Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Gogin, Enoch 1812 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  ENOCH GOGIN, carpenter, Palestine, was born October 9, 1812, in Clermont
County, Ohio, a son of Thomas Gogin, born April 5, 1773, in Morris County, N.
J., who was a wagon-maker and farmer by occupation. He died in Crawford County.
His father, John Gogin, born April 8, 1749, was lost at sea. Mrs. Thomas Gogin's
maiden name was Sarah Scull, born 1781, in Cape May County, N. J. She was
married, August 31, 1796, and was the mother of twelve children. Seven are now
living, and their ages will average seventy-two years.  Mr. E. Gogin went to
school in Hamilton County, Ohio. In early life he farmed with his father, then
learned the carpenter trade, followed that till 1860, when he  was elected
Postmaster at Palestine, Ill., where he had removed with his father in 1841,
continuing in that office till 1876,  when he resigned on account of rheumatism;
is an invalid at the present day. He was married, in Hamilton County, Ohio, June
6, 1835, to Mary A. Ewell, born November 18, 1817. She is the oldest child of
John and Helen Ewell, who died in Cincinnati, Ohio, after which she, her sister
Eliza J., and her brother John, who died in Piqua, Ohio, in 1862, were brought
up in Hamilton County, by Scotch people. Eliza J. is now living in Robinson,
Ill., with her husband, O. W. Gogin, a marble dealer. Mrs. M. A. Gogin is the
mother of two children-Leonidas H., Catharine M., born June 25,1836, died August
13, 1856; she married J. Purcell, and was the mother of Sarah E., born April 6,
1856; she married Dr. J. S. Thompson, of Bruceville, Ind.; one son, Frank P, was
born August 28, 1878, is the result of this union. Leonidas H., was born
November 30, 1838, died August 28, 1872. Was a soldier in the Twenty-first
Illinois Infantry, Company I. Mr. and Mrs. Gogin are members of the Christian
Church. Mrs. Gogin has carried on a dry goods and notion business for the last
eighteen years. She is a strong church and Sunday school worker.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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