Clark, Robert Carlton, Ph.D. "History of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Vol. 3.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1927. p. 205.
 
J. T. BOGART

     One of the oldest farms in Lane county is that now owned and operated by J.
T. Bogart on section 21, township 17, range 3 west, and which has been in the
possession of his family continuously since 1852, a period of seventy-five
years. This fine old place has always ranked among the best farms in this
locality and, under the good management of the present proprietor is still very
productive. J. T. Bogart was born here. June 9, 1888, and is a son of A. G. and
C. M, (Withers) Bogart. His father was born in Iowa, June 25, 1844, and his
mother in Corvallis, Oregon, November 27, 1856. The grandfather, Garret Bogart,
brought his family from Iowa to Lane county, Oregon, in 1852, and took up a
donation claim of three hundred and twenty acres, on sections 16 and 21,
township 17, range 3 west, all of which was prairie land, located three miles
northeast of Eugene. There he developed a good farm,. which he cultivated to the
time of his death. A. G. Bogart was about eight years of age when he came to
Lane county and his education was obtained in the district school, which at that
time was known as the Bogart school, being located on his father's land. He
remained at home until attaining manhood, when he engaged in farming at Cottage
Grove, Lane county, where he remained until about 1890, when he returned and
took charge of the homestead continuing its operation until shortly prior to his
death, which occurred July 17, 1911. His wife died June 16, 1924. They were the
parents of three children, of whom one died in infancy, while Mamie died when
fourteen years of age.
     J. T. Bogart the other member of the family, attended the district school
and had three years' work in the high school at Eugene, after which he took a
commercial course in the Eugene Business College. For awhile after putting aside
his text-books he was employed in a furniture store in Eugene, and then opened a
tea, coffee and spice store in that city, which he sold about a year and a half
later. During the following two years he ran a stock ranch near Lorane, Lane
county, but in 1912 sold out and came back to the home place, where he has lived
to the present time. He now owns one hundred and seven acres of the farm, on
which he runs a large flock of pure-bred Shropshire sheep, and also raises
abundant crops of hay and grain. In 1920 he erected a fine, modern house, which
replaced the old brick house built by his grandfather about 1865 and which was
the first brick farm house in Lane county. The first home on the place was a log
structure, erected by his grandfather when he first located on the land. In
addition to the supervision of his farm, Mr. Bogart has for four years been
employed as a bridge foreman, having supervision of construction work on highway
and county bridges, for which he has shown himself well qualified.
     Mr. Bogart has been married twice. On September 6, 1909, he wedded Miss
Angie Owen, to which union was born a son, Belden, on September 16, 1911. On
November 16, 1925, Mr. Bogart was married to Mrs. Margaret (Summers) Jackson, a
native of Missouri, who by a former marriage has a daughter, Wilma, born May 21,
1915, and now attending school. Mr. Bogart is a member of Eugene Lodge, No. 357,
B. P. 0. E., and Eugene Lodge, F. 0. E. He is regarded as a splendid citizen,
one of his community's most progressive farmers, a man of sterling integrity and
fine personal character, and has added prestige to a family name already honored
throughout this section of the county.


     
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in February 2012 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.