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| lived in New Jersey for several years -- his nickname was 'Jersey Hogan' -- with his wife Mary C. who was born in 1830. Their children Charlotte, John, William and Jane were born in new Jersey in about 1856, 1858, 1860 and 1861; after Jane's birth, the family moved to Wisconsin and later obtained two plats of land at Eagle Point, the same township in which Patrick and Johannah Hogan's son John bought land. They, like our Hogans, were farmers and had four more children that were born in Wisconsin as follows: Pan, 1863; Thomas, 1865; Philip, 1867; and Emmett, 1871. In 1866, they lost a 2-day old baby girl named Emma. Michael outlived his wife Mary, who died April 20, 1888 at the age of 58; Michael died at the age of 82 on September 19, 1907 at Eagle Point after being ill with nephiritis for three weeks. He was in good health up until the time of his last illness, and died at the home of his daughter, Charlotte (Mrs. Patrick) O'Neal, where he had been living for at least seven years. He is buried at Hope Catholic Cemetery in Chippewa Falls. This (probably) unrelated Mike Hogan is likely the one recorded by the Bureau of Land Management as having purchased two 160-acre plats of land in Chippewa County on May 15, 1873. The BLM also records the following 160-acre land acquisitions: Michael Hanrahan, 2 plats, July 1, 1865 Patrick Burke, January 10, 1873 John Donnovan, December 15, 1873 Timothy Manning, December 15, 1873 Thomas Manning, April 10, 1874 Michael Hogan, March 5, 1875 Patrick and Johannah's daughter Hannah (Honor) also settled in the Chippewa Falls area. Born in 1819, she was married to John Long, a laborer who emigrated from Ireland, and the two lived next door to Hannah's brother John and his wife Bridget at 107 N. Rural in Chippewa Falls. Hannah came to this country in about 1845 and never learned to read or write English. Her husband was born in June of 1826, emigrated from Ireland in 1852, and also could not read or write English. They owned their home without a mortgage on N. Rural St. and had no children. At the time of John's death on a poor farm in 1911, he and Hannah were separated. Patrick and Johannah's son Michael was born September 29, 1829 in Clogheen Parish, Tipperary and immigrated to America in 1851 at the age of 22. In 1860 he married Mary Jane Gallagher (born March 10, 1833-35 in Grenville, Quebec, Canada to Irish immigrants Andrew and Jane Gallaher), and they ran a boarding house at 23 East Grand Ave. in Chippewa Falls, four households away from Mchael's sister, Margaret Sullivan. In 1880 they had four boarders living with them as well as Michael's mother Johannah, their 3-year-old son John Joseph, and an 11-year-old adopted niece whose last name was Gallagher. Michael was at one time city tax assessor for Chippewa Falls. Michael and Mary's first son, named Patrick after Michael's father as was the Irish custom then, had been born in 1861 but died in 1862 and is buried near Michael's brother John in Hope Cemetery, as is John and Michael's mother Johannah O'Keefe Hogan, who died February 2, 1883. Michael died in 1908, having outlived his wife Mary by seven years. Michael's surviving son, John Joseph, was born in 1876 and later married his wife Elizabeth E. and became an engineer. By the age of 43 and 44, John and Elizabeth had no children. Family tradition says that John Joseph was an inventor who worked for Western Electric on the border between Chicago and Cicero, Illinois, That plant has since been torn down. A descendent from the Hanrahan branch who studied music in Chicago in 1904 and stayed with John Joseph's family there described him as "brilliant but nuts" and found him over-protective. Read an article about John Joseph Hogan that supports her assessment. We don't believe Hannah or Michael have descendents living today; at left are links to the family histories of the other four children of Patrick and Johannah Hogan, all of whom have living descendents. "If you begin in Ireland, Ireland remains the norm; like it or not." -- Elizabeth Bowen, Pictures and Conversations 1975. |