Biography

07/04/1824 - 03/03/1899

McDONOUGH, Patrick, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, July 4, 1824 in County Galway, Ireland; captain, Company B, 31st Regiment, 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Reserves (1861-1862, Civil War); lieutenant colonel, 31st Regiment, 2nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Reserves (1862-1864, Civil War); cooperage apprentice, Philadelphia; manager, mercantile store; collector of water rents, Philadelphia; tipstaff, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; elected as Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1859 and 1860; not a candidate for reelection to the House; city excavator, Philadelphia; member, Hibernia Engine Company, No. 1; died, March 3, 1899 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Old Cathedral Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.