Louis Hogan 1869-1893

HOGAN, HENNESSY, BURKE

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 1/26/2017 at 11:11:08

Dubuque Daily Herald, October 20, 1893

LOUIS HOGAN FUNERAL
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The Cathedral Crowded During
The Services
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The funeral of Louis Hogan Sunday was very large. During the service at the Cathedral there was not a vacant seat and many stood near the doors. As the coffin was borne into the church, Mrs. Hay, at the organ, played the Lost Chord. The coffin during the service rested between two candelabras and was covered with floral offerings. Rev. Father Heelan officiated and addressed the mourners and congregation. A quartette sang and Miss Grant rendered “Rest, Spirit, Rest.”

Rev. Father Burke was prominent among the mourners. He takes the death of his protégé very much to heart.

The deceased would have graduated from Georgetown College in June. He was very much admired by his fellow students. Recently he delivered an oration on “The Future,” and it was such a fine effort that the faculty and students raised a purse, about $600, with which it was intended to present him a testimonial on the occasion of his graduation. But for the long distance his classmates would have accompanied the remains to Dubuque, and several would have come anyhow, had not the president deemed it inadvisable. His was the second death at the college in a hundred years. It was due to heart paralysis – the same malady which carried off the father at the same age attained by the son. The physicians say that even had Louis rallied he could not have survived more than six months.

Archbishop Hennessy was apprised to the death while he was in Baltimore attending Cardinal Gibbons’ episcopal jubilee. He proceeded to Georgetown and celebrated a requiem mass in the college chapel.