JOHN D. GEOGHEGAN
JOHN D. GEOGHEGAN, Register of the United States Land Office of Vancouver, was born in Galway, Ireland, December 25, 1842, a son of Michael and Mary (Sutherland) Geoghegan, also natives of that country. The parents came to America in 1846, but returned to their native isle the same year.
In 1851 they again came to this country, locating in New York city. John D. Geoghegan, the subject of this sketch, and the seventeenth in a family of twenty-one children, was reared and educated in New York. In 1862 he enlisted in the Eighteenth Regiment, United States Infantry, and served with distinction until the close of the war. In 1866 he received a First Lieutenant's commission in the regular army, but resigned his position in 1869, and for the following four years followed the sea, having previously studied navigation.
In 1872, Mr. Geoghegan came West and again entered the regular army, but after the expiration of his term of service in 1877, he engaged in farming in Washington county, Oregon, until 1879. In that year he became transportation master in the Quartermaster's department, United States Army, at Vancouver, where he remained until 1885, and from that time was engaged in mercantile pursuits until appointed Register of the United States Land office, in 1890.
In 1880 our subject was united in marriage with Mrs. Elizabeth Grubb, nee McMullen, a native of Arkansas. She has one daughter by a former marriage, Mary Grubb. Mr. and Mrs. Geoghegan have three children: Margaret M., Bessie and Ethel. Mr. Geoghegan is a stanch and steadfast Republican, and has always taken an active interest in political matters. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1889, has served as Justice of the Peace, and has been a member of the City Council. Socially, he affiliates with the F. & A. M., the A.O.U.W., of which he is now Grand Master of the State of Washington, and is a prominent member of and
Past Post Commander of the G.A.R.
An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D.,
The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, page 473
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