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Jacob A. Hoffman was educated in the common schools, and at the age of eighteen years learned to be a mechanic, and started in business in Ferdinand, in 1890, for himself, and now does a business reaching $25,000 per annum. He was married by Father Eberhardt, September 23, 1890, to Miss Clara Wagner, a daughter of Henry Wagner, Jr., of Dubois county, and to this union have been born three children: Johanna M., Gusta K. and Herbert A. The family belong to St. Ferdinand's church, and in politics Mr. Hoff- man is a democrat. He is a reliable, industrious citizen, and is greatly respected for his unswerving integrity.
JACOB J. HOFFMAN, one of the best-known business men of Elkhart, was born in Pulaski county, Ind., May 28, 1851, a son of John and Mary (Rothermel) Hoffman, both natives of Ger- many, who came to the United States in 1833, located in Ohio, and in 1840 moved to Pulaski county, Ind., where the father was successfully engaged in farming until 1861, when he retired to
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Winamac and in 1866 moved to Logansport, where he passed the remainder of his life, his death taking place July 4, 1872, and that of his wife July 11, 1883, both being devout Catholics.
Jacob J. Hoffman, the youngest in a family of ten children, was educated in the parochial and public schools, and Hall's Busi- ness college, until nineteen years of age, when he entered a grocery store as clerk, in which he remained until 1875, thoroughly master- ing the business; he and John A. Hoffman, a brother, then opened a grocery on their own account, but at the close of a year our sub- ject withdrew and went to Garrett, Dekalb county, where he was engaged in business in the fall of 1879, when he came to Elkhart and opened a retail store, and also opened a store in Goshen, Elk- hart county, managing the latter nine years and conducting his Elkhart store until 1893, when he disposed of it and engaged in the jobbing trade. January 1, 1896, he admitted his two sons, Jacob J. and Frank M., as partners, and that year transacted a business amounting to $250,000.
The marriage of Jacob J. Hoffman was solemnized in Logans- port, May 21, 1873, with Miss Julia Moriarty, who was born in Urbana, Ohio, March 25, 1855, and this union has been blessed with five children, viz: Jacob J., Frank M., Mamie, John (deceased) and Carl. The family are all members of St. Vincent church, and of the Catholic Benevolent legion, of which Mr. Hoffman was the first state president, holding the office two years. The family is one of the most highly respected in Elkhart, and as a business man Mr. Hoffman is unequaled in any part of the state.
D ENNIS HOGAN, senior of the firm of Hogan & Sons, shoe manufacturers at Aurora, Ind., is a son of John and Marguer- ite (Rian) Hogan, both now deceased.
Dennis Hogan was born in King's county, Ireland, and came to America in 1847, landing in New York. He attended the Rev. Wood's late Bishop Wood) schools of Philadelphia, and at the age of twenty years learned his present business in Cincinnati, Ohio, where for some years he was engaged in the trade on his own (78)
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account. In 1890 he engaged in shoe manufacturing with his two sons, Edward and Charles, at Aurora, and put in a plant with a capacity of 8,000 pairs per week, which was built in 1895. They employ some eighty people with a weekly pay roll of $600 to $800.
Mr. Hogan was married May 7, 1862, to Miss Eliza Byrne, a daughter of Edward Byrne, of Cincinnati (Bishop Gilmore, of St. Patrick's, performing the ceremony). To this happy union have been born thirteen children, ten of whom are still living, viz: Mar- guerite, Charles J., Edward W., Harry L., John, Kittie B., Ray- mond, Flora and Irene M. and Clara M. (twins). All but two of this family were baptized in St. Edward's at Cincinnati, and all are now members of St. Mary's church at Aurora. The twins were baptized in the Cutter and Liberty Polish church, for fear of dying, as no English-speaking priest was to be had. Mr. Hogan and his two sons, Charles J. and Edward W., are democrats in politics, and the family is one of the most respected in Aurora.
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THOMAS W. HOGAN, wholesale druggist of LaFayette, is a
native of this city, was born January 11, 1850, and is a son of James and Ellen (McCardle) Hogan, natives, respectively, of county Limerick and county Mayo, Ireland, but who came to America when young, and were married in LaFayette in 1849, becoming the parents of seven children. The father was a grain buyer for eastern firms, and died August 25, 1865; the mother survived until 1892. Both were devout Catholics and were among the most respected of the residents of LaFayette.
