The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-01-17

LED FORTH WITH PEAcE.-Father Co.
gan is dead. While this brief announce
ment made on our streets on Wednesday
morning was not unexpected, yet the
fearful expressions of sorrow attested
the universal affection and esteem in
which he was held in this community,
where he has lived for ten years, and
where his labors in behalf of Christianity
and education are known and appreciat-
ed. 1t is not too much to say that he
was everyone's friend. Truly it may be
said of him that his controlling motto
was "malice toward none, charity for
ALL" Rarely is that virtue which covers
a multitude of sins so strikingly exempli-
fed as it was in Father Cogan. Modest
and unassuming in the everyday walks
of life, yet he was always sparkling and
vivacious IN conversation, and few
would suspect, without intimate &C
quaintance, the profound depths of his
learning, which seemed to have grasped
the most diversified subjects. He was
the soul of good-nature, and his great
heart could not withstand a plea for aid
great or small. He was sympathetic
and generous, and many a young man
will bear willing testimony to the acts
of kindness received at his hands. He
had a peculiarly warm side for young
men in straitened circumstances am
bilious for an education, and he has ten
dered material aid to scores of them.
Rev. D. ]. Cogan was born in Dublin,
Ireland on the 2Sth. Of May, 1927, and
received thorough classical education
at Trinity College in his native city-one
of the finest educational institutions in
the world. He subsequently studied
theology and was admitted to the priest
hood in the Catholic church at an early
age. On account OF ill-health he came to
America in 1861, at the breaking out Of
the war, and his first field as mission
airy was Of a semi-military character,
under the auspices of Gen. Rosecrans, at
Little Rock, Ark, where he established
school attended by young men of both
Union and Confederate antecedents, in
connection with his missionary work.
In 1865 he removed to Dubuque, Iowa.
where r. did missionary work until 1869
when he accepted similar work in Illinois.
In 1877 he accepted a professorship at
St. Johns college, in this county, and a
year later he opened his famous academy
of individual instruction at Grove Lake
which he removed to Sank Centre in
1888. Here the ambition of his life SEEM
ed to be about realized-the building up
of an influential educational institution
under his original plan, which was so
successful. But in March last he met
with the greatest disappointment of his
life in the burning of the fine building,
which was a monument to his industry
and energy. 1t was a grievous disap-
pointment to him as well as great loss
to the village.
He accepted the pastorate of the Irish
Catholic church a little later, a position
he held at the time of his oath. During
his brief incumbency he has made marked
improvements in the church property and
his loss will be keenly felt by his congre-
CATION.
To his only sister, Mrs. Donahue, who
was his constant companion, and his
neices and nephews, a nd members of his
family, the heartfelt sympathy of the
community is extended. He will be bur-
led at half past nine o'clock tomorrow
morning from the church of which he
was pastor. Requiescat in pace.