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14 October 2012

COOGAN story appearing in "Centennial History of the Town of
Millbury" ("Committee Appointed by Town", 1915) [PAGE 33/92]:

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MICHAEL COOGAN

Michael Coogan was born in Ireland where he was trained to be a
gardener, but as a young man he emigrated to America and came to
Millbury.  He worked at first for the Waters and Goodell Company
when their mill was built at Bramanville. He afterward purchased
from this company a small mill at Pleasant Falls, on the road to
Wilkinsonville, where he worked on shoddy.  In 1850, a little
below the Greenwood Crossing on North Main St., he built a small
mill which later became known as the "Burling Mill."  The last
years of his life were spent with his adopted daughter, Mrs.
Callahan, on the Grafton Road, near the County Bridge.

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