Thomas W. Hogan, the eldest of this family of seven, was educated in the public schools, and at the age of fifteen years was employed as a clerk in the drug store of McFarland & Co., with whom he remained .until 1866; he then entered the drug store of Tinney, Moore & Co., and acted as clerk until 1879, when he suc- ceeded to H. C. Tinney's interest in the business, and the firm name was known as H. C. Tinney & Co., limited; in 1887, the firm name became Hogan & Johnson, and it now conducts the most extensive wholesale drug trade done in Tippecanoe county.
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The marriage of Mr. Hogan was celebrated at LaFayette, September 18, 1877, the bride being Miss Anna Shaughnessy, who was born in Fountain county, Ind., December 15, 1857, a daugh- ter of Dennis and Bridget (Ryan) Shaughnessy, who were natives, respectively, of county Limerick and county Tipperary, Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Hogan have been blessed with four children, viz: John T., a graduate in pharmacy; Alice M., a student in music; William J. and Harriet, both now receiving collegiate educations. The family are all members of St. Mary's church and faithful to their church duties and liberal in their contributions to the support of the church proper. Mr. Hogan is very active in his efforts to promote the business and societary interests of LaFayette, and finds time to spare from his extensive business duties to act as vice-president of and director in the Young Men's Building & Loan association; to attend to his duties as a charter member of the Young Men's Hibernian society, organized in 1870; also as a mem- ber of the Marquette club and the La Fayette club; the local lodge of the Order of Elks; the Catholic Benevolent legion, and the Indi- ana Traveling Salesmen's association, as well as to act as church trustee, under Rev. Father Walters. In politics he is a democrat, and he never fails to make his influence felt at the polls. The family is recognized as among the best in LaFayette, and are equally esteemed within and without the pale of the Catholic church.
M ICHAEL H. HOGAN, prominent as a business man and one of the old residents of Vincennes, was born in Barrenete, county Limerick, Ireland, April 12, 1828, and is the eldest of a family of five brothers and two sisters, and the only representative of the family in America. The brothers and sisters are Mrs. Mary A. Blackwell, of county Limerick; Bridget A., deceased; John James, still in the parental home, although some of his sons are members of the Chicago, Ills., police force; Cornelius Charles, William W. and Thomas J. are in Australia, and Patrick J. is a salesman in the city of Limerick for an English firm.
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May 1, 1856, was married, in chapel Brady, county Limerick, to Miss Mary Ann Cooney, a native of the same parish with himself. This chapel in later years was converted to other uses, and Mr. Hogan has had the pleasure, since his arrival in America, of con- tributing from his means to the erection of a new chapel in the same parish. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Hogan has been blessed with ten children, of whom three were born in Ireland and one on ship-board on the voyage to America, and further mention of them all, with the exception of three deceased, will be made in a coming paragraph.
January 12, 1863, Mr. Hogan, with his wife and four children, landed in America, and notwithstanding the difficulty of travel at that day, reached Vincennes, Ind., and at the close of the month in which he left Ireland drew seven days' pay as an employee of the O. & M. Railroad company. He continued in the employ of this company thirty consecutive years, when he withdrew and engaged in his present business. During six of these thirty years he resided in Washington, Daviess county, Ind., at the time the shops of the O. & M. company were removed to that town; but Vincennes seemed to be more homelike to himself and family, so he has made this city his permanent place of residence. Mr. Hogan now owns two well-ordered places-one in Vincennes and one in Washington -- besides other valuable property in both cities.
Mr. Hogan has been a member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic congregation for the past thirty-five years, and is faithful to his religious duties and liberal in his contributions to the support of his church. In politics he has always been a democrat since becoming naturalized, was a member of the city council for four years, from 1886 to 1890, and during the recent presidential cam- paign was an enthusiastic supporter of the free-silver doctrine.
Of the seven surviving children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hogan, Mary A., the eldest, is the wife of Mr. Besler, of Montana; Hugh M. is an engineer in New Mexico; Edward Thomas has returned to Ireland, where he is employed as a salesman; Katherine is married to William Fouch, a railroad employee in Washington, Ind .; James P. has charge of his father's place of business in Washington, Ind .; William J. is employed by his father in Vin-
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centes; and Dora A. is the wife of W. Perkins, of Washington, Ind. Mr. Hogan has been a hard-working and economical, though generous-hearted citizen, and well deserves the respect in which he is held by all who know him.
