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16 February 2009

COOGAN story appearing in "Men of Progress" ("New England
Magazine", 1898) [PAGES 245 and 246]:


"COOGAN, JOSEPH ALBERT, Physician of Windsor Locks, was born in 
that place September 14, 1849, son of James and Elizabeth (Byrne)
Coogan, who were both natives of County Dublin, Ireland, but were
married in Brooklyn, New York, in the year 1840.  Dr. Coogan's
education was received in the common school of his native place, 
and later in the Holy Cross College and St. John's College, Forham,
New York.  He entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in
1873 and after a full three-years course graduated among the Honor
men of his class.  The next ten years he spent in following his
profession in Hartford, where he succeeded in building up a large
and remunerative practice.  But failing health, the result of two
severe attacks of pneumonia, obliged him to abandon his work and 
devote himself to recovering his shattered strength.  To this end
he took a European trip and subsequently spent a winter in Los
Angeles, Southern California.  The ensuing year he spent in New
York City, where he again renewed his old association with Bellevue,
this time under the direction of his friend, the noted Professor
Edward Janeway.  Having obtained this additional experience he
determined to bestow the benefit upon the town of his birth and
the home of his early manhood, and in April of the year 1888

[photo; caption "JOSEPH A. COOGAN]

he began to practice in Windsor Locks.  During his residence in
Hartford he was a member of the High School Committee as well as
the Board of Health Commission, and physician and surgeon to all
the Roman Catholic institutions in the city, including St. 
Augustine's College and the Old People's Home of West Hartford.  He
was President of the order of the Knights of St. Patrick; Surgeon
of the First Company of Governor's Horse Guards; and Chairman of
the Democratic City and Town committees.  He is at present a Censor
of the Hartford County Medical Society and Health Officer of the
Town of Windsor Locks.  For two successive years Dr. Coogan was a
Fellow of the State Medical Society.  He was a frequent contributor
to the columns of the Connecticut Catholic in its infancy and wrote
for the published History of the Ancient Town of Windsor its article
on the early Irish settlers and settlements.  Dr. Coogan was married
in New York City September 28, 1882, to Margaret E. Brady, a former
classmate in the schools of Windsor Locks.  They have had four
children, the eldest of whom, Mary Laurentia, is deceased.  Those
still living are Joseph Thomas, Margaret Brady and John Byrne
Coogan."
 
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