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Hugh J. Mohan.
[San Francisco & Sacramento Cos.]
Born in my Minnerville, Penn., March 9th, 1848; educated in public schools of that town; worked in the coal mines; spent a while learning in the machinists trade; moved to Columbus County in 1865; was elected Secretary of the Workersmen's Union; served as a delegate; return to Pottsville; was appointed a school teacher, and was elected Secretary of Democratic Committee, and acted as reporter on the Standard; went to San Bonaventura College, Allegheny, N. Y.; returned, and was elected State Secretary of the Emerald Beneficial Association, and served two terms almost; was Orator of the Day in Easton on St. Patrick's Day; also in Minersville; lectured in Reading, Philadelphia, Phoenixville, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Altoona, and Harrisburg on various subjects; took the stump for the Democratic Party, and was elected to the State Convention held at Pittsburgh, and which nominated Lieut. Governor, as a delegate, and was made Secretary of same; continued in politics, and was again elected as delegate to the Democratic State Convention held in your Erie City, Pa., which nominated Governor; became editor of the Free Press, Pottsville, Pa., and was elected a delegate to the Workingman's State Anti-Monopoly Convention held in Harrisburg, and was made Secretary of same; took an active part in securing the abolition of certain laws obnoxious to the laboring element, and in securing the passage of others of great benefit to them; went to Washington City, D.C., with the Democratic tidal wave, and was elected to a position in the U.S. Treasury; acted as correspondent of several journals; resigned position, and was accepted that both Sergeant-at-Arms of the Committee of the House of Representatives which represented articles of impeachment against W. W. Belknap, Secretary of War of the United States; also, was attached to the Committee on Postoffices and Post- roads; subsequently became Secretary to Hons. P. D. Wigginton of Cal., Lafayette Lane of Oregon, and Benoni S. Fuller of Indiana; wrote for the Irish World and other powerful journals, and when the campaign of ‘76 opened, stumped through Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland for Samuel J. Tilden, and was known by the sobriquet of the "Young Irish Orator;" delivered the address on the occasion of the badge being presented to the best shot of the International Rifle Teams of Ireland, Scotland, Australian, Canada and the United States, in the City of Washington, to Lieut. Fenton of Dublin; continued with Hons. Wigginton and Lane until Hayes was inaugurated, and then, in company with the former, arrived in Merced City, Cal., on the 15th of March, 1877; was Orator of the Day in that City on St. Patrick's Day; after remaining there a couple of months, and making a trip to Yosemite, he returned to San Francisco, where he became a reporter on the Chronicle till the municipal elections, when he spoke in almost every public hall in the City in favor of the Democratic Party, and against Chinese immigration, and was pronounced by all a first-class speaker; came to Sacramento as correspondent of the San Francisco Mail, and is now connected with the San Francisco Daily Globe.
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