Poet and clergyman. Pseudonym “J. H.” Born c. 1828 in Denny, Scotland. Minister at
Covington and Thankerton (1865-1890). Married twice, Elizabeth Macleod and Isabella
Gibson. The *Chambers’s Journal* ledger entry for the poem “A Scotch Bank-Note,” lists
the author as Rev. J. Hoggan, of Covington, Thankerton (NLS Dep 341/369). *The Church
of Scotland Home & Foreign Mission Record*, vol. 17, January 1889-December 1890, Church
of Scotland, 1890, p. 325; William A. Fleming, *Covington & Thankerton: A History
of the Parish and and its Peoples*, vol. 2, p. 50. (AC, CC).