An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., 
The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, page 473

	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, hut 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, 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.

Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in October 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer

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