Henry S. Hogan

Life and Orange County connections

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1. Winter 1933-1934 A three-mile rural power line from Chapel Hill to Calvander is built with federal money Built in the winter of 1933-34 as a Civil Works Administration project, the line ran about three miles out the Hillsboro road from Chapel Hill to Calvander, connected at Carrboro to the University Consolidated Service Plants, which supplied part of the material. Henry Hogan, who farmed near Calvander with his brother, and his friends gave the cedar trees for its 107 poles, and the book says the Hogan brothers supplied the poles when funds ran short. In late February 1934 the Chapel Hill Weekly expected current to reach 22 families within about a month. The book says it was the first rural electric line in the United States built with federal funds. People: George H. Lawrence, Henry S. Hogan, Don S. MathesonSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 249 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 23, 1934, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, July 13, 1934, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 21, 1934, p. 2; Chapel Hill Weekly, February 12, 1937, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 3, 1939, p. 4
2. July 2, 1934 Orange County commissioners order a study of power lines for farm homes After the success of the Civil Works power line to Calvander, the commissioners asked farm agent Don Matheson, county accountant G. W. Ray and relief administrator George H. Lawrence to study a network of rural power lines with D. S. Weaver of State College. The officials ruled out a Public Works loan, judging that so few customers could not carry the debt, and hoped for direct federal aid. People: George H. Lawrence, Gilbert W. Ray, W. P. Berry, John Hodge Hanner, Henry S. Hogan, Carl T. Durham, Don S. MathesonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, July 6, 1934, p. 1
3. by March 19, 1943 Orange County dairymen send buyers to Wisconsin and Tennessee for high-producing cows To raise the area's milk supply, Orange County commercial dairymen sent buyers to Wisconsin and Tennessee for more than a hundred Holstein, Jersey and Guernsey cows, with the Farmers' Mutual Exchange Livestock Market of Hillsboro financing the shipments. Henry S. Hogan and Walter I. Simmons went to Wisconsin with orders for 70 Holsteins and authority to spend up to $15,000. People: Henry S. Hogan, Charles W. StanfordSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 19, 1943, p. 1
4. by February 8, 1945 Dairy farmers buy a Chapel Hill lot for a cooperative milk plant About 50 dairy farmers from Orange, Durham and Chatham counties bought a lot on Roberson Street in Chapel Hill for a plant to pasteurize and bottle milk and make ice cream. Henry Hogan and Charles Stanford led the project with help from Representative John W. Umstead Jr.; building waited on the government's release of materials. People: Charles W. Stanford, John W. Umstead Jr., Henry S. HoganSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 8, 1945, p. 3
5. by February 7, 1946 The Bank of Chapel Hill launches a county corn-growing contest To lift Orange County corn yields, then about 20 bushels an acre, the Bank of Chapel Hill offered a $100 war bond and other prizes to the farmer, white or Black, who grew the most corn on one acre. Twenty-four farmers had entered by early May, with entries closing June 1. People: Garland O. Reitzel, Henry S. HoganSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 7, 1946, p. 1
6. March 12, 1946 Farm leader H. S. Hogan buys the Nash-Kollock school property in Hillsborough The Cates heirs deeded the Nash-Kollock property in Hillsborough, lot and old school building, to H. S. Hogan, a director and secretary of the Farmers Mutual Exchange. The revenue stamps showed a price above $2,000, and the paper expected the Exchange to build a warehouse there while efforts to restore the decaying building had stalled. People: Henry S. HoganThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 10, 1946, p. 1
7. by August 14, 1947 The Neuse River Soil Conservation District reports conservation plans on 885 Orange County farms Marking ten years of soil conservation districts, chairman Henry Hogan of the Neuse River district reported that its technicians had helped 885 Orange County farmers plan and begin full soil and water conservation programs on 102,750 acres. People: Henry S. HoganSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 14, 1947, p. 1
8. December 1 to 6, 1947 Orange farmers elect the county's first soil conservation committee In the first election held under the 1947 amendment to the state soil conservation districts law, voters chose H. S. Hogan, Clyde Roberts and J. L. Scotton for three-, two- and one-year terms on the Orange County committee of the Neuse River Soil Conservation District. The committee was to set county goals, and its chairman was to sit on the district's board of supervisors. People: Clyde Roberts, Henry S. HoganSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 11, 1947, p. 1
9. March 30, 1948 Thousands watch a one-day conservation makeover of the Milton Latta farm near Schley Schley Grange No. 710 staged what was billed as North Carolina's first soil conservation field day on Milton Latta's 195-acre farm northeast of Hillsboro, where about 250 volunteers with 25 to 30 tractors, bulldozers and earth movers built terraces, a fish pond, pastures, strip crops and wildlife borders that would take an ordinary farmer three to five years. Estimates of the crowd ran from three thousand to ten thousand. People: Don S. Matheson, Robert L. Mohler, Henry S. HoganSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 1, 1948, p. 1
10. by January 1949 Henry S. Hogan heads the Neuse River Soil Conservation District supervisors By January 1949 Henry S. Hogan of Chapel Hill was chairman of the Neuse River Soil Conservation District's supervisors and of Orange County's soil conservation committee. The News of Orange County said he had been active in the soil conservation movement since 1938.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 10, 1949, p. 1 (Hogan To Report On Conservation)
11. January 1950 Reid Roberts is elected president of the Orange County Board of Agriculture At its first meeting of 1950 the county Board of Agriculture, made up of leading farmers, elected Reid Roberts, a Hillsboro poultry farmer, president and Henry S. Hogan vice-president, and recommended a six-point farm program stressing pasture, livestock, rural telephones and forestry. People: Henry S. HoganSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 12, 1950, p. 1
12. December 18, 1950 County commissioners and the welfare board meet on the rising cost of welfare Meeting jointly, the county commissioners and the board of public welfare looked for ways to slow the growth of welfare costs, chiefly the lengthening old age assistance rolls and the support of children born out of wedlock or abandoned. They agreed to ask the county's legislators for laws making all able children help support aged parents, requiring sworn statements of the children's means, allowing liens to stop transfers of property, and strengthening support and abandonment laws. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Grady A. Brown, Henry S. HoganSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 21, 1950, p. 1