First Lieutenant, United States Army (1917-1919), The Great War (World War I)
Hugh was called to active duty service as a Second Lieutenant on 15 August 1917 while at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. He was assigned as a Staff Officer in the 1st Battalion, 53rd Infantry Regiment, 12th Infantry Brigade, 6th "Red Star" Division. He departed New York with them on 6 July 1918 for France.
Hugh was promoted to 1st Lieutenant on 29 October 1918. He fought in engagements at Alsace and in the Argonne Forest during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. For his actions, he was awarded the "Silver Star" Citation. That award is now the Silver Star Medal. Hugh was honorably discharged on 30 July 1919 at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
After returning home, he embarked on a long and honored career in newspaper journalism.
Below Contributed By: Ashley Meredith Smith - ashleysfamilytree
Journalist Hugh Hoss succumbs. Hugh Francis Hoss 77 retired East Tennessee newsman and a native of on City died Sunday night in Sevier County Hospital. He was a member of a pioneer Upper East Tennessee family.
He had lived alone since the death of his wife the former Marion Hays of Kentucky in January 1971.
When Mr Hoss a copy editor on the Knoxville Journal retired in 1961, he and Mrs Hoss built a retirement home at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Sevier County. Ardent botanists they photographed and catalogued more than 2000 species of plants in their treks in the mountainous area.
The couple lived on Happy Hollow Road in Wears Valley. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary here in June 1967 having been married in the old First Presbyterian Church.
Hoss was born on the site of the former Boxwood Terrace Apartments, West Watauga Avenue and Montgomery Street, a son of A. F. (Tobe) and Katherine King Hoss. Montgomery Street was named for A. F. Hoss's father Montgomery Hoss.
The latter's aunt was Mary Ann Hoss who married Henry Johnson the city's first postmaster railroad station agent and merchant in what is now Fountain Square vicinity.
When Judge Isaac Harr acquired the Hoss farm he moved the former Hoss house across Montgomery Street to a site where physicians' office are now located.
Hugh Hoss' aunt was Ida Harris Hodge mother of the late Clyde Hodge longtime newspaperman who retired as director of the Johnson City Press-Chronicle editorial page.
A brother the late Fred W. Hoss retired as night editor of the Johnson City Press-Chronicle and died a few years later.
Mr Hoss was graduated in 1912 from Johnson City High School then situated on the campus of the old East Tennessee State Normal. When old Science Hill High School was demolished preparatory to building what is now South Junior High School state authorities reportedly took over high school education on the "Normal" campus for a time. A graduate of Centre College Danville KY, Mr Hoss served in the Army as an officer in World War I.
Afterward he was secretary of the Elizabethton Chamber of Commerce at Elizabethton and began his newspaper career on the Bristol Herald-Courier in the early 1920s. He came to Knoxville in 1927 and was business and financial editor of the Knoxville News-Sentinel before Joining the Knoxville Journal five years later. During World War II, he was employed by the Tennessee Valley Authority but later returned to newspaper work.
Surviving are a son Norman a New York Journalist and a daughter Mrs Frances Drumwright Knoxville.
Also surviving are six grandchildren and three great grandchildren
The body will be brought to Johnson City for burial in Oak Hill Cemetery where a graveside service will be held at 2 p-m Wednesday
Johnson City Press-Chronicle, March 21, 1972, Page 2.
Hugh was called to active duty service as a Second Lieutenant on 15 August 1917 while at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. He was assigned as a Staff Officer in the 1st Battalion, 53rd Infantry Regiment, 12th Infantry Brigade, 6th "Red Star" Division. He departed New York with them on 6 July 1918 for France.
Hugh was promoted to 1st Lieutenant on 29 October 1918. He fought in engagements at Alsace and in the Argonne Forest during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. For his actions, he was awarded the "Silver Star" Citation. That award is now the Silver Star Medal. Hugh was honorably discharged on 30 July 1919 at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
After returning home, he embarked on a long and honored career in newspaper journalism.
Below Contributed By: Ashley Meredith Smith - ashleysfamilytree
Journalist Hugh Hoss succumbs. Hugh Francis Hoss 77 retired East Tennessee newsman and a native of on City died Sunday night in Sevier County Hospital. He was a member of a pioneer Upper East Tennessee family.
He had lived alone since the death of his wife the former Marion Hays of Kentucky in January 1971.
