T. P. Hogan, Jr.

Thomas P. Hogan, Jr., head of the T. P. Hogan Company, Oakland, was born in Oakland, October 13;1891. He is the son of Thomas P. Hogan, who at that time was operating the Hogan Lumber Co., which he established in 1888, having come to Oakland from Buffalo, N. Y., where he had been in the grocery business. His mother, who before her marriage was Miss Elizabeth Monahan, was the daughter of an old pioneer family that crossed the plains in 1852 and settled first at Hangtown, now Placeiville, Calif., and later moved to San Jose.

He was educated at the Lincoln Grammar School, Oak- land High School and St. Mary's College, from which he graduated in 1911 with a bachelor of arts degreie. At this time he contemplated entering Stanford University to take a legal course, but decided on a business career, ind went into business with his father, working first in the downto_wn office, and later being transferred to the company's Elmhurst branch as manager. In the latter part of 1914 fre was brought back to the main ofifice as assistant to his uncle, Hugh Hogan, who was president of the company.

In 1915 he was married to Miss Helen Dabney, a graduate of the University of California. They live in Piedmont. and have three fine boys, Tom III, 15, who plays football for Piedmont High School; Albert, 12, and Bob, 10.

In 1917 the business of the Hogan Lumber Co. was sold to the Tilden Lumber & Mill Co., a firm headed by E. M. Tilden. Mr. Hogan stayed with this concern for three years and then went to work as a salesman for the Paramino Lumber Co., San Francisco wholesalers, for whom he covered the E'ast Bay and Sacramento Valley territory for a y_e_ar. H_e then worked in the sales department of th; E. K. Wood Lumber Company for a time ind le{t them to start the Waterfront Sash & Door Co. He operated this busin_ess very successfully, doing a wholesale business in Northern California and Nevada, and a retail business in the San Francisco Bay district, selling the products of their o_wn factory, and also selling the well known Wheeler Osgood line of Laminex Ph-itippine and Fir doors and panels.

Expansion was decided on in 1977, and under the firm name of T. P. Hogan Company, Mr. Hogan entered the wholesale and retail lumber and millwork- business. Two years later the Waterfront Sash & Door Co. was absorbecl by the T. P. Hogan Company, and the firm now occupies a ground area of 10 acres, with a dock on the Oaklind ' Estuary. H_ere-they have every facility for handling sash and doors, lumber and millwork, and the firm is one"of the largest of its kind in Northern California. It is interesting to note that this is the oldest yard in Oakland, a lumbei business having been continuously carried on at this site for more than 40 years.

Calilornia State Retail Convention

The California Retail Lumbermen,s Association holds its Annual Convention at the Hotel Oakland. Thursdav and Friday, November 19th and 2fth. Because of the acute distress which exists in the price situation in numerous parts of the State, particularly Los Angeles and San Fran_ cisc-o, it is. propo-sed to devote a large part of the program to discussions of betterment plans, no-matter how distic the means suggested. This is bne subject that every dealer

Mr. Hogan pl,aygd baseball and Rugby football in his college- days, and his hobbies now are g:oli, tennis, hunting and fishing.

He is a member of and takes an active interest in the work of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association. and is a director of the East Bay Lumbermen,s Institute: He is a believer in modern merchandising methods, and is one of the most progressive lumbermen in the Staie: - - is affected by and interested in. The Convention needs vour attendance; you should be there to listen whether or- not you care to '_ake part in the argument. In spite of hard times a record attendance is expected because- of the vital questions to be brought up.

He is a member of the Elks Club, is a past president of the Athenian Nile Club, a member of Eait Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39, and of the Claremont Countrv Cfub.

Make your plans now to attend. You will benefit yourself and the retail situation, and you will,in addition, 6alre every opportunity for enjoyment and pleasure. The ladies are to be entertained.by fre_e trips around the neighboring cities and country. Incidentally, the football game-betweei Starrford and California takes place on Saturday, the 21st.

(From Hammond Lumber Co. Bulletin).