This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Joyful Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.king/4224.2.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From "Genealogical Material in Oregon Donation Land Claims" 210 MONAHAN (MONOHAN), Martin, Douglas Co; b. 1820, Ross Co, Oh; Arr Ore 20 July 1853; SC 1 Apr 1854; m Isabella 15 Oct 1851, Des Moines, Ia. Signed O of A 5 Apr 1862. Aff: Leonard Buel, Samuel (X) Blakely, James A Abbott, Andrew J Chapman. Vol III. Oregon donation land claim applications. Filed in the Roseburg Land Office 3_15 So he married Isabella 15 Oct 1851 in Des Moines, Iowa Martin is found on the 1850 Census in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa (spelled Monahon) age 28, born Ind, listed as a Hostler, residing in a hotel Look at the documents for this listing on rootsweb http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mikki9&id=I011254 This is part of what is quoted on that page: History Of King County, Washington by Clarence B. Bagley The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company Chicago--Seattle 1929 Biography of Martin Monohon This is the background of Martin Monohon from Bagley's History of King County Volume 2 pages 866, 869 and 870. Monohon is the namesake of the lumber milling community that thrived on the eastern shore of Lake Sammamish for many years. Martin and Isabella ( Speer ) Monohon, the former a native of Crawford County, Indiana, while the latter was born in that part of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in which the City of Pittsburgh is now situated. Martin Monohon went to Iowa in 1847 and was married in Des Moines, that state. In 1852 he sold most of his horses, keeping four of the best, and also retaining some of the strongest wagons. Thus well outfitted he started on the long and arduous journey to the Oregon country. Mr. Monohon went over the old Barlow route and endured many hardships and privations while crossing the plains but arrived safely at his destination. Locating near Roseburg, in Douglas County, he filed a donation claim of six hundred and forty acres, consisting of timber and prairie land, and he cleared and developed the place, which was devoted to general farming and stock raising. During the '50s he volunteered for service in the Rouge River Indian war in southern Oregon, in which his brothers-in-law, James and William Speer, also fought as volunteers. If it is accurate, Isabella was born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (near where Pittsburgh is now) Since you know her parents' names, you may be able to find them on a census record in PA Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.