Preston County, West Virginia          Biography of Hubert Garret CROGAN

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg. 217-218

Hubert Garret Crogan is one of the popular and successful younger
members of the Preston County bar and has been practicing law at
Kingwood for the past ten years.  He is a nephew of the distinguished
Kingwood lawyer and banker, Patrick J. Crogan.

His grandparents were James and Rose (Doyle) Crogan natives of County
Roscommon, Ireland who were married in Maryland and on moving to West
Virginia settled on a farm near Newburg, where James Crogan died in
1858.  John F. Crogan, father of Hubert G., was the oldest of four
children and was only eight years of age when his father died.  He had
to become the chief reliance of the family in the matter of labor
required for operating the farm.  He was born in Maryland, but
practically all his life has been spent in Preston County, where he had
only the advantages of the country schools during and after the war.  He
is a farmer, has been employed on public works and is still living at
the old homestead at Newburg.  John Crogan has done his duty as a
public-spirited citizen and has been a member of the County Court and a
member of the Board of Education of Lyon District.  He is a republican.
He married Catherine Frances Wilson.  Her father, Eugenus Wilson was
born in Monongalia County West Virginia and followed the pursuits of
farmer, cabinetmaker and operator of a feed and flouring mill, the scene
of these activities being in Reno District, south of Tunnelton.  Eugenus
Wilson married Julia Jeffreys and of their thirteen children the
survivors are:  Mrs. Amanda Bolyard of Reno District; Mrs. Melissa
Fortney of Independence West Virginia; Mrs. Adaline Shaw of Morgantown;
Mrs. Samantha Spring of Fairmont; Sarah, wife of Jacob Bolyard of
Grafton; and Mrs. John F. Crogan.  John F. Crogan and wife had the
following children:  Addie, wife of Thomas E. Pyles of Newburg; Hubert
G; Lloyd F., of Hiawatha Utah; Walter G. of Grafton; Bessie M., widow of
Oliver M. Bell of Newburg; and John Dewey, a student at Toledo
University in Ohio.

Hubert G. Crogan was born on the old homestead at Newburg, April 3,
1880. He attended the country schools, and as a boy showed a faculty of
rapid mastery of subjects of knowledge.  When he left home he became a
country schoolteacher and out of his earnings advanced his education by
attending the West Liberty State Normal School where he was graduated in
1907.  Then for a little more than a year he was assistant postmaster of
Tunnelton, and resigned to enter the law school of West Virginia
University at Morgantown.  Mr. Crogan graduated in law in June 1910 and
then located at Kingwood and began practice with his uncle.  His
practice embraces cases both in the civil and criminal branches of the
law and he is a member of the Preston County Bar Association and a
leader in the republican politics of the county.

Mr. Cogan cast his first presidential vote for Colonel Roosevelt.  He
has been secretary and is now chairman of the Republican County
Executive Committee.

December 14, 1919 Mr. Crogan married Miss Hazel Snyder, daughter of
Allison W. and Laura (Jenkins) Snyder, farmers near Albright in Preston
County.  Mrs. Crogan is one of six children.  To their marriage was born
on October 8, 1920, a son Patrick Richard Crogan.


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