The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-12-16
Charles P. Hogan Of st. AL
bans Had Also Been
Prominent in State
CIVIL WAR VETERAN
AND STATE SENATOR
He Was Born in Ireland but
Came to the United
States as a Boy

st. Albans, Dec l6.-Charles p. Hogan
J Jagged 72 years, died this morning abou
1880 o'clock after lingering illness.
Charles p. Hogan was born in count,
ITyrene, north Of Ireland, Aug. 27, ls43
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hogan. Tn
It'll he was l3 years old his education
was received under an English tutor. II
1855, with his mother, brothers and sis.
ters, he came to America. He continued
his studies in the public schools o.
Franklin and Lamoille counties, in this
state.
| In 1851 he was student at Peoples
acaden Morrisville, and that same
year h. enlisted in 90. =, seventh regi-
ment, Vermont volunteer infantry, and
fseryed in the Civil war for three years.
He was stationed mainly in Louisiana
and Florida in the department Of the
lgulf. He took part in the capture OF
New Orleans by Admiral Farragut and
later in the battle Of Baton Rouge, La.
At one time he had charge Of the body
guard of Gen. Asboth In the fall Of
1864, after the st. Albans raid, he was
appointed and served as first lieutenant
in regiment organized in Vermont for
local home protection.
After he had been mustered out he
studied at johnson and Morrisville and
afterward taught in Wolcott six months.
Later he studied law in the Office Of
Powers & Gleed at Morrisvile and was
admitted to the bar at the May term in
1866 at Hyde Park. Before practiHng
his profession he took full course of
law at the University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor and was graduated in 1860.
He also took special literary course
at that university.
He began the practice Of law in Shell
don in January, 1870, and continued
there until the fall of 1850, when he
moved to st. Albans, where he had
resided and continued in active practice
until his last illness. In 1892 he formed
a partnership with III. Charles Royce,
now deceased, under the firm name of
Hogan 4 Royce. Mr.. Royce retired from
the firm in 1900 and Mr.. Hogan's son,
George NJ. Hogan, was admitted in his |
place.
Since he became OF age Mr.. Hogan had |
been Republican In 1878 and 1880 he
was states attorney of Franklin county |
and he represented Franklin county in
the state Senate in lss2-4, serving on
The judiciary committee, the committee
IN banks and as chairman of the general
committee. Under a special act of the
legislature he was appointed by the late
,x-Gov. Il. j. 0rmsbee, together with
he late ex-Gov Roswell Farnham of
and DR. Jaynes OF Waterbury,
to investigate conditions
4 the convict and criminal insane at
3rattleboro, and the report Of the com.
mission led the legislature subsequently
o authorize the erection Of the state
ospital for the insane az Waterbury.
Mr.. Hogan represented the Vermont
BAR association at the annual meeting
{ the National Bar association al Wash
lgton. d. c., in 1892. He was president
the Vermont Bar association in ls97-S.
lie was a member Of A. r. Hurlhut
ost, No. 90, @. A. r., Of which he was
two years. He was a Royal
,reh Mason and at one time master OF
Iaswell lodge, No. 80. =. aud A. NJ, at
heldon. He was a deacon of the First
church in this city.
ON Oct. ~, 1870, Mr.. Hogan married
Iiss Thirza Joanna Maynard Of Enos-
urg. who survives, together with a e
aughter. Miss Minnie Hogan and a son. a
Gorge NJ. Hogan OF this city. Three o
sters survive also. viz. Mrs. Edgar a
arr Of Jeifersonville. Mrs. Elmer Doug ],
: Of South Albany and Mrs. Charles Il
regg Of New London, Conn. N