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144 THE RISE AND PROGRESS He married Annie Connelly, who was born in Ireland and died in Spokane, November 24, 1907. Their children are Mary Frances, who married J. F. Reddy, of Medford, Oregon, and has two daughters and one son; and Eleanor B., who married James Smyth, of Spokane, and has one son and one daughter.

JAMES MONAGHAN, of Spokane, was born in Belturbet, County Cavan, Ireland, September 22, 1839, third and youngest child of John and Mary Ann (O'Riley) Monaghan of that place. Left an orphan when three years old, he was reared by his maternal grandparents in Belturbet. At the age of seventeen, in 1856, he came to the United States, and for some time lived with his brother Robert, who had established himself in medical practice in New York. In 1858 he made the journey to the Pacific northwest by way of the Isthmus of Panama, arriving at Vancouver on the Columbia River in May. He was successively employed at the ferry on the Des Chutes River near The Dalles, Oregon; on the sailboats of the upper Columbia, which in those days monopolized the traffic; on the "Colonel Wright," the first steam vessel to navigate the Columbia from Wallula to Celilo; and in the operation of the ferry across the Spokane River about twenty-one miles below the present city of Spokane, finally purchasing that ferry and conducting it until 1865, when he built the bridge over the Spokane River now known as the La Pray bridge (named for Joseph La Pray, who purchased it from Mr. Monaghan). During this period he planted the first apple trees in Spokane County. In 1869 Mr. Monaghan engaged in business in Walla Walla, and there he was married two years later. Im- mediately afterward he removed to what is now Chewelah