Lyman, W. D. "An Illustrated History of Walla Walla County, State of
Washington."  W. H. Lever, Publisher, 1901.  p. 414.

ROBERT McCOOL

     a farmer and stock raiser, a pioneer of 1859, was born in county Donegal,
Ireland, in 1818. He remained in his fatherland until 1858, receiving a public
school education, and then engaging in farming. When he arrived in New York, he
found to his dismay that he had to return to Liverpool, his money having been
retained there by mistake, and the complications being such that the matter
could not be adjusted without his presence.
     Mr. McCool came right back to America, however, and started via the Panama
route for Walla Walla, where he arrived, April 29, 1859. He has ever since been
engaged in farming and stock raising, his home being not far from the fort. He
now has four hundred acres on Stone creek which is still owned by the family and
farmed by his sons. Mr. McCooI is a thrifty, industrious man, and an esteemed
member of society. He was married in Bar Head, Scotland, in 1847, to Miss Maggie
O'Donnell, a native of his home county in Ireland, whose death occurred in Walla
Walla, December 11, 1896. To their union -were born six children, Hugh, a miner
and mine owner, at present engaged in buying horses for the United States
government; James, a farmer at the head of Birch creek, in Oregon; Mary Ann, who
died in Ireland; Margaret, later Mrs. James Monnaghan, of Spokane, now deceased;
Ellen, who was the wife of Edward O'Shea, of Spokane, deceased; and one that
died in infancy. The family are members of Rev. Father Flair's church in Walla
Walla.


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