http://www.cooganresearchgroup.com/crg/index.htm 19 July 2009 Obituary of James F. Coogan ____________________________________________________________________ (extracted from "Hartford Courant", 23 MAR 1980, PAGE 41A): JAMES COOGAN DIES; EDUCATOR, ECONOMIST - James F. Coogan of West Hartford, nationally known educator, economist and investment manager, died at home Friday [21 MAR 1980] of cancer... ____________________________________________________________________ (extracted from "Boston Globe", 15 APR 1980, PAGE ?): JAMES COOGAN, INVESTMENT COUNSELOR A memorial service will be conducted April 26 at 11 a.m. at St. Peter Clavier Church, West Hartford, Conn., for James F. Coogan, a professor and investment counselor, who died of cancer at his Connecticut home on March 21. He was 62. Born in Everett, Dr. Coogan was graduated from Harvard College in 1942 and served with the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II. He completed his doctorate from Harvard in 1952 in Soviet fiscal and monetary policy. Dr. Coogan was appointed to a Carnegie fellowship at Harvard's Russian Research center in 1948 by J. Kenneth Galbraith. He served as a teaching fellow at Masachusetss Institute of Technology and as a department chairman at George Washington University. Moving to Hohhokus, N.J., Dr. Coogan worked as investment vice president of the Union Service Corp. and investment adviser for the Tri-Continental Co., the Broad Street Co. and the National Investors Corp. Returning to Boston in 1965, Dr. Coogan was president and director of the B.C. Morton Investment Fund, resigning in 1968 to form the Spectra Fund, which was later acquired by the City Investing Corp. In 1974, he became investment adviser to Breck, McNeish, Nagle & Delourey of Boston until returning to teaching in 1977 as an associate professor at Bentley College. He was a professor of investments at the University of Hartford's Barney School of Public Adminstration and was working on a investment textbook at the time of his death. He leaves his wife, Jane Coogan; daughters, Christa, Jenny and Diane, all of West Hartford; brothers John J. and George J. Coogan of Everett, Thomas J. Coogan of Concord, N.H.; and a sister, Evelyn C. Spellman of Concord, N.H. ____________________________________________________________________