Samuel
H Brogan
Submitted by
Richard McCormick 22 July 2022
Samuel Brogan was born in 1840 in Newport, the son of James and Nancy Brogan. He enlisted in the Union Army as a Private on 20 Apr 1861 serving Co G 5th Infantry as a 3rd Assistant Engineer Regiment and was discharged 3 Sep 1861. His wife Emma F (nee Swain) Brogan filed for a pension on July 3, 1890.
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Cincinnati Daily Star, 27 April 1875
Samuel Brogan, a son of Mr. James Brogan, residing on Jefferson street, near York, was caught in the fly wheel of an engine at Augusta Ky. this morning and terribly mangled. He will probably not recover.
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Cincinnati Commercial, 29 April 1875
Samuel Brogan, the engineer of the ferryboat Dr. Mackey, who met with the accident on the boat, near Augusta, on Monday last, died Tuesday at noon at Thomas' Landing. His remains came down yesterday and the City of Portsmouth, accompanied by his wife and children and his father's family, who resides in Newport, Kentucky.
His remains were taken from the boat and interred at Spring Grove Cemetery. His widowed wife and fatherless little girl and boy have the heartfelt sympathies of the good people of Thomas Landing and Augusta, Kentucky, who did all in their power to alleviate his sufferings. He was thirty-five years old, was raised in Newport, Kentucky, and was employed on the Newport ferry boats for a number of years.