McDonogh School - Dragon Yearbook (Owings Mills, MD)

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FAMILY BACKGROUND F the ancestry 0f ?ohn MeDonogh hut little is known. The name, as well a: the tradition, indicate that he helonged to the sturdy S eoteh-Irz'sh stock that sent :0 many immigrants to Pennsylvania and the Carolinas. It 2': from these immigrants that are descended many of ourjfnestfamilz'es. One hundred and Jffty year: of American life have weakened neither the courage, the :elf- reliance, nor the undaunted devotion to principle which more than a century of permeation had woven into the .hhre of the race. W hether our henefaetorKv granