James Hoge Tyler James Hogue Tyler ( August 11 , 1846 - January 3 , 1925 ) was a United States political figure . He was the 16th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 1890 to 1894 , and the 43rd Governor of Virginia from 1898 to 1902 . He compiled " The Family of Hoge " , published posthumously in 1927 . Governor Tyler was from an old illustrious family , including pioneers and the wealthy . Biography . He was born at Blenheim in Caroline County , Virginia on August 11 , 1846 . Two hours after his birth his mother died . His grandparents took him 300 miles by carriage to his mother ' s home , Hayfield , subsequently known as Belle - Hampton , in Pulaski County , Virginia . There he was raised by his maternal grandparents , General James Hoge and Eleanor Haven Howe . About 1862 , at the age of 16 , he enlisted in the Army of the Confederate States of America and served as a private until the end of the American Civil War rather than accept a commission as an officer and be separated from his friend . On November 16 , 1868 , he married Sue Hammet of Montgomery County , Virginia , and the children by that marriage were Edward Hammet , James Hoge , Stockton Heth , Belle Norwood , Sue Hampton , Henry Clement , Eliza ( Lily ) , and Eleanor . Tyler was a devout Presbyterian . Three times he was elected to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church . In 1892 he was a delegate to the Pan Presbyterian Alliance in Toronto , and in 1896 a delegate to the convention in Glasgo , Scotland , where he presided over one of the sessions . He was a member of the boards of trustees of Hampden - Sydney College , the Union Theological Seminary and the Synodical Orphans Home at Lynchburg . He died January 3 , 1925 at Belle - Hampton . Belle - Hampton was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 . Electoral History . 1897 . Tyler was elected Governor of Virginia with 64 . 59 % of the vote , defeating Republican Patrick H . McCaull , Prohibitionists L . A . Cutler and John J . Quantz , and Independent James S . Cowden . The Family of Hoge . He spent the last years of his life compiling " The Family of Hoge " , a genealogy of the descendents of William Hoge and Barbara Hume , his great - great - great - grandparents and the American progenitors of the Hoge Family . " About the close of the seventeenth century1682a young man named William Hoge , son of Sir James Hoge , who was a son of George Hoge , a son of Sir John Hoge , of Musselboro , Scotland , evidently in good circumstances , came to America on account of the religious persecutions under the Stuarts . . . . . . He came to America in 1682 in the ship Caledonia to Perth Amboy , New Jersey , as a young man , and there came on the same ship a Sir James Hume from the same place in Scotland , who was the son of gentry and was well off . He was related to the Humes of Nine Wells and Lord Hume of Home , Earl of Home , and was related to David Hume , the great Historian and author . With Hume on the ship was his wife and daughter , Barbara . The man and his wife died on the voyage and Barbara was left an orphan and went with an uncle , Dr . Johnson of Perth Amboy . William Hoge afterward married Barbara in 1695 . James Hoge Tyler was : The " Family of Hoge " was published posthumously in 1927 .