By 1910, The Reporter was left as a clerk to the Census Bureau on the behalf of Noah Magowan. Editor of The Reporter, W.D. Johnson, was moved to Washington, D.C. for his editorial in the Lexington Leader about his support for former United States President, William Taft. This brought the Magowan brothers to Washington, D.C. also where John Magowan managed The Reporter until his death. During that time, Noah Magowan was a member of the Committee on Ways and Means of the National Emancipation Commemorative Society. After being employed as a clerk at the post office in 1920, Noah Magowan became president of the Post Office Relief Association.
Noah Magowan went on to marry a Mt. Sterling, Kentucky school teacher named Mary. She later became the Grand Worthy Counselor of the Independent Order of Calanthe in 1904. Noah also taught in 1887 and later became a teacher at the Colored Western School in 1890 in Paris, Kentucky. Noah Magowan later died in 1945. Him and Mary had one son, Paul.
John Magowan became a member and officer of the Colored Knights of Pythias in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky along with being a newspaper printer and publisher. He married Mayner and they later settled in Harts in Montgomery County, Kentucky. John Magowan died July 15, 1913.