Background
Monaghan, James was born on September 21, 1854 in near Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. Son of J. J. and Rebecca (Murdagh) Monaghan.
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James Monaghan
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Descended from first settlers of Germantown, Pennsylvania, also by tradition from Oliver Cromwell. Civil Engineer, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, 1876.
Career
Admitted to Pennsylvania bar, 1878. Appointed Supreme Court reporter by Governor Pattison, 1892. Associate librarian Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1921.
Charter member Pennsylvania State Bar Association, Chester County History Society.
Former vice-president Philadelphia Ethical Society, member Federal Union. Former member American Academy Political and Social Science, Philadelphia Browning Society, Friends of Lafayette.
Honorary member Institute American Genealogy. Editor: Chester County Reports, 2 volumes
Monaghan’s Supreme Court Reports, 2 volumes
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reports, 19 volumes. Appellate Practice, 1 volunteer. Cumulative Annual Digest of Pennsylvania Law Reports (25 volumes combined in 7 volumes), 1899-1937.
First editor Pennsylvania County Court Reports and Pennsylvania District Reports.
Author of monographs: Lafayette at Brandywine. Falstaff’s Forbears; Bayard Taylor, Poet and Patriot, and essays on anti-slavery.
Woolman, Audubon and Thoreau. Home: (summer) Nantucket, Massachusetts.
(winter) Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania
Achievements
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Member Institute American Genealogy.
Connections
Married Anna Jackson, June 7, 1882. Children: Florence Jackson (Mistress Herbert South. Thatcher) Gertrude, Hanna Darlington, James.
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American