P ATRICK JOSEPH HOGAN, vice-president and treasurer of the C. L. Braman company, importers and jobbers of gents' furnishing goods, notions and fancy dry goods, etc., was born in Ballychill, two and a half miles from Thurles, county Tipperary, Ireland, January, 1852, and is the son of Thomas Hogan, an offi- cer of the Royal Irish constabulary, Ireland, and Ann Manning Hogan, both parents deceased.
The subject was reared to early manhood in the country of his birth and there received a good education in the Christian Broth- ers' school. In 1871 he came to the United States, being the first of his immediate family to become a citizen of this country, and after spending some time in the city of New York, came west, stopping temporarily in Jackson county, Ohio, and Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Crawfordsville. In 1873 he accepted a clerkship with a boot and shoe firm in Terre Haute, and was thus engaged four years, at the end of which time he made a six months' tour of Europe, traveling over the greater part of the continent, and re-vis- iting the scenes of his boyhood in the Emerald isle. Returning to the United States in 1877, Mr. Hogan again engaged in the shoe business, which he continued with his former employers until the following year, when he accepted a position with the well-known clothing house, the Owen Pixley company, in Indianapolis, with which he remained three years, the first two as salesman and the last as business manager of the branch store in Terre Haute.
The arduous duties of this position were such as to greatly impair his health, in consequence of which he was compelled to resign the same and turn his attention to something fraught with fewer responsibilities. For some time after severing his connec- tion with the clothing firm, he carried on the cigar business in Terre Haute, but afterward disposed of his stock and in 1880- (742)
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entered the employ of the wholesale dry-goods and notion house of H. Robinson & Co., as traveling salesman. This firm dissolving, Mr. Hogan continued on the road as representative of the C. L. Braman company, successors to the former firm, and was thus engaged until January, 1892, when he succeeded in organizing and having incorporated the present C. L. Braman company, of which he became vice-president, and later vice-president and treasurer. He is also a director and large stockholder, and much of the suc- cess of the firm is directly traceable to his wise management and superior executive ability.
Mr. Hogan has been a potential factor in politics and was par- ticularly active in the campaign of 1896, as a democrat, advocating the gold standard; he was a delegate from the fifth congressional district to the National convention held in Indianapolis, and took an active part against what he considered the financial fallacy of free silver. From his infancy Mr. Hogan has been trained and thoroughly indoctrinated into the pure faith of the Holy Mother church, of which he has ever proved a most devoted and loyal son. He is a member of St. Joseph parish, Terre Haute.
R EV. WILLIAM S. HOGAN, pastor of St. Joachim's church, at Lebanon, Boone county, was born in Fort Wayne, Ind., October 9, 1869, a son of Patrick and Margaret (Whelan) Hogan, natives of Ireland. The father is living with his wife at Fort Wayne, and is a highly respected gentleman, prominently identified with the Catholic church, of which, also, his wife is a most devout member.
Rev. William S. Hogan attended the parochial school attached to the cathedral of the Immaculate Conception at Fort Wayne until fifteen years of age, and then entered the Ecclesiastical col- lege of St. Lawrence of Brundusium, attached to the Capuchin monastery, at Mount Calvary, Fond du Lac county, Wis., from which he graduated in 1892. He next entered Mount St. Mary's Seminary of the West at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he finished his. theological studies, and was ordained priest at Fort Wayne, Ind.,
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by Right Rev. Bishop Rademacher, June 24, 1897. He was imme- diately thereafter assigned as assistant to the Very Rev. M. E. Campion, dean of St. Vincent de Paul church, at Logansport, and there remained until August, 1898, when he was transferred to the pastorate of St. Joachim, to succeed Rev. Henry A. Hellhake.
P ATRICK HOLLRAN, at No. 430 West Maryland street, Indi- anapolis, Ind., was born in county Mayo, Ireland, and is a son of Patrick and Mary (Horan) Hollran, both natives of the same county with himself, and in which they both spent their lives, dying in middle life. They were the parents of six children, as follows: Martin, Patrick (the subject of this sketch), Bridget, Ann, Honora and Mary, all of whom are living in Ireland, except the subject, and all of whom are well-to-do and highly respectable people.
