Biography of 	WOGAN, John A., Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller April 1998

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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 473-474.  Edited
by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical
Association.

Wogan, John Augustin, assistant treasurer of the United States at New
Orleans, La., was born in New Orleans, May 30, 1858; the son of Charles
Nicholas and Adine (Augustin) Wogan, who were both natives of Louisiana.
Charles N. Wogan, born March 8, 1826; was a sugar planter, also a merchant,
in partnership with Theodore Brierre, and for many years owned the La
Branche plantation in St. Charles parish.  He retired from business in
1890, and died March 19, 1903.  Gen. Jean Baptiste Donatien Augustin,
maternal grandfather of John A. Wogan, was born on the Island of Santo
Domingo, in 1800.  When the negro slaves revolted and massacred the white
settlers, the only members of the Augustin family that escaped death were
Jean Augustin, with his wife and young son, J. B. Donatien.  They found
refuge, in Santiago de Cuba, where they resided a few years before coming
to Louisiana.  Reared and educated in New Orleans, J. B. Donatien Augustin
became a prominent lawyer; was judge of the fifth district court, sheriff
of Orleans parish, a general in the Mexican war and general commanding the
battalion of Orleans guards in the state militia.  His wife, Melazie La
Branche was the daughter of Hermogene Le Branche, planter in St. Charles
parish.  They had 5 children:  James Donatien,  John Alcee,  Adine (Mrs.
Charles N. Wogan, mother of John A. Wogan),  Louise, widow of Francois
Fortier;  Aimee, widow of Dr. Jean Francois Beugnot, and  Marie.  John A.
Wogan was educated in private schools and at the Jesuits' college, New
Orleans, and completed his classical studies at Spring Hill college, near
Mobile, Ala.  Soon after leaving college, he went in business with his
father, in the sugar commission house of Brierre & Wogan, and on leaving
that firm, entered into partnership with his brothers, Charles N. and Jules
A. Wogan, for the conduct of a refinery in New Orleans.  After the
dissolution of the partnership, John A. Wogan continued in the sugar and
molasses trade.  For many years Mr. Wogan has been a leading member of the
Louisiana White Republican party, and served on both the executive and the
campaign committees.  In 1904 he was candidate for the mayoralty of New
Orleans, and in 1910 was the Republican nominee for the first congressional
district.  Because of eminent services rendered the republican party in
Louisiana, Mr. Wogan was appointed assistant treasurer of the United States
at New Orleans by Pres. Taft in 1911, and at this writing is still in
office under a democratic administration.  Mr. Wogan has been president of
the Louisiana Sugar Exchange, director of the Germania National and the
Whitney National banks, charter member and vice-president of the New
Orleans Progressive union, now the New Orleans Association of Commerce, and
during many years, a member of the exclusive social clubs, and of the
carnival societies.  March 18, 1914, Mr. Wogan was elected president of the
Industrial Bank & Trust Co capitalized at $100,000, with a surplus of
$50,000 a bank recently established in the interest of the laboring
classes.  April 28, 1884, occurred the marriage of John A. Wogan and Miss
Marguerite Beugnot, the daughter of Dr. J. F. Beugnot and Josephine
Schreiber Beugnot.  The children of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Wogan, in order of
birth, are;  Jeanne, wife of Senor Gustavo Arguedas, of Guatemala City;
Anita, wife of Arthur Wright Starlipen, residing at Pittsburg, Pa.;  John
B. student at West Point;  Maurice,  Marguerite,  Rene and  Sidney Wogan.