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Denis P. Hogan

Cass County

Memorial to the Honorable Dennis P. Hogan of Cass County

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Dennis P. Hogan, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

Dennis P. Hogan was born near Farley, Iowa, August 29, 1869, of Irish parentage. He died May 28, 1950. He was one of eleven children of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hogan. In 1870, he moved with his parents to Adams County, Iowa. He attended rural school, the Corning High School and St. Benedict’s College at Atchison, Kansas. In 1889, he entered a bank at Wallace, Nebraska, as bookkeeper and assistant cashier. He returned to Iowa in 1894, and in 1897 organized and became cashier and active head of the Farmers Savings Bank at Massena, with which he was connected over forty years. He devoted much time to farm interests; organized and became secretary of the Massena District fair, and for a time was manager of the Massena Telephone Company.

In 1901, Mr. Hogan was married to Dolly M. Snelson, who survives him.

He was elected State Representative from Cass County in 1910, serving in the Thirty-fourth General Assembly. He became president of the Federal Land Bank of Omaha after the enactment of the Federal Farm Loan Act, and guided its growth for nineteen years until it became the largest in the Federal Land Bank system. He was a member in 1913 of the Federal Agricultural Commission which was sent to Europe to study farm credit organization. He was always interested in farming and farm problems. His farm in Cass County was rated highest in Iowa for hog production in 1934 and previously was third for many years. He was a member of the pioneer group in the Rotary Club at Omaha, where he resided for many years, of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce and a Republican.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-fourth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Dennis P. Hogan, the people, not only of Cass County, but of the entire State of Iowa, have sustained a great loss.

Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

G. T. KUESTER,

ARCH W. MCFARLANE,

ARTHUR C. HANSON,

Committee.

House District 30