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19 January 2020

COOGAN story appearing in "History of Luzerne County Pennsylvania"
(H. C. Bradsby, Editor), S. B. Nelson & Co., Publishers, 1893; 
PART II, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES — Co-Cu — [Page 788]
(1893):


JAMES COOGAN, 
STATIONARY ENGINEER, SUSQUEHANNA COAL CO., NANTICOKE, PA
 
"Mr. Coogan is a son of Nicholas and Julia (Dawning) Coogan, both
natives of Ireland. Mr. Coogan was educated in the village schools, 
and at the age of fourteen engaged in farming in the Sharp Mountain 
collieries at Tamaqua, where he remained seven years, when he 
entered the employ of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, at 
Summit Hill, Pa. He remained there about six years, when he 
returned to Tamaqua, in the employ of Carter & Borda, remaining 
with them until 1873, when he came to Nanticoke and accepted his 
present position; here he has since been engaged, with the exception 
of one year that he was employed at Mill Hollow, also as engineer. 
In 1877 he was united in marriage with Miss Jane Vanfossin, of 
Slocum township, this county. They have had six children: John, 
Lizzie, William (deceased), Martha, James and Flora. Mr. Coogan 
is a member of the I.O.O.F., and politically is a Republican."

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