[1] Hogan began home study of law after a fellow teacher presented him a copy of Blackstone.

He lost one murder case in his career when he unsuccessfully defended John William Tracey in Dec 1910.

In 1891 Hogan married Mary Collins of Washington Court House, Ohio.

Hogan married again in 1908, to Mary L. Deasy of Cincinnati, Ohio, and they had two sons and a daughter.

[1] One of the two sons with Mary Deasy was Federal judge Timothy Sylvester Hogan, who was born in Wellston in 1909 and died in 1989.