BIO:  John H. Wogan, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Manchester Township, Pg 145

JOHN H. WOGAN was born in Manchester Township, December 16, 1837, upon the farm 
purchased by John Wogan from the sons of William Penn.  From John it descended 
to his son, John, Jr., then to George, then to another John H.  Subject was the 
only son, with one sister.  He was educated at different academies in 
Pennsylvania.  On his becoming of age he went into business for himself, such as 
farming, raising and dealing in leaf tobacco, handling as many as 1,600 cases at 
400 pounds per case in a single year.  At the age of twenty-one he was married 
at Lancaster, Penn., to Sarah Wolf.  They had six children:  Caleb L., Annie W., 
George, William W., Edmond and Ira Park.  Mr. Wogan is an active Republican, was 
school director two terms, is a director in the Dover Fire Insurance Company, 
and is a member and manager of the York Agricultural Society.  He owns and 
manages 800 acres of land in York County, employing from ten to thirty-four 
hands, all the year around.  He is also a member of the firm of Wolf & Co., at 
Mount Wolf.  His father died aged eighty years but his mother is still living, 
now seventy-five years old.  The Wogans are of Scotch-Irish descent.  His mother 
was Margaret Hay, daughter of John Hay, and sister of Cols. George and Alexander 
Hay, who served in the late war.  Mr. Wogan’s grandfather, John, was a fifer in 
the Revolutionary war.  The Wogans first settled in Maryland, but afterward came 
to York County, and settled a large tract of limestone land, on the west bank of 
the Susquehanna River, then in Lancaster county, and in New Holland, then an 
important lumber point.  They had then five farms and owned a number of fox 
hounds, and the same breed of hounds are still on the place, and are used by the 
Wogans in fox chases.  The present owner is an expert fox hunter.