Hubertina Dorothy Clayton Hogan (December 25, 1924 – April 14, 2017) was an American textile chemist, employed for most of her career in the United States Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command laboratories in Natick, Massachusetts.
Early life and education Hubertina "Tina" Clayton was from Trenton, New Jersey, the daughter of Joseph Aloysius Clayton and Elsie Papendick Clayton (later Dietrich). Her father was a World War I veteran. She was named for her paternal grandmother, Hubertina Brandt Clayton, who lived with her family.1940 United States Federal census returns, via Ancestry. She graduated from Trenton Cathedral High School in Trenton in 1943,Hubertina Clayton, Trenton Cathedral High School, 1943 yearbook, page 15, via Ancestry. and from Seton Hill University in 1947."Life Lines" The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association 55(12)(December 1960): 700, via Internet Archive. She pursued further studies in biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and in textile chemistry at Lowell Technological Institute. Her master's thesis was titled "The relationship between hydrogen ion concentration and a water-oil repellent fluorochemical finish" (1973).
Career From 1952 into the 1970s, Hogan was a research chemist at the Army's Clothing, Equipment, and Materials Engineering Laboratory in Natick, Massachusetts."Mangion Earns Patriotic Civilian Service Award" Army Research and Development (May-June 1976): 27. Her research involved textiles and their properties of repelling or absorbing environmental hazards in combat settings. She "developed the analytical method for determining chrome content of feathers and down." She was a member of the American Leather Chemists Association beginning in 1955.
Publications Professional publications by Hogan included articles in Textile Research Journal, Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association, and Analytical Chemistry.
"A Rapid Sole Leather Tannage with Aldehydes" (1958, with Ludwig Seligsberger and C.W. Mann) "The Actions of Acrylonitrile and Acrylamide upon Collagen" (1958, with L. Seligsberger) "Observations on the Tanning Action of Synthetic Polyphenols" (1963, with L. Seligsberger) "Determination of bis (2-chloroethyl) sulfide in a Dawson apparatus by gas chromatography" (1972, with R. L. Erickson, R. N. MacNair and R. H. Brown) Feasibility Study to Determine the Fluorine Content in Quarpel-treated Fabrics by Analysis with a 14 MeV Neutron Activation Source (1972, with Forest C. Burns and Gil M. Dias) "Sorptive Textile Systems Containing Activated Carbon Fibers" (1974, with Gilbert N. Arons, Richard N. MacNair, and Laurance G. Coffin)
Personal life Clayton married John Daniel Hogan in 1967, in Massachusetts; her husband died in 1973. She lived with her mother in Jobstown, New Jersey in the 1980s. She died in Cumming, Georgia, in 2017, aged 92 years."Hubertina Dorothy Hogan" (obituary), Forsyth County News (April 18, 2017).
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