Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-30

After two days OF testimony and
argument in the Probate Court Judge
George decided that Edward j. Hogan
and his family must keep the name
which they claim has been a source Of
annoyance. unha ppncsS and business
and social detritncnt To them for years,
and which they wanted TO change to
either lioman or liomans.
Judge George ruled that tho reasons
given by the petitioners were not sum :
cient In the opinion of the cour, to
warrant change OF the name
Daughter TELLS story.
Probably tho most interesting wit
gan, youngest daughter OF the family.
She testified as follows:
You are twenty years Of agc?"
Yes"
What arc your reasons for desiring
to change your Manner
Social and business reasons and to
have an American name. ono that Is
American in sentiment"
Have you any personal experience s
to relate?"
Eyes, SIR have. have been ut
school The girls would not associate
with me. The Protestant girls thought
that | was a Catholic. The Catholic
girls would think that | was Protcs-
tant and would ask low IL was that 7
came by the name OF Hogan. | was ad :
mittcd to the Albemarle Club because
j was introduced as a Protestant"
Any other cXpcricnrcsT'
At gatherings IL was misleading to
be introduced as Miss Hogan"
What do you mean by misleading ?"
III occasioned remarks concerning
my religious belief AS yet have not
had any experiences In the business
world. I have seen enough. however.
in my own family to realize what con
" I n h, In, a
world"
Il think that's ALL" remarked Mr..
Cox.
Was Cross-Exnmined.
Cross-examined by Mr. Stanley:
WAS there any one else In your class
in the Wakefield School who had an
Irish name"
81 don; recall. but there certainly
must have been"
Did they ever say anything to YOU
and refuse to associate with you he
cause OF your nance"
Yes. the Catholics, when they found
out"
We'll. let us come now to the Prot
estants"
They questioned others and they
questioned me"
HAS any person refused to associate
with you during the last two years
at any social functlon?"
Yes, they have"
Give Just one instance"
ut was just n small gathering at a
private house--a friends house"
What was your friends name?"
"Shc is married now"
what was her name before she was
married."
81 couldn't say. She has had it
changed"
"IIow long had you known herr"
met her a short time before at n theatre
party"
Can you tell where the house VASE
mo. cannot. | cannot just recall at
what function 1t was. so ! can't tell
what town II was in
Experiences nj school.
I'm school, you say, there were many
occasions?"
Eyes. there were"
But you can't tell of any pupils who
refused to associate with you?"
mo"
"Did they discuss politics in the
Wakefield High SCHOOL,"
yes. they did"
do you know John Dwyer, OF Wake
heId?"
Never hoard of him"
"You say that when politics was dis
cussed religion was also discussed. and
your belief was q subject of conversa-
tom"
well. not always. They would ask
my views Of the Democratic party and
assumed the rest"
81 take it you are not very friendly
to the Democratic party|"
why, l have nothing against the
Democratic party"
You think that there is no American
sentiment In the name Of Hogan?"
ut is the grade of the name which
object to-"
GLOW ia that?"
"Why children after dark would call
out 'IIogan's alley 1IoGan's goat"
THE fact that people on the street
and in other places Joke about the name
of Hogan makes you think 1t Is not
American I'm sentiments"
Partly that"
You read tho paperS?"
Some"
Some Other UOgann.
did you read recently that Thomas
Hogan had been elected az president of
an association of Civil War vetcrans?"
mo, sir. didn't read that"
do you think that any Irish name Is
efrim apoiollu onI II h.,I. :. o.,