Bio of REGAN, John J. (b.1857), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol II, pg 825-826
JOHN J. REGAN
For the past forty years John J. Regan has been associated with his brothers,
William M. and Joseph M. Regan, in the conduct of a wholesale bakery business,
known as Regan Brothers Company of Minneapolis. John J. Regan was born in
Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 8th of March, 1857, and is the son of Michael and Mary
(Gallagher) Regan. His early education was obtained in the public schools of his
native city and the Hughes high school, and completed in St. Xavier's College,
which his two brothers also attended. When his college days were over John Regan
entered the business world, his first position being in the dry goods
establishment of Louis Stix & Company of Cincinnati, where he remained for eight
years. In 1883 he came to Minneapolis to join his older brother William, who had
started a wholesale cracker factory in this city the previous
year. A year later John Regan was followed to Minneapolis by Joseph, the
youngest of the three brothers, and since 1884 these three men have conducted
one of the most successful industrial enterprises in their city. The subject of
this sketch is the vice president of the company. The other officers, William M.
Regan and Joseph M. Regan, are mentioned elsewhere in this work under their own
names.
John J. Regan was married on the 8th of January, 1885, to Miss Isabella
MacVeigh, and they have become the parents of seven children: Eleanor,
Bernadette, Isabelle, Agnes, Virginia, John MacVeigh and Charles J. Virginia is
now Mrs. Thomas J. Kenneay of Los Angeles, California, and Isabelle married
Martin P. Kennedy of Minneapolis. Eleanor and Agnes are nuns of the Order of the
Sacred Heart, while Bernadette, who lives at home, is her father's boon
companion and best "pal." John was educated at St. Thomas College and both sons
were in military service during the World war. John enlisted for service in army
aviation and was in the training camps of this country throughout his term, the
armistice putting an end to hostilities before he was lucky enough to get orders
for overseas duty. Charles was also educated at St. Thomas College and held the
rank of colonel in the college regiment. He was in the naval aviation service,
and he, too, missed the opportunity for foreign service by being: held in home
camps until the armistice was signed.
Like his brothers, Mr. Regan gives his support to the republican party in
political matters. He is a Roman Catholic in religious faith, a member of the
Pro-Cathedral congregation of Minneapolis, and a Knight of Columbus, in which
order he has attained the fourth degree. An able business man and a gentleman
upholding the highest standards of character, Mr. Regan has long held a place in
Minneapolis as one cf the city's respected citizens.