When Mr Hoss a copy editor on the Knoxville Journal retired in 1961, he and Mrs Hoss built a retirement home at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Sevier County. Ardent botanists they photographed and catalogued more than 2000 species of plants in their treks in the mountainous area.
The couple lived on Happy Hollow Road in Wears Valley. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary here in June 1967 having been married in the old First Presbyterian Church.
Hoss was born on the site of the former Boxwood Terrace Apartments, West Watauga Avenue and Montgomery Street, a son of A. F. (Tobe) and Katherine King Hoss. Montgomery Street was named for A. F. Hoss's father Montgomery Hoss.
The latter's aunt was Mary Ann Hoss who married Henry Johnson the city's first postmaster railroad station agent and merchant in what is now Fountain Square vicinity.
When Judge Isaac Harr acquired the Hoss farm he moved the former Hoss house across Montgomery Street to a site where physicians' office are now located.
Hugh Hoss' aunt was Ida Harris Hodge mother of the late Clyde Hodge longtime newspaperman who retired as director of the Johnson City Press-Chronicle editorial page.
A brother the late Fred W. Hoss retired as night editor of the Johnson City Press-Chronicle and died a few years later.
Mr Hoss was graduated in 1912 from Johnson City High School then situated on the campus of the old East Tennessee State Normal. When old Science Hill High School was demolished preparatory to building what is now South Junior High School state authorities reportedly took over high school education on the "Normal" campus for a time. A graduate of Centre College Danville KY, Mr Hoss served in the Army as an officer in World War I.
Afterward he was secretary of the Elizabethton Chamber of Commerce at Elizabethton and began his newspaper career on the Bristol Herald-Courier in the early 1920s. He came to Knoxville in 1927 and was business and financial editor of the Knoxville News-Sentinel before Joining the Knoxville Journal five years later. During World War II, he was employed by the Tennessee Valley Authority but later returned to newspaper work.
Surviving are a son Norman a New York Journalist and a daughter Mrs Frances Drumwright Knoxville.
Also surviving are six grandchildren and three great grandchildren
The body will be brought to Johnson City for burial in Oak Hill Cemetery where a graveside service will be held at 2 p-m Wednesday
Johnson City Press-Chronicle, March 21, 1972, Page 2.
First Lieutenant, United States Army (1917-1919), The Great War (World War I)
Hugh was called to active duty service as a Second Lieutenant on 15 August 1917 while at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. He was assigned as a Staff Officer in the 1st Battalion, 53rd Infantry Regiment, 12th Infantry Brigade, 6th "Red Star" Division. He departed New York with them on 6 July 1918 for France.
Hugh was promoted to 1st Lieutenant on 29 October 1918. He fought in engagements at Alsace and in the Argonne Forest during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. For his actions, he was awarded the "Silver Star" Citation. That award is now the Silver Star Medal. Hugh was honorably discharged on 30 July 1919 at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
After returning home, he embarked on a long and honored career in newspaper journalism.
Below Contributed By: Ashley Meredith Smith - ashleysfamilytree
Journalist Hugh Hoss succumbs. Hugh Francis Hoss 77 retired East Tennessee newsman and a native of on City died Sunday night in Sevier County Hospital. He was a member of a pioneer Upper East Tennessee family.
He had lived alone since the death of his wife the former Marion Hays of Kentucky in January 1971.
When Mr Hoss a copy editor on the Knoxville Journal retired in 1961, he and Mrs Hoss built a retirement home at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Sevier County. Ardent botanists they photographed and catalogued more than 2000 species of plants in their treks in the mountainous area.
The couple lived on Happy Hollow Road in Wears Valley. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary here in June 1967 having been married in the old First Presbyterian Church.
Hoss was born on the site of the former Boxwood Terrace Apartments, West Watauga Avenue and Montgomery Street, a son of A. F. (Tobe) and Katherine King Hoss. Montgomery Street was named for A. F. Hoss's father Montgomery Hoss.
The latter's aunt was Mary Ann Hoss who married Henry Johnson the city's first postmaster railroad station agent and merchant in what is now Fountain Square vicinity.
When Judge Isaac Harr acquired the Hoss farm he moved the former Hoss house across Montgomery Street to a site where physicians' office are now located.
Hugh Hoss' aunt was Ida Harris Hodge mother of the late Clyde Hodge longtime newspaperman who retired as director of the Johnson City Press-Chronicle editorial page.
