“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


JAMES ROGAN, farmer; born in County Down, Ireland, Aug. 12, 1801, 
and came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1835, locating in Green Bay.  Mr. 
Rogan was engaged in the distillery business in Zanesville, Ohio; he 
then moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and bought a grocery and provision 
store, which he continued until he was burnt out, when he bought a lake 
vessel, the Grampus, which he ran from Buffalo to other points on the 
lakes; on March 2, 1837, he moved, with his family, to Watertown, Wis., 
and made his claim in Sec. 4, Town 9, Range 15 east; in 1848-49, he was 
appointed lighthouse-keeper at Milwaukee; he was also one of the 
committee that named the county and town where he lived.  He married, 
May 16, 1829, Sarah Duffy, of Ireland; he has one child living - Sarah 
Jane, now Mrs. Tenney.  Mr. and Mrs. Rogan are members of St. 
Bernard’s Catholic Church..


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