Tuolumne
County
Biographies
CHARLES JOSEPH BOGAN
All those forceful and winning
qualities of the Irish race which have brought Irishmen to the front in all
parts of the world have been exemplified in the career of Charles Joseph Bogan,
one of the best known citizens of Stent, Tuolumne County, California. Mr. Bogan’s parents
were Mark and Ellen (McGinnis) Bogan, and they came of ancient and honorable
Irish families and were both natives of the green isle. They came to the United States in 1848 and
were married in New York City. In 1850
Mark Bogan came to California by the Panama route and located at Jamestown,
where he was one of the pioneers in placer mining. He was naturally enterprising and did not
shrink from hard work and met with fair success. At Sullivan’s Creek he found a nugget worth
one hundred and fifty dollars and took out gold to the value of five hundred
and fifty dollars in one day. After
experiencing the ups-and-downs of placer mining for several years he bought two
hundred and sixty acres of land near the town of Stent and engaged in farming. He gradually improved his farm and as soon as
he was able to do so erected a large and convenient dwelling house. His honest, industry, thrift and enterprise
won their legitimate reward and he became one of the prominent farmers and
leading citizens of Tuolumne County and is still well, active and prospering,
at the age of seventy-five years, public-spirited in all things and
enthusiastic as a Democrat. His good
wife, who has been his worthy helpmeet for more than half a century, is still
by his side, and together they enjoy the honors due pioneers. Their union was blessed by the advent of
twelve children, one of whom died in infancy, eleven reared to manhood and
womanhood, and eight are now living:
James, Robert, Peter, Hugh, Charles, Joseph, Grace, Maggie and
Anna. Maggie is the wife of Charles Durgan and Anna and Grace are in college at Stockton.
Charles Joseph Bogan was born in
Tuolumne County December 18 1862, the fifth child of his parents in the order
of nativity, and was a twin, with his sister Maggie, deceased. He was educated in schools near his father’s
home and reared to the practical work of the farm, but since early in his
active life has given his attention to quartz mining. He was connected at one time or another with
the Jumper Union mine, the Heslep mine, the Golden
Gate mine and the Humbug Gold mine, and has worked himself up to a responsible
position in connection with mining operations.
After having been for some years a shift boss he became foreman of the
Dutch Mining and Milling Company’s mine, a large and paying property at
Quartz. He is known as a bright, active
and capable quartz miner of much experience, and no small part of the
responsibility for the proper operation of the mine with which he is connected
rests on his shoulders. His residence at
Stent is commodious and well appointed and is well known for its genial
hospitality. He is a member of the
Miner’s Union and of the Foresters of America, and he and Mrs. Bogan are
members of the Catholic Church.
Mr. Bogan was married, in 1894, to
Miss Margaret G. O’Donnal, a native of San Francisco,
and they have a son and a daughter, named Charles Cornelius and Mary Belle.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
“A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern
California”, Pages 338-339. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.