San Joaquin County
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GEORGE HOGAN
GEORGE HOGAN, of Elkhorn
Township, was born July 12, 1837, in Jefferson County, New York, his parents
being Edward and Jane (Hutchins) Hogan; the father, a carpenter, was a native
of Vermont and the mother of New York. The family removed to Ohio in an early
day, remaining in that State a number of years, thence to Illinois, where the
father died in July, 1876, at the age of seventy-five years. There were nine
children in the family, namely: Charles, deceased; John, George, Edward, Frank,
Nancy, wife of E. Campbell, of New York; Jane, married; Clara, also married;
Nellie, wife of Lewis Card, residents of McHenry County, Illinois.
George, the subject, is the only one in
California. As a boy he was raised on a farm until thirteen years old, when he
started out for himself, working five years on a farm, then starting for
California, in 1864. He crossed the plains with a train of about 40 families.
The trip occupied about four months; it was a very pleasant one, as they had no
sickness and lost no stock. Mr. Hogan spent about a year on John Dodge’s ranch
on the Calaveras river, then purchased land on the Waterloo road, which he sold
out at the end of a year and went on the upper Stockton road, where he rented
land and farmed one year. He then went to Lodi and there again rented land
which he worked about a year, then, in 1875, he purchased 380 acres of land
three and a half miles from Lodi and ten from Stockton, on the Cherokee Lane
road. He has made most of the improvements himself and now possesses a splendid
farm, devoted principally to the production of hay, grain and stock. He has a
small vineyard for family use.
He was married, in 1861, in Illinois, to
Miss Elizabeth Bennett, a native of Illinois. They have twelve children, all
living, namely: Lewis V., Eugene S., Mary, wife of Charles E. Door; Lena,
Clara, Jennie, Cora, Estella, Frank, Walter and Hazel May. Mr. Hogan is a
member of the I. O. O. F., Lodge No. 259, also of the Lodi Grange, No. 92.
The subject is indeed an example to the
present generation; looking at his career we see what energy and pluck can do.
He landed in California with the sum of $1.25 in his pocket, and to-day he is
one of the most prosperous farmers of San Joaquin County.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 590-591. Lewis Pub.
Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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