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15 December 2012

Obituary of Clement F. Coogan

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(extracted from "New York Times", 14 JAN 1942, PAGE 21):

CLEMENT F. COOGAN, PITTSFIELD BANKER

President of City Savings was a Director of Insurance Firms

PITTSFIELD, Mass, Jan. 13 - Clement Francis Coogan, president of
the City Savings Bank here for the last twenty five years and a
director in several insurance companies and civic organizations, 
died here today.  He would have been 82 years old on Jan. 23.

Born in Pittsfield, Mr. Coogan had operated until 1927 a tannery
established by his father, who came to Pittsfield from Ireland in
1849.

Mr. Coogan had been identified with the City Savings Bank since 
1909.  He was the director of the Berkshire Life Insurance Company, 
Berkshire Trust Company, New England Fire Insurance Company, 
Pittsfield Coal and Gas Company and Pittsfield Boys Club.

He was a former member of the Democratic State Committee and the 
State Board of Health.  He was a leading Berkshire Catholic layman.

A bachelor, Mr. Coogan is survived by two nephews, Raymond L. 
Castello of Pittsfield and William C. Coogan of La Jolla, Calif., 
and five neices, Mrs. Joseph M. McMahon of Pittsfield, Mrs. John F. 
Malley of Boston, Mrs. John D. Murphy and Mrs. Charles de Laske of 
New York and Mrs. Ambrose C. Clogher of Englewood, N. J.

A funeral service will be held Thursday.

He was the son of Owen Coogan and Mrs. Elizabeth Booden Coogan.

In the World War period Mr. Coogan was a member of all the 
Pittsfield Liberty Loan committees.  He had served as a vice 
president and trustee of the Berkshire Athenaeum and Museum and the 
Berkshire Home for Crippled Children.  He belonged to the Knights of 
Columbus and the Park Club

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