The early life of Patrick Hollran was spent in his native country, in England and in other portions of the queen's domin- ions. On May 6, 1888, he landed in the United States, and was for some time immediately thereafter engaged in railroading on the Big Four road. Later he was employed as a bar tender, in which capacity he continued to serve until June, 1897, when he estab- lished himself in business on his own account. He has had but one considerable misfortune, losing about $3,000 by the failure of the Indianapolis National bank. Like many of his countrymen he is not well informed as to the genealogy of his family, and even the date of his own birth is a matter of some uncertainty with him. Though Mr. Hollran is past the meridian of his life, yet he is well preserved, sprightly, neat and active. He is a member of St. John's church, of which the Rev. Father Gavisk is the respected pastor, and to which Mr. Hollran is a liberal contributor. He has never married. Politically he is a democrat, but is not a seeker after office. He is a member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. but is not now affiliating. Though most of his life in the United States has been spent in the sale of liquors, yet he is himself a total abstainer, not having tasted a drop of any kind of intoxicant for several years. He is a man of exemplary habits in other directions and is a citizen highly esteemed by all.
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G EORGE HOLTEL, proprietor of the Oldenburg Saw and Planing mill, is one of two children born to George B. and Mary G. (Groenefeld) Holtel, who died in Germany. Mr. Holtel was born October 1, 1844, in Germany, and came to the United States, landing in New York, May 18, 1867. He lived in Cincin- nati for three months, and came to his present home on July 4. 1867. He learned the carpenter trade in Germany, as his father and his grandfather were carpenters. He worked alone at his trade in Oldenburg from 1867 to 1878, and then became a partner with Ortmann. In 1878 he put up a planing and saw-mill, and has continued this ever since. In 1888 he bought in all the stock of the Oldenburg Furniture company, and now does a busi- ness of $20,000 per year.
Mr. Holtel was married May 24, 1870, to Miss Mary Ort- mann, a daughter of Henry Ortmann, of Franklin county; they have had eleven children, of whom nine are living, viz: Mary (now Mrs. George Feldkemp), Anna, George S. (manager of the mill), Joseph, Rosie, Clara, Nora, Bertha and William. All of the children are members of the Catholic church. Mr. Holtel was also seretary and treasurer of St. Boniface Life Insurance company, which disbanded in 1895. He is one of the most enterprising men in the county and is universally respected.
R EV. PETER HOMMES, pastor of St. Henry's church, Dubois county, is a native of Ernst, Germany, was born August 13, 1855. and is the youngest in a family of seven children born to Peter and Mary A. (Goebel) Hommes. Peter Hommes, Sr., was a grower of the vine.
Father Hommes' primary education was begun in the paro- chial schools of his native land, and after his primary course he entered the gymnasinm at Kochen, Rhenish Prussia, in 1868, and remained there until 1871. He then entered the gymnasium at Treves, and remained there until 1877. In 1877-78 he studied philosophy at the Petite seminaire of Trond, Belgium.
In August, 1878, Father Hommes bade adieu to his native
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country and sailed from Havre, France, bound for New York, his objective point being the noted college of St. Meinrad, Ind., which he entered to fit himself for the priesthood of the diocese of Vin- cennes, Ind. He took the theloogical course, and graduated June 11, 1881, was ordained priest by Bishop Chatard, and his first work was as assistant at the cathedral at Vincennes, under the Rev. Father Peythieu, and was there from July 4, 1881, to " All Saint's day," November 7, 1881, and then was assigned to the parish of St. Mark, Perry county, where he remained until July 8, 1885, when he was sent to Princeton, Ind., and St. Bernard's parish, where he erected a frame church, 86x 40 feet, and added a spire of 100 feet, in 1892, at a cost of $3,000. He erected the priest's house in 1886, at a cost of $1,200. He remained pastor of St. . Bernard until August 1, 1895, administering to forty families there, and to about thirty at Princeton.
In August, 1895, Father Hommes was assigned to St. Croix, Perry county, and remained there until 1897, when he was assigned to St. Henry, in Dubois county, where he is the present pastor.
Father Hommes is a gentleman of ripe scholarship, a critic on the leading topics of the day, has ably contributed to the vari- ous journals and papers of Catholic renown, and is recognized among the priesthood as a man of original thought and diction. He is beloved by his people and also has won the respect of Prot- estants wherever it has been his lot to reside.
DEV. GUSTAVE HOTTENROTH, of Fort Wayne, son of John and Margurette (Humburg) Hottenroth, was born August 19, 1872, in the pleasant little town of Hundeshagen, Eichsfeld, Ger- many. The congregation in that town gave several priests to the church and has several more students in preparation, showing that it is a pious community. He attended the parochial school of his native village of 1, 500 inhabitants until he was twelve years of age, and next, in 1885, entered the college of St. Charles, of Aix la Chapelle, Germany, when he made his first communion on Easter Sunday. In 1891 he began his second term as a student of phil- (746)
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osophy in the seminary of Liege, and in November, 1893, came to America and studied theology in the seminary of St. Meinrad, Spencer county, Ind., which institution of divine instruction is pre- sided over by the Benedictine Fathers. There, May 30, 1896, he was ordained priest by Right Rev. Bishop Francis Silas Chatard, and was assigned to his pastoral duties in the diocese of Fort Wayne, where he is now assistant in St. Mary's church.