A brother the late Fred W. Hoss retired as night editor of the Johnson City Press-Chronicle and died a few years later.
Mr Hoss was graduated in 1912 from Johnson City High School then situated on the campus of the old East Tennessee State Normal. When old Science Hill High School was demolished preparatory to building what is now South Junior High School state authorities reportedly took over high school education on the "Normal" campus for a time. A graduate of Centre College Danville KY, Mr Hoss served in the Army as an officer in World War I.
Afterward he was secretary of the Elizabethton Chamber of Commerce at Elizabethton and began his newspaper career on the Bristol Herald-Courier in the early 1920s. He came to Knoxville in 1927 and was business and financial editor of the Knoxville News-Sentinel before Joining the Knoxville Journal five years later. During World War II, he was employed by the Tennessee Valley Authority but later returned to newspaper work.
Surviving are a son Norman a New York Journalist and a daughter Mrs Frances Drumwright Knoxville.
Also surviving are six grandchildren and three great grandchildren
The body will be brought to Johnson City for burial in Oak Hill Cemetery where a graveside service will be held at 2 p-m Wednesday
Johnson City Press-Chronicle, March 21, 1972, Page 2.
Hugh was called to active duty service as a Second Lieutenant on 15 August 1917 while at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. He was assigned as a Staff Officer in the 1st Battalion, 53rd Infantry Regiment, 12th Infantry Brigade, 6th "Red Star" Division. He departed New York with them on 6 July 1918 for France.
Hugh was promoted to 1st Lieutenant on 29 October 1918. He fought in engagements at Alsace and in the Argonne Forest during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. For his actions, he was awarded the "Silver Star" Citation. That award is now the Silver Star Medal. Hugh was honorably discharged on 30 July 1919 at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
After returning home, he embarked on a long and honored career in newspaper journalism.
Below Contributed By: Ashley Meredith Smith - ashleysfamilytree
Journalist Hugh Hoss succumbs. Hugh Francis Hoss 77 retired East Tennessee newsman and a native of on City died Sunday night in Sevier County Hospital. He was a member of a pioneer Upper East Tennessee family.
He had lived alone since the death of his wife the former Marion Hays of Kentucky in January 1971.
When Mr Hoss a copy editor on the Knoxville Journal retired in 1961, he and Mrs Hoss built a retirement home at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Sevier County. Ardent botanists they photographed and catalogued more than 2000 species of plants in their treks in the mountainous area.
The couple lived on Happy Hollow Road in Wears Valley. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary here in June 1967 having been married in the old First Presbyterian Church.
Hoss was born on the site of the former Boxwood Terrace Apartments, West Watauga Avenue and Montgomery Street, a son of A. F. (Tobe) and Katherine King Hoss. Montgomery Street was named for A. F. Hoss's father Montgomery Hoss.
The latter's aunt was Mary Ann Hoss who married Henry Johnson the city's first postmaster railroad station agent and merchant in what is now Fountain Square vicinity.
When Judge Isaac Harr acquired the Hoss farm he moved the former Hoss house across Montgomery Street to a site where physicians' office are now located.
Hugh Hoss' aunt was Ida Harris Hodge mother of the late Clyde Hodge longtime newspaperman who retired as director of the Johnson City Press-Chronicle editorial page.
A brother the late Fred W. Hoss retired as night editor of the Johnson City Press-Chronicle and died a few years later.
Mr Hoss was graduated in 1912 from Johnson City High School then situated on the campus of the old East Tennessee State Normal. When old Science Hill High School was demolished preparatory to building what is now South Junior High School state authorities reportedly took over high school education on the "Normal" campus for a time. A graduate of Centre College Danville KY, Mr Hoss served in the Army as an officer in World War I.
Afterward he was secretary of the Elizabethton Chamber of Commerce at Elizabethton and began his newspaper career on the Bristol Herald-Courier in the early 1920s. He came to Knoxville in 1927 and was business and financial editor of the Knoxville News-Sentinel before Joining the Knoxville Journal five years later. During World War II, he was employed by the Tennessee Valley Authority but later returned to newspaper work.
Surviving are a son Norman a New York Journalist and a daughter Mrs Frances Drumwright Knoxville.
Also surviving are six grandchildren and three great grandchildren
The body will be brought to Johnson City for burial in Oak Hill Cemetery where a graveside service will be held at 2 p-m Wednesday
Johnson City Press-Chronicle, March 21, 1972, Page 2.
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