Ima Hogg had a boat named after her. Built in the early 1900s, the
tugboat IMA HOGG was a fixture in coastal Texas waters. She once towed a barge
carrying 400 Texas sheriffs and tax collectors down Buffalo Bayou to Galveston,
at a gathering of the Texas Sheriffs’ Association. Ima, as far as we know, was
not present. --Galveston Daily News, July 14, 1905.
In
1908 when a New England visitor asked how the IMA HOGG got her name, “He was
told that she was named for the daughter of one of the greatest men Texas ever
produced.”
--Galveston Daily News, October 30, 1908.
In
the summer of 1911 Ima sailed to Germany aboard the Hanover, a German ship which left from Galveston. And there was the
IMA HOGG, decked out in bunting and signal flags sailing, alongside, dipping
its colors to honor its namesake. “The matter was a complete surprise for Miss
Hogg,” said a Galveston newspaper, “and she acknowledged the compliment in a
most charming manner.”
She would never escape her name.
The 1906 Aquatic Pageant included a parade of decorated vessels, one of which was the tugboat “Ima Hogg,” owned by Suderman and Dolson of Galveston. It won the prize as “1st Place Tug” and was awarded an engraved silver trophy. This trophy at some point was given to Miss Hogg. She, in turn, provided it as an item to be passed on to the serving President of the Houston Symphony League. By the time Mary Louis Kister received it in 1973, passing the trophy had by then been a long-established tradition.
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