Father Hottenroth, although but little beyond his novitiate, has been very zealous in the discharge of his clerical duties and has shown himself to be well prepared for his holy office. His attainments, for so young a priest, are the admiration of his con- gregation and well meet the approbation of his superiors, and, although it does not become the publishers of a work of this char- acter to indulge in prophetic language, the remark may be made, if as a surmise only, that the day is not far distant when his devo- tion, humility and piety will meet a well deserved reward. Rev. Hottenroth has a sister in the convent at Bruxelles, or Brussels, Belgium, in the house of the Poor Child Jesus, the mother house being in Simpeloeld, Holland.
P ATRICK J. HOOLEY, the fashionable merchant tailor of No. 418 Market street, Logansport, Ind., is a native of county Cork, Ireland, was born March 14, 1863, and is a son of Michael and Noah (Murphy) Hooley, who were the parents of ten children, all born in Ireland, and of whom two died in childhood.
Michael Hooley, who was born in 1831, was a tailor by trade, and long carried on business on his own account in the old country, being an acknowledged master of his art. His wife was born in 1834, and in 1880 the family came to America and settled in Logansport. The eight surviving children are Ella, who is mar- ried to Timothy Caughlin, a passenger conductor on the Pan- handle railroad, and has five children; James married Ella Hayes, is a foreman in the employ of the same railroad company, and has two children; Patrick J., the next in order of birth, is the subject of this sketch; Mary is a stenographer and bookkeeper for the
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Pharos; Hannah is the wife of Joseph McCallister, an employee of the C., J. & M. railroad shops, at Van Wert, Ohio, with a family of four children; Michael, Jr., is a tailor, and Kate and Nora are still at home. Nora is a stenographer in the employ of I. N. Cool. The father still works at his trade and assists his son, Patrick J., and he and wife are devout members of St. Bridget's church.
Patrick J. Hooley was educated in the National schools in Ire- land, and in that country began learning his trade, which he com- pleted after arriving in Logansport. In 1888 he formed a partner- ship with a Mr. Kasten, and under the firm name of Kasten & Hooley did a very successful business until 1890, when Mr. Hooley, having become a great favorite with the fashionable young men of the city, started in trade on his sole account, in which he has estab- lished the reputation of being one of the best cutters, if not the best, in the city, and also as a merchant tailor who never, under any circumstances, misrepresents his goods.
In 1892, Mr. Hooley married Miss Lena Mitchell, a native of Logansport, and a daughter of John and Anna (Rolli) Mitchell, the union resulting in the birth of two bright children-Olga and Kevin. The family are members of St. Joseph's congregation, and Mr. Hooley is also a member of the Catholic Knights of America.
Too much credit cannot be given to Mr. Hooley for his atten- tiveness to his business and untiring industry, and in illustration of this statement it may be said that, even before he engaged in busi- ness, he had paid for a dwelling for his parents, and has since erected a handsome dwelling for himself at No. 729 Miami street.
Mr. Hooley has a paternal aunt, Mary, who is married and lives in Brazil, South America, and another, Catherine, who resides in England.
JOHN HOOSE, the well-known hay and grain dealer of South
Bend, Ind., was born in Berlin, Holmes county, Ohio, Octo- ber 6, 1845, a son of Peter and Elizabeth (Fries) Hoose, natives of Germany.
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school education and was then apprenticed to a tailor. He mar- ried first in Germany, and on coming to America landed in New York city, whence he came west to Ohio and located in Holmes county, where he engaged in farming until 1852, when he came to St. Joseph county, Ind., farmed until 1868, and then removed to Clarence, Mo., taking with him his second wife, Christina Hoff- man, whom he had married in 1860, and two of his sons by his first marriage-Philip and Christian. Mrs. Elizabeth (Fries) Hoose died in South Bend, Ind., in 1857, the mother of the follow- ing children: Peter, now living in Mishawaka, Ind .; Jacob, farm- ing in St. Joseph county; John, the subject of this sketch; Henry, Christian, Philip and Elizabeth. The death of the father occurred in Missouri in 1875.
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