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Fifty Years Ago: A Memoir
“Alas! No help for me now; I am on the Mississippi, and must go it.”
The Berlin was picked up by aptly named ‘tug’ boats, that tugged it through sandy shallows to the deeper water…
“The Mouths of the Mississippi”
Thursday, December 14, 1848, Hogan’s ship approached the continent. As the outflow of the Mississippi River reached the Berlin, he…
John Joseph Hogan’s Missionary Life Begins – 175 years ago
One hundred seventy-five (175) years ago today, October 24, 1848, John Joseph Hogan, age 19, departed from his family home…