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Washington, and in 1S65 was brevetted brigadier- general and major-general. He retired from the army in 1870 at his own request and died in Rock Island. 111., Aug. 12, 1884.

HOQAN, John, representative, was born in Mallow, count}- Cork, Ireland, Jan. 2, 1805; son of Thomas Hogan, In 181.5-16 he was brought by his father and stepmother to America, landing in Baltimore, Md., where his father died. As a destitute orphan he was bound out by the city au- thorities to a shoe- maker, James Arm- strong took him into the old City Spring Sunday-school, the first Sunday-school in the United States, and this led to his being licensed as a preacher in 1826. He was horseback travel- ling companion and assistant to Bishop Roberts on a journey extending from Virginia to Belleville. 111., and he subsequently preached at every Methodist station from Cairo to Chicago. He was married to Mary West in Belleville, 111., and her health failing he left the ministry and engaged in merchandising, first in Edwardsville and then in Alton, 111. In the panic of 1837 he lost $;85.000, security debts. Paying what he could he went to St, Louis, where he engaged as partner with John H. Gay & Co., and continued i^reaching every Sunday. In the Whig campaigns he canvassed Massachusetts with Daniel Webster, Kentucky w-ith Henry Clay and Illinois with Abraham Lincoln. In 1852 he was appointed by President Taylor U.S. land commissioner at Dixon, 111. He joined the Democratic party in 1856, making a notable speech at Springfield, 111., bj' which he carried large nvunbers of old-line Whigs to that part}', and parted with his political friend, Abraham Lincoln, on the national issues, but maintained his personal friendship. In 1856 he canvassed Mis- souri for Governor Trusten Polk for U.S. senator. In 1857 President Buchanan made him postmas- ter of St. Louis. He represented a St. Louis district of Missouri in the 39th congress, 1865-67, the only Democratic representative in that con- gress from west of the Mississippi. He served on the committee on ways and means and refused to invest in the stock of the Credit Mobilier on receiving an affirmative answer to the question, " Am I expected to vote on this question? " He was presented by the merchants of St. Louis with a silver service costing .^2500 in gold on the

occasion of the appearance of his book.-' Thoughts on St. Louis " (1857). He was familiarly called " Honest John Hogan" and was widely known as an eloquent pulpit orator and stump speaker. He drove the last spike on the Pacific raih-oad west of Ogden, and on that occasion made a speech at the request of Olwin Garrison, brother of Commodore Cornelius K. Garrison. He also laid the corner-stone of the first Jewish temple erected west of the Mississippi river, being the first Gentile known to have perfoi-med such a ceremony. He contributed to newspapers various descriptive and historical articles, including Re- sources of Mining in Missouri, Sketches of West- ern Pioneers, and History of Western Metliodisht, He die<l in St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 6, 1893.

HOGAN, John Joseph, R.C. bishop, was born in Bruff, county Limerick, Ireland, May 10, 1829. He was educated at the village school and under pri- vate tutors, and in 1847 emigrated to the United States and continued his studies at the Kenrick seminary, St. Louis, Mo. , and was ordained a priest by Archbishop Kenrick, April 10, 1852. He was jiastor of St. Joachim's church, Old Mines, and St. James's church, Potosi, 1853-54, and of the parish of St. Michael's, St. Louis, which he organ- ized, and where he built a school. He then or- ganized missions in northwest Missouri, and in 1860 began the foundation for a Roman Catholic settlement in southwest Missouri, which was in- terrupted by the civil war. When the new diocese of St. Joseph, Mo., was created, March 3, 1868, Father Hogan was elected as its bishop, and was consecrated in tiie Cathedral of St. Louis, Sept, 13, 1868. In his new jurisdiction he found nine priests and eleven churches, and he in- creased the number fourfold during his adminis- tration of twelve years. He founded the Bene- dictine Abbey of New Engelberg at Conception, Mo., afterward known as Conception Abbey, and introduced Sisters of Benedictine, St. Francis, St. Joseph, St. Mary, Precious Blood, Sacred Heart, Mercy and Charity in the diocese, to whom he gave the charge of parochial schools. When the new diocese of Kansas City was created, Sept. 10, 1880, Bishop Hogan was appointed dio- cesan, and was also made administrator of the diocese of St. Joseph, which office he held until the appointment of Bishop Burke, June 19, 1893. He made his i-esidence in Kansas City, Mo., where he built the convent of the Redemptorist Fathers, and theological seminary of the St. Loiiis Prov- ince of the Congregation of the Most Holy Re- deemer; and in May, 1882. laid the corner-stone of the Catliedral of the Immaculate Conception. Bishop John J. Glennon was appointed coadjutor- bishop of Kansas City. June 29. 1896. and took charge of the services at the cathedral, thus re- lieving Bishop Hogan of part of his burden.