McLaughlin of Whitehill - Donegal
Daniel McLaughlin
1832-1886
Julia McMonagle
1840-1889
Lots 1E & 1F
Daniel McLaughlin was born in 1832 in
the townland of Rathdonnell, Kilmacrenan Parish, Donegal.
He immigrated to the United States in about 1855 and
first settled in Norristown, Pennsylvania, where he
worked in an Iron Furnace under his boyhood friend Dan
Dougherty, who grew up in the nearby townland of
Cloncarney in Conwal Parish. In 1858 the two boyhood
friends parted company, Dan Dougherty moving to Iowa
where he had previously filed on government land in Cerro
Gordo County and Daniel McLaughlin moving to Fond du Lac
County, Wisconsin, where his older brother John had a
farm near Van Dyne in Friendship township.
Daniel McLaughlin enlisted in the 17th Wisconsin Volunteers in Co. C under Capt. O'Connor in February of 1862. The regiment was ordered to St. Louis, Missouri, on March 23rd of that year and did duty at Benton Barracks until April 10, when it was ordered to Pittsburg Landing, Tennesee to take part in the seige of Corinth, Mississippi. . In his declaration for original invalid pension in 1883, he stated: "That while a member of Co. C of the 17th Wisconsin Infantry ... in the service and in the line of duty at Pittsburg Landing and Corinth, Mississippi, on or about the 7th day of April, 1862, he was from exposure to rain and inclement weather prostrated by an attack of pluero pneumonia. The occupation of wagoner compelled him to be on duty night and day on the trip from Pittsburg Landing to Corinth, exposed to rain and fatigue.
Daniel was treated at the Regimental Hospital at Corinth and at Columbus Kentucky Hospital on the Mississippi River on Nov. 15, 1862; and at Sister's Hospital in St. Louis from Nov. 25 until discharged from duty, on Dec. 16, 1862.
After his discharge from the service, Daniel McLaughlin returned to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, by all accounts, a very ill man. On November 15, 1863, he married Julia McMonagle, the daughter of Anthony McMonagle and Catherine Hickey of Friendship township. In January of 1865 Daniel McLaughlin purchased the first of two lots in the City of Fond du Lac and later in that same year purchased land in Friendship township where his brother John farmed. Their first child, John Francis McLaughlin, was born on September 11, 1865. Daniel's ill health resulting from his military service may have prevented him from ever farming the land. He appears in the 1870 census in the Fifth Ward of the City of Fond du Lac as a retail grocer, living on the premises, with several boarders. All of Daniel and Julia's children were born in the City of Fond du Lac. After John Francis came James Patrick, born August 15, 1869; Daniel Joseph, born September 12, 1871; Anthony John, born August 15, 1873; and William, born November 11, 1876.
In July of 1876 Daniel McLaughlin travelled to Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, where he purchased 80 acres of land in section 25 from a Luke Walsh for $840 in what was then known as Coldwater township, directly across from the farm of his old boyhood friend, Dan Dougherty. In 1879 Daniel McLaughlin moved his family from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, to Coldwater township in Cerro Gordo County, settling on the land he had purchased a few years previously.
In 1883 his ill health took a turn for the worse and he filed an original invalid pension, stating he was partly disabled from supporting himself by manual labor by reason of his injuries suffered during his military service with the Wisconsin Volunteers and he was eventually granted a 3/4 disability pension. Daniel McLaughlin died on November 7, 1886 of chronic bronchitus at his home in Dougherty township and was buried in St. Patrick's Cemetery next door to the McLaughlin farm. A few years previously he had expanded his landholdings to include the entire southeast quarter of section 25, for a total of 156 acres, less four acres he had donated to the Catholic Church in Dougherty where the church and cemetery stand today, next door to the McLaughlin farm. In later years the family donated an additional 9 acres to the Catholic church.
Tradgedy again struck the McLaughlin family of Dougherty in 1889 as both Julia McLaughlin, Daniel's widow, and her oldest son John Francis died within a month of each, probably from a flu epidemic of some kind. Charles Gallagher, a hired hand on the McLaughlin farm was appointed the legal guardian of the surviving sons of Daniel and Julia McLaughlin and a cousin from Minnesota, Mary Hickey, came to live with the family until the boys were old enough to run the farm on their own.
Daniel Joseph McLaughlin, the second son, married Rose McMenimen, the daughter of John McMenimen and Anna Shovelin, on November 15, 1893. John McMenimen, of Franklin County, Iowa, was born in the townland of Meenadoan, Inishkeel Parish, Donegal and immigrated to the United States in about 1860, settling first in Hazleton, Pennsyvania and later moving to Iowa in 1875. In September of 1864 Daniel Joseph McLaughlin bought out his brothers' shares in the McLaughlin farm and the other sons struck out on their own.
Anthony John (Nat) soon married Mary Martha Washington on January 10, 1898 and settled in Owen township, where they raised a large family of twelve children. the youngest three dying young. Their children were: Agnes Edna McLaughlin, born October 29, 1898; John Patrick, born May 24, 1900; George Edward, born October 19, 1901; Raphael Gordon, born May 6, 1903; Ida Gertude, born September 27, 1904; Mary Esther, born February 10, 1907; Daniel Martin, born December 19, 1908; Raymond Anthony, born February 20, 1910; Julia Hortencia, born December 18, 1911; Ruth, born February 15, 1913; Lucille Frances, born April 1, 1915; and Joseph William, born March 17, 1918. The patriarch and historian of this side of the McLaughlin family of Dougherty, Ray McLaughlin, who owned a farm just down the road from the original McLaughlin homestead, died in March of 1990.
Daniel McLaughlin enlisted in the 17th Wisconsin Volunteers in Co. C under Capt. O'Connor in February of 1862. The regiment was ordered to St. Louis, Missouri, on March 23rd of that year and did duty at Benton Barracks until April 10, when it was ordered to Pittsburg Landing, Tennesee to take part in the seige of Corinth, Mississippi. . In his declaration for original invalid pension in 1883, he stated: "That while a member of Co. C of the 17th Wisconsin Infantry ... in the service and in the line of duty at Pittsburg Landing and Corinth, Mississippi, on or about the 7th day of April, 1862, he was from exposure to rain and inclement weather prostrated by an attack of pluero pneumonia. The occupation of wagoner compelled him to be on duty night and day on the trip from Pittsburg Landing to Corinth, exposed to rain and fatigue.
Daniel was treated at the Regimental Hospital at Corinth and at Columbus Kentucky Hospital on the Mississippi River on Nov. 15, 1862; and at Sister's Hospital in St. Louis from Nov. 25 until discharged from duty, on Dec. 16, 1862.
After his discharge from the service, Daniel McLaughlin returned to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, by all accounts, a very ill man. On November 15, 1863, he married Julia McMonagle, the daughter of Anthony McMonagle and Catherine Hickey of Friendship township. In January of 1865 Daniel McLaughlin purchased the first of two lots in the City of Fond du Lac and later in that same year purchased land in Friendship township where his brother John farmed. Their first child, John Francis McLaughlin, was born on September 11, 1865. Daniel's ill health resulting from his military service may have prevented him from ever farming the land. He appears in the 1870 census in the Fifth Ward of the City of Fond du Lac as a retail grocer, living on the premises, with several boarders. All of Daniel and Julia's children were born in the City of Fond du Lac. After John Francis came James Patrick, born August 15, 1869; Daniel Joseph, born September 12, 1871; Anthony John, born August 15, 1873; and William, born November 11, 1876.
In July of 1876 Daniel McLaughlin travelled to Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, where he purchased 80 acres of land in section 25 from a Luke Walsh for $840 in what was then known as Coldwater township, directly across from the farm of his old boyhood friend, Dan Dougherty. In 1879 Daniel McLaughlin moved his family from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, to Coldwater township in Cerro Gordo County, settling on the land he had purchased a few years previously.
In 1883 his ill health took a turn for the worse and he filed an original invalid pension, stating he was partly disabled from supporting himself by manual labor by reason of his injuries suffered during his military service with the Wisconsin Volunteers and he was eventually granted a 3/4 disability pension. Daniel McLaughlin died on November 7, 1886 of chronic bronchitus at his home in Dougherty township and was buried in St. Patrick's Cemetery next door to the McLaughlin farm. A few years previously he had expanded his landholdings to include the entire southeast quarter of section 25, for a total of 156 acres, less four acres he had donated to the Catholic Church in Dougherty where the church and cemetery stand today, next door to the McLaughlin farm. In later years the family donated an additional 9 acres to the Catholic church.
Tradgedy again struck the McLaughlin family of Dougherty in 1889 as both Julia McLaughlin, Daniel's widow, and her oldest son John Francis died within a month of each, probably from a flu epidemic of some kind. Charles Gallagher, a hired hand on the McLaughlin farm was appointed the legal guardian of the surviving sons of Daniel and Julia McLaughlin and a cousin from Minnesota, Mary Hickey, came to live with the family until the boys were old enough to run the farm on their own.
Daniel Joseph McLaughlin, the second son, married Rose McMenimen, the daughter of John McMenimen and Anna Shovelin, on November 15, 1893. John McMenimen, of Franklin County, Iowa, was born in the townland of Meenadoan, Inishkeel Parish, Donegal and immigrated to the United States in about 1860, settling first in Hazleton, Pennsyvania and later moving to Iowa in 1875. In September of 1864 Daniel Joseph McLaughlin bought out his brothers' shares in the McLaughlin farm and the other sons struck out on their own.
Anthony John (Nat) soon married Mary Martha Washington on January 10, 1898 and settled in Owen township, where they raised a large family of twelve children. the youngest three dying young. Their children were: Agnes Edna McLaughlin, born October 29, 1898; John Patrick, born May 24, 1900; George Edward, born October 19, 1901; Raphael Gordon, born May 6, 1903; Ida Gertude, born September 27, 1904; Mary Esther, born February 10, 1907; Daniel Martin, born December 19, 1908; Raymond Anthony, born February 20, 1910; Julia Hortencia, born December 18, 1911; Ruth, born February 15, 1913; Lucille Frances, born April 1, 1915; and Joseph William, born March 17, 1918. The patriarch and historian of this side of the McLaughlin family of Dougherty, Ray McLaughlin, who owned a farm just down the road from the original McLaughlin homestead, died in March of 1990.