Rohan

Biography of James V. Rohan

James V. Rohan, one of Racine’s most enterprising and energetic manufacturers, president of the Belle City Incubator Company, was born in Racine in 1867, a son of James and Delia Rohan, who arrived in this County about 1840 after coming to the new world from County Limerick, Ireland, of which district they were natives. James V. Rohan was reared under the parental roof and obtained what education he could in the public schools up to the age of twelve and one-half years, when it seemed necessary for him to provide for his own support and at that time he became … Read more

Biography of John Ambrose Rohan

John Ambrose Rohan, sole owner of the John A. Rohan Boiler Works Company of St. Louis, was born January 1, 1874, in the city where he now resides. His father, John Rohan, was a native of Callan, in the county of Kilkenny, Ireland, his birth there occurring in 1833. On crossing the Atlantic to the new world he landed at New Orleans and made his way northward to St. Louis, where he took up his abode on the 1st of January, 1849. He continued a resident of this city for almost six decades, passing away on the 25th of March, … Read more