- ard Jones, of Georgia; that his near
 est white neighbors were the officers
 and soldiers at Fort Decatur. on the Tallapoosa River. and at Fort Jack
 son, near the junction of the two riv- CTS.
 He built his cabin. he says. on a
 bluff of the river immediately over the
 place where the Rev. Peyton Bibb af- terwards established a landing place
 and ferry. This is the bluff just above
 the raYine at the foot of Coosa street. It is a noteworthy fact that this Is the
 very spot on which General Woodward
 says that Arthur Moore erected his cabin. Mir Hogg further says that he fenced in around his cabin a part of an
 old Indian field and planted crop of
 corn in the spring of 1S1e. He remain-
 ed here but one year. The bears from
 the neighboring cypress swamp were
 very destructive of his growing corn :.
 Besides that, he found that the site ot
 his home on the bluff was very un- healthy. Therefore. accompanied by his son-i Jaw, Col. Richard Jones. he went further west and settled In Tus- caloosa County. Col. Hlcharo Jones' afterwards well-known in Tuscaloosa as Col. Dicly Jones. settled the place agterwards known as "the Judge B. F..
 Porter Summer place" six miles rom Tuscaloosa on the Huntsville Road MT. Horr went further up the Warrior River and settled what is now called
 "the Favor place.
 Thomas Hogg was Q highly esteemed ana honored citizsn of Tuscaloosa County. He was one of the three com
 rnissioners appointed to select the
 niace for the first permanent Court
 House for the county. He was the
 Arst state SeNltor from Tuscaloosa To,,-+1, after the State was admitted
 Snto the Union, serving from 1Sls to 1893 He was afterwards in 1880 a
 noen,her of the lower House of the Gen. eral Assembly. s..,...a,.
 like the EttrIck shepherd. Scotiand,s
 ,.nnou. poet. he always spelled his
 nanoa with two g's: unlike that Of the
 rnrorthv scion of the same sturdy
 stock who had his name changed oy iegislatfyA enactment 10 osus'
 which led some enemy to wrlte the
 Sas151S ST1ose by name and hog by nature,
 But Hogue by act of the Lesisi@- Thomas Hogg left many descendants some of whom still live in Tuscaloosa