Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Hogan, Stephen Francis ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com September 7, 2007, 11:33 pm Author: Genealogical & Biographical Record STEPHEN FRANCIS HOGAN. There are few plants in Joliet more interesting to the visitor than the Scott-street mill, owned by the American Steel and Wire Company. This is not only the largest manufacturing plant of the kind in the world, but is one of the most successful as well, and its products, barb-wire nails and woven-wire fence, are shipped to all parts of the world. The success of the work is in a large measure due to Mr. Hogan, who is in charge of the mill, and who exercises a keen and judicious supervision over the entire plant. He is a man who thoroughly understands the wire business in its every detail. Under his supervision the work progresses rapidly; yet due care is also taken with every product, in order that the high standard established may be maintained. The hundreds of billets in the furnace in the morning are in wire nails, packed in kegs, and ready for shipment by evening. In Richmond, Yorkshire, England, Mr. Hogan was born December 6, 1858, a son of John and Catherine (McCourt) Hogan, natives respectively of County Tipperary, Ireland, and the Isle of Man. His father, who was the son of a farmer, went to England in young manhood and engaged in the furniture business at Richmond. In 1873 he came to America, settling in Cleveland, Ohio, and carrying on business as a furniture dealer for some years. He and his wife died on the same day in November, 1894, and their bodies were the first two buried in the new Catholic cemetery at Cleveland. Their four sons and two daughters are still living, three of the sons being mill men in Ohio. Our subject, who was next to the oldest of the children, was fourteen years of age at the time the family crossed the ocean to the United States. Previous to this he had attended a parochial school in Richmond. In April, 1873, he arrived in Cleveland, and immediately afterward entered the employ of the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company as a wire-drawer, continuing with the company until 1878. He then went to Pittsburg, Pa., and was wire-drawer with the Oliver & Roberts Wire Company until the time of its removal to Illinois, in November, 1888. His first position was as a wire-drawer with Lambert & Bishop, of Joliet, with whom he remained as such for two years, and then became night superintendent of the mill. Two years later he resigned and returned to Pittsburg, where he was day foreman of the mill owned by Oliver & Roberts for two years. He then again came to Joliet, where he was with Lambert & Bishop, then acted as superintendent of the mill of the Consolidated Steel & Wire Company until the formation of the American Steel and Wire Company, with whom he continued in the same capacity. The Scott-street mill has been under his charge since 1894, and he has superintended its management in a manner entirely satisfactory to the owners. He gives little attention to politics, but is a stanch gold Democrat. He was married in Pittsburg in 1882 to Miss Hattie Graham, who was born in that city, and by whom he has a son, Leo. Additional Comments: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/will/bios/hogan1662nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb