Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 
1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical 
Society.

OVERTON S. HOGAN.  The Grant County bar has always been one of the
strongest in the state, and judging by the young men who have been
admitted to the practice in recent years it will long retain its 
prestige.  Overton S. Hogan is one of its youngest members, but has 
already demonstrated that he will be a worthy successor to the many 
bright lawyers who have made this bar famous in the days gone by.  He 
comes from a long line of distinguished lawyers.  His father is a 
lawyer of no mean ability, his grandfather, Hubbard Smith, was one of 
the greatest lawyers who ever practiced in a Kentucky court; his uncle, 
Wilbur Smith, was a great young lawyer when he died in 1885 at the age 
of twenty-five; his cousin, Edward O'Hara, is now a brilliant young 
lawyer, and his uncle, and great uncle--James O'Hara--were both great 
lawyers and distinguished judges. So young Hogan comes by his taste for 
the law quite naturally.  He is a son of Dr. O. P. Hogan and Miss Lutie 
(Smith) Hogan, and was born in Grant County November 21st, 1847, and 
was raised on his father's farm at the town residence in Williamstown.
He attended the common schools here, the high school, and then a two 
years' course at the Kentucky State College, and a two years' course at 
Fishburns' Military Institute in Virginia.  Later he graduated in 
typewriting and shorthand at Nelson's Business College in Cincinnati.  
Coming home he entered the law office of W. W. Dickerson, and after 
three years' close application and hard reading was admitted to the bar 
some five years ago.  He has been in the office of Lawyer Dickerson 
ever since, and has been successful in his practice.  April 27, 1898, 
he was united in marriage to Miss Frances Halbert, a niece of Mrs. 
M. D. Gray.  To this union one child has been born, Smith D. Hogan,
born September 21st, 1900.  Mr. Hogan is a Democrat in politics, a fine
speaker, an active secret society worker, being a member of the local
lodge Knights of Pythias.  His future ought to be full of promise to 
him and his.

Hogan Smith O'Hara Dickerson Halbert Gray
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VA OH

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