Michael Hogan, Clare to Waterbury CT

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Encyclopedia of Connecticut biography
by Samuel Hart, American Historical Society
p. 60
"HOGAN, Francis Joseph,
Lawyer, Leader in Public Affair«.

The family of which Francis Joseph Hogan, a prominent lawyer of Waterbury, is a worthy representative, is one well and favorably known in County Clare, Ireland, that beautiful region that forms a roughly triangular peninsula jutting out into the Atlantic ocean between the wide mouth of the Shannon river and Galway bay, and including some of the most picturesque scenery to be found in that picturesque land.

In this region Michael Hogan, grandfather of Francis J. Hogan, was born in the year 1837 and lived during the early years of his life. His wife, also a native of Ireland, bore him five children. After the death of his wife, Michael Hogan, accompanied by his children, emigrated to the United States and settled in Waterbury, Connecticut, where they are residing at the present time (1916) with the exception of one child, the only daughter, Bridget, who became the wife of John Jay, of Waterbury. Michael Hogan secured employment in a number of the great industrial concerns about Waterbury and is still, at the age of seventy-nine years, working for the Waterville Pin Company of that city. His four sons, all of whom continue to reside in Waterbury, are: Patrick, John, Cornelius, and Michael, Jr.

Patrick Hogan, eldest son of Michael Hogan and father of Francis J. Hogan, was a lad of fifteen years when he accompanied his father to the United States, and has resided in Waterbury, Connecticut, since that time. He is possessed of considerable enterprise and it was not long before he was at the head of a grocery business at No. 115 South street, Waterbury, which he is successfully conducting at the present time. He married Katherine Whitney, a native of County Longford, Ireland, who came to this country with her sisters while still a mere child. To Mr. and Mrs. Hogan were born seven children, two of whom are deceased, Mary, who died in infancy, and Arthur, who lost his life in an accident at the age of seven years. The five that are now living are as follows: Francis Joseph, of whom further ; Frederick J., born April 12, 1891, a resident of Somerville, New Jersey, where he is the manager of the F. W. Woolworth store; Gertrude and Geneviève, twins, born November 20, 1896; and Grace, born April 30, 1900.

Francis Joseph Hogan was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, December 23, 1889, and has made that city his home up to the present time with the exception of a short period when he was a student at college. From early childhood he displayed a growing ambition and was unusually apt as a student, gaining the same amount of information as most of his fellows with the expenditure of considerably less effort. The first portion of his education was gained in the public schools in Waterbury and he graduated from the high school in 1907. He had, in the meantime, definitely decided upon a professional career and also that the profession should be the law, which seemed to him to lead more directly than any other to the kind of public life that was interesting to him. Accordingly he matriculated at the famous Law School at Yale University, where he studied his subject and prepared himself for its practice, his career through the institution being one of distinction. He was graduated with the class of 1911. In the same year he was admitted to practice at the Connecticut bar, opened an office at No. 95 Bank street, Waterbury, and was soon actively at work. He quickly showed himself to be possesed of the necessary qualification for success in the law, and already is regarded as one of the most promising of the younger members of the bar in the county and has a rapidly growing practice and clientele. To such litigation as is entrusted to him he gives the best that is in him and has already made a reputation as a learned and capable attorney, not merely among his fellow citizens generally, but among his fellows of the bar.

While it is perhaps too early to prophecy convincingly, there seems to be reason to suppose that the most brilliant part of Mr. Hogan's career will be elsewhere than in the mere practice of the law, however. He is and always has been keenly interested in the question of public affairs, especially in their local aspects, and he has allied himself conspicuously with the city organization of the Republican party. Already he is regarded as a leader in its councils, and in the year 1914 was its candidate for State Senator for the Fifth Senatorial District. Mr. Hogan attends the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Waterbury, and is very active in the work of the parish. He is also a conspicuous figure in the social world, and a prominent member of the local branch of the Knights of Columbus.

Mr. Hogan married, March 7, 1916, Helen G. Curran, a native of Holyoke, Massachusetts, daughter of Patrick and Mary (Cavanaugh) Curran, old and highly respected residents of that city, both now deceased, he a native of Ireland and she of the United States."

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