Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical Society. O. P. HOGAN. Clever and sociable, with plenty of good common sense, and withal a cultured and highly educated gentleman. These qualities are rarely ever so happily blended in the same person as they are in the subject of this sketch. A graduate with the first honors of the business school, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., and the Medical University of New York, a registered physician. He established the largest and best equipped breeding and sale stock farm in Northern Kentucky and operated it from 1885 to 1894. Was Judge of the Williamstown Police Court for five years and clerk and assistant to Attorneys E. H. Smith and W. N. Hogan, his brother, during this time. Represented Grant County in the General Assembly of Kentucky in 1894-95. These services seemingly developed a fondness for the law and public questions, and at the October term of the Grant Circuit Court, 1897, he was admitted to the bar, passing a most creditable examination. At that time we predicted for him a successful future, and it is being fully realized, for he has a fair share of the practice in the courts and is the attorney for several large estates, and controls and manages more property, consisting of farms and other real estate and personalty than any other one person in the county, and is now regarded as one of the county's most successful lawyers and substantial business men. He is a prominent and active member of the I.O.O.F. and the Christian Church; has sometimes represented the order in the State Grand Lodge and has been Secretary or President of the Convention of Christian Churches in Grant County for the past three years. In politics he has always been a Democrat, and has rendered the party much valuable service, especially as a campaign orator. He is the youngest of nine children born to O. P. and Sarah K. Hogan (nee Kendall), and was born and reared on the farm now owned by J. B. O'Neal, in the Dry Ridge precinct. Since 1895 he has resided at the old homestead Williamstown, Ky. Hogan Smith Kendall O'Neal = VA NY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/grant/hogan.op.txt