U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Crogan Family --------------------------------------------------------------------- A History of Preston County West Virginia Biographical Department, Supplied by J. R. Cole Kingwood, W. Va., The Journal Publishing Company, 1914 by H. S. Whetsell Pages 866-867, THE CROGAN FAMILY. James Crogan was born in the town of Croghan, county of Roscommon, Province of Connaught, Ireland. In the year 1846 he came to the United States in company with John and James Doyle. They landed in New York, and from there journeyed to the state of Maryland. Four years later, 1850, James Crogan was married at Mount Savage, Maryland, to Miss Rose Doyle, who came over from Ireland in the year 1849. Miss Doyle was from the same part of Ireland as Mr. Crogan, and a sister of John and James Doyle, who came over with Mr. Crogan. From Mount Savage, Maryland, Mr. and Mrs. Crogan moved to Tunnel Hill, Preston county, Virginia, or what is now West Virginia. Mr. Crogan followed public works from the time he landed in this country, and at the time he moved to Tunnel Hill was in the employment of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, in which service he worked until about the year 1854, when he purchased the farm that is now known as the "Crogan Farm," one mile northeast of Newburg, West Virginia. From this time on he followed farming until his death, in the year 1856. There were born unto Mr. and Mrs. Crogan four sons, namely: John F. Crogan, a well-known farmer of Lyon District, Preston county. West Virginia. James C. Crogan, who was a conductor on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and who was killed in the Grafton yards, December 22, 1902. Hubert A. Crogan, who when a young man went West. He first went to Colorado, where he was a baggage master on one of the railroads. Several years afterwards he went to Gainesville, Texas, where he was employed as brakesman on one of the railroads of that county. He was killed in a wreck in the year 1898. Patrick J. Crogan, who was born June 17, 1856, was educated in county schools and in a private school conducted by Professor Painter, of Roanoke College, Virginia, and then taught school for seven years. He was admitted to the bar in 1881, having studied law with Judge Mason of Fairmont, and he has been in continuous practice since that time in Preston county. He is one of the directors of the Bank of Kingwood. John F. Crogan, the oldest of the four boys, chose as his vocation that of farming. He was married in 1875 to Miss Fanny Wilson, daughter of Eugenus Wilson, of near Tunnelton, West Virginia. He resides on what is known as the "Old Cool Farm," two miles north-east of Newburg, West Virginia. He is one of the enterprising farmers of Preston county, was elected County Commissioner from Lyon district in 1904, and re-elected to the same office in 1906. There were born unto Mr. and Mrs. John F. Crogan seven children, six of whom are living, one dying in infancy. Those living are as follows: (1) Addie J., now the wife of Thomas E. Pyles, a well-known farmer of Birds Creek, West Virginia. (2) Hubert G. Crogan, an attorney-at-law of Kingwood, West Virginia. (2) Hubert G. Crogan, an who went West in 1906, and at the present time has a position as electrician with the Cananea Consolidated Copper, of Cananea, Sonora, Mexico. (4) Bessie M., widow of Oliver M. Bell, deceased. Mr. Bell, at the time of his death, was employed as railway mail clerk on the Norfolk & Western Railroad, and was killed in a wreck on that road December 24, 1910. (5) Walter G. Crogan, an engineer on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and who resides in Grafton, West Virginia. (6) John D. Grogan, the youngest, who is at home with his parents. Hubert G. Crogan, son of John F. and Fanny Crogan, was born April 3, 1880, near Newburg, Preston county. West Virginia. He attended the public schools in early life; graduated at the State Normal School at West Liberty, West Virginia, in 1907; attended the West Virginia University at Morgantown, West Virginia, and graduated in law from that institution in 1910. In his early life he worked on his father's farm. Taught in the public schools for five years, during which time he attended the spring terms of the State Normal School at West Liberty, West Virginia. Was principal of the Newburg public schools in 1904 and 1905. He was admitted to the bar at the Circuit Court of Preston county in 1910. --------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Preston County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/preston/bios.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------