Napa County Biographies

HENRY HOGAN

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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            Henry Hogan, a prominent and promising young attorney, is a native 
of California, born in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, September 2, 1860.  He 
received his primary education under private tutors, up to the age of twenty 
years, when he entered St. Mary�s College, San Francisco, where he graduated in 
1879 as Bachelor of Arts.  He commenced the study of law in the office of Judge 
Robert Crouch, now Superior Judge of Napa County, and completed his course at 
the law school in Albany, New York, graduating thereat in May, 1883.  He was 
selected by the faculty to deliver the class oration, being the first student 
from west of the Mississippi to receive the honor.  This oration, entitled �The 
Perils of Asiatic Immigration,� struck a popular chord in the hearts of the 
people of the Pacific coast, and it was generally reprinted there, while in the 
East it opened up a fuller knowledge and consideration of this important 
question, which was then being agitated in Congress in the form of the Exclusion 
Bill.
            Returning to San Francisco, he entered the law office of M. M. 
Estee, late chairman of the Republican National Committee, and chairman of the 
convention which nominated Benjamin Harrison for President.  Here he remained as 
head clerk until the fall of 1884, when he was tendered by the Democratic party 
of Napa County the nomination for District Attorney.  This he accepted, and, 
notwithstanding the fact that Napa County is strongly Republican, he was elected 
by 109 majority in the campaign in which Blaine carried the county by 300 
majority.  He was renominated in the succeeding election and was again elected.  
During his incumbency he prosecuted several murder cases, and a large number of 
important felony cases successfully.
            In July, 1886, he took a short vacation, revisiting Albany, New 
York, where he was married to Miss Emma Von Kruen Mann, only daughter of P. H. 
Mann, of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, whose acquaintance he had 
formed while at the law school in 1882.  He then established himself in the 
active practice of his profession, in which he has already built up a 
satisfactory business.  Mr. Hogan is a member of the Native Sons of the Golden 
West and Past President of Napa Parlor and a Grand Trustee of the order, also a 
member and President of the Young Men�s Institute.
 
SOURCE:  Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1891. pg. 302-303.