Kenneth C.(Casey) Hogate Mr. Hogate served as the liaison from one great Dow Jones & Company man, Clarence W. Barron, to the next history-shaper, Bernard "Barney" Kilgore. But more than a man between two greats, Hogate was a visionary himself who rose quickly through the ranks.
He lobbied for and got bigger salaries for his staffers. A DePauw University graduate, he looked to his alma mater for recruits and found Mr. Kilgore, among others. He also hired William Henry Grimes, the paper's first Pulitzer Prize winner, and William F. Kerby, who would go on to head Dow Jones & Co.
Perhaps his greatest accomplishments were keeping the aspiring paper afloat during the difficult Depression years and placing an emphasis on developments in Washington.
Mr. Hogate was a low-key, soft-spoken man. Mr. Barron considered him the son he never had and personally groomed him to take over. Just two years after joining the Detroit bureau in 1921, Mr. Hogate was christened managing editor at age 26. In that post, he introduced stock-market quotations and various columns to the paper.
At the time of his death on Feb. 11, 1947, he was chairman of the board for Dow Jones & Co.
Mr. Hogate, who learned newspapering from his father, a small-town Indiana newspaper editor, said, "The Wall Street Journal looked like a chance to handle history."