Latrobe Pennsylvania Cogans
I am researching Cogans in western Pennsylvania and encourage anyone working along the same line to contact me. This lineage came to western PA prior to 1810 and primarily encompasses three groups. One is James who married Margaret Snyder Beckwith in 1809. Another is Jacob Ferdinand who married Maria Weaverling in 1829. The third is Jesse Cogan b. 1779 (location unknown) and married Anne (last name unknown) and lived in the Youngstown area. I am descended from this third group, but suspect that all three are related though I have no evidence. There was also a William Cogan living in Pitts Town (now Pittsburgh) around 1750 and he maybe the tie that connects these three families. Please feel free to e-mail and discuss. I have several thousand hours of accumulated data.
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You wouldnt have any info on a John Cogan from Providence Township or Greenfield Township, that may have been married to a Catherine may also be spelled COGIN, and may have moved to Sandy Township, TUSC CO, Ohio
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I have a Willis Cogan married to a Fanny Beckwith around 1901 Cleveland, OH
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Cogan in Providence Township
According to my research, there were two John Cogan's in the area around that time. One shows up in the 1790 census in Northumberland County, which at that time was an enormous area that contained most of North Central Pennsylvania.
By 1800, he had settled in Bedford County in Greenfield Township of Bedford County.
By 1820, there are two Johns, one is presumably the same John living in Greenfield Township, and the other further west in Hopewell Township of Washington County. At the same time a Catherine Cogan appears in Union Township of Huntingdon County about forty miles away from John in Greenfield. This is also the time that my Jesse shows up about 75 miles west in Westmoreland County.
By 1820, there is a John Cogan living in Colerain Township of Bedford County but it is unclear if he is the John that was living in Washington County, or the John that was living in Bedford County. Since the John in Washington County seems to be heading west, he is the more likely of the two to be in Ohio by 1820. At the same time, Catherine Cogan has moved to Providence Township in Bedford County, perhaps 10 miles from John in Colerain.
For the record, there is a John Cogan and a Catherine Cogan (Cogens), as well as a William and Richard, as far back as 175? in the Pennsylvania Archives.
I'm doing this from work so I don't have complete information here, but by 1840 Catherine and John have disappeared, but Benjamin, Daniel and Jacob have all appeared in the same area of Bedford County.
Hope some of this is helpful. - Ken
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I have a list of children of John if it may help any; Jacob, Margaret Daniel(b, 1802), Elizabeth(b, 1803), Samuel, John, Joseph(b, 1812), Michael(b, 1810), Catherine(b, 1814), Martha(b, 1814) These are possibles nothing to directly link them to John Cogan.
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In response to Ronald and Ken. I have a Jacob Cogan born in Pennsylvania and probably died in Michigan with grandchildren born in Coshocton and Holmes County, Ohio. The only child of which I am aware is Philip. We have a marriage for Jacob Cogan and Lydia Sellen. Do you know anything more about this Jacob Cogan? As mentioned Jacob was listed in the 1830 Ohio census, Tuscarawas County, Sandy Township. His son, Philip (b 1817), married Margaret Hoover. The Jacob Cogans listed in the Bedford, PA cemeteries are too late to be this man but there is a Jacob Cogan in 1820 in Bedford County, Woodbury Township. Could this Jacob be the one you have listed as the son of John? There is also a Jacob Kogen in Tuscarawa County, Sandy Township in the 1820 Ohio census, and there is a John there, too, who is over 45.
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Jacob Cogan m Lydia Sells on 13 June 1813, they had the following children, 12 i. John (1817-) 13 ii. Margaret Ann 14 iii. Samuel (1831-) 15 iv. Noah (1833-) 16 v. Elizabeth (1837-)
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I show a Philip Cogan married to a Nancy CHAMBERLING marriage: 23 Mar 1837 Tuscarawas, Ohio
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Thanks for your help. Phillip had 12 children, we believe, and most of the names you list for his potential siblings, other than Noah, are represented. Phillip's first son was Jacob, born 1851, then Margaret Elizabeth, John, Albert Basil, Phillip Jr., Mary Ann, William, Burl and Samuel (born 1871). The other children would have been fifth, seventh and 11th in the birth order.
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Could have been a first marriage. His wife, Margaret Hoover, lied about her age and married George Bagley, a man a number of years her junior, and "went West" just after the turn of the century.
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