http://www.cooganresearchgroup.com/crg/index.htm 22 October 2011 COOGAN story _____________________________________________________________________ appearing in "History of Brown County, OH" (W. H. Beers & Co. 1883): "James Patrick Coogan, farmer, P.O. Fayetteville, son of Hugh and Bridget (Dyer) Coogan, was born in Wicklow County, Ireland in 1807. He was raised on a farm and was also engaged in the butchering business with his father. He married July 29, 1836, Elizabeth Ward, by whom he had six children, four living [1883] Eliza, Hugh, John, and Bridget. They emigrated to this country in 1842 and settled in Cincinnati, where they resided for a number of years and where his wife died of cholera in 1851." "James married again in Cincinnati in 1853 to Elizabeth, daughter of Laughlin and Ellen (O'Connell" Byrne. They had nine children, seven living [1883] Mary A., Julia, Ellen, James, Michael, William, and Joseph. In 1855, he went to Perry Township and bought sixty acres of land three miles southeast of Fayetteville, where he lived in 1883. The family are members of the Saint Patrick Catholic Church." ____________________________________________________________________