The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-18
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES -SA AND HISTORY OF.ALABAMA
THOMAS M. OWEN, DIRECTOR

appointed captain and assistant deputy quartermaster general, June 1, 1S13; promoted major and deputy quarter
 master general, June 25, 1874, and wa:
 honorably dischargd on the reductio l
 of the army, June 15, 1895. Appointe
 paymaster, Seventh United States In- fantry.. April 25. 1917; transferred t, Fourth Infantry June 10, 1918, and hon
 orably discharged June 1. 1921. '-'' Soon after this date he came to Ala
 bama, and located at Tuscaloosa. Here
 he resided when he went on the staff | of Governor Pickens as an escort of
 Lafayette. His letter. descriptive of
 the journey of the distinguished veteran
 and patriot. written to his sister, Mrs.
 Anne c. Cazenove. Alexandria, Va. is
 appended. and 1t will no doubt be read | with pleasure. Every inciden .4fn the | tour of Lafayette through Aiabafna | should be treasured, anFf Chi iSnfetIef | adds several items of intere&se1 shF | Later he removed to Mobile Hfs | position in the community was con- | spicuous, and in 1929 he was chosen | to the State Senate from that district. He was returned in 1S32 but in 1885 de- clined a rejection. His six years ser vice seemed to have excited in his con- stituents the liveliest emotions of gra- | titude. Another letter to his sister gives at some length several insta nces | of local legislation which he was in- strumental in securing. It is appended. When he returned from the capital
 at Tuscaloosa the citizens united in the then prevailing mode of showing their | appreciation of his public services, that | of a public dinner. The dinner came on, with its more than two hundred QnlStG. The z January 24th, 1885, contains a two column account of the affair. The same issue speaks editorially of Major Hogan in the most complimentary terms. After his retirement from the State Senate he served in the Alabama Mili- tia, 1856, and he was also a United States Emigrating Agent for the Creek Indians. He was collector of the port of Mobile during VanBuren's admin istration, 1s37-1S41. No man, either in business or political life in Alabama, probably ever in a more marked de- gree, enjoyed the confidence of the people. He was chivalrfc and brave, and prominent In all good works. He had a distinguished Masonic career at- tended with high honors.
 His first wife, whom he married in MtitOH, NOTlnuulpcIldHu SOuHly, 1T d.s July, 1873. was Sarah Vincent, born December 13, 17SS, daughter of Bethuel and Martha (Himrod) Vincent. Her brother was John H. Vincent, who came to Alabama prior to 1872, and who in 1892 was living at Tuscaloosa, where his son, the celebrated Bishop j. H. Vincent, was born. The second wife of Mir. Hogan was Mrs. Maria Filling hast, who survived him. On May r, 1S45, while visiting Demopolis, he died, but his remains were carried to Mobile and inferred in Magnolia Cemetery. The following is the inscription from his tomb:
 'In the memory of
 Major John B. Hogan formerly
 of the U. S. Army, who
 died in Marengo County
 May 17th, 1s45.
 Aged 58 years.
 This monument Is erected as tribute of the love of an effectionate wife" ts.
 The children of Major Hogan (not including several who died young) were: --s -4u
 I. Anne M. Hogan, born in Pa, 1874, who married G. H. Byard. cashier of the Bank of Mobile, and had three | children; among them Anne NJ. Byard, | who married William H. Roberts, and | left surviving her, Byard Roberts of | Swift Ala, and Mrs. G. E. Gavin, | of Chicora, Miss.
 II. Amelia E. Hogan, born August | 12. 1920, who married February g, | 1S42, Oliver S. Beers. ST. (who died November 10, 1SS2) and had eight chill dren, all of whom are dead except | Miss E. G. Beers of Mobile (who has supplied much of the foregoing data) and Harris W. Beers of New Orleans One son O. S. Beers Jr., married Miss Dora Bragg, daughter of Judge John Bragg of Mobile, and a .lIece of Gen. Braxton Bragg, and left a son Jonn Bragg Beers, who with his mother le- sides in Montgomery.
 IUI. John B. Hogan, Jr., born in 1925, and died December 10, 1853, who Georyie owen, daughter of Colonel George W. owen of Mobile, and had two sons, one of whom, Oliver Beers Hogan, resides in Mobile.
 W. Sarah Vincent Hogan, born in Mobile, 1926, who married Rev. Will liam MeikIe. a Presbyterian minister of Ayre, Scotland, and had two sons, Thomas Hamilton Meikle. surgeon in the British Navy, and William Byard Meikle of Omaha, Neb.
 V. Lucy Beverly Hogan, born in 1929. and died July 27. 1857, who mar ried Thomas A. Hamilton, Esq. of Mobile. a son of the Rev. William Hamilton. She leaves surviving her. Thomas A Hamilton, Jr., and Amelia Hogan Hamilton, wife of Mir. William M. Gaillard.
 Lafayette's Visit to Alabama.
 Tuskaloosa, Ala, 10th May. 1925.
 My dear Sister.
 I have not as yet answered your last letter. owing to my absence from home for six weeks. I reed in March an Invitation to accompany Governor Pickens as one of his aid. de- camp. to meet General Lafayette on his visiting Ala bama.
 I.acordingIy repaired with Governor p to Montgomery and there entered upon the duties of Acting Adjt. Gen'l for the State and proceeded into the Creek Natfohs, ,,where I met the Gen'l. his son and Sec. Mons. Lavasseur and a little fellow called DeLion. My situation with the Genl., as one of his family. made me very intimate with he old General, and family, for I was with them a week, night and day, travelling thro' the State. from our extremity to our Southern boundary, Mobile point, wheregEes der ivered him up to the State. 0frIl9aisiR- la. learned from Geo,rW,s sLRfa Eette hat he was we'll ac4Haintsd v witA ,our family, and DeLion paid Pauline . ! pretty compliment, at the ball in Mobile l said ah! are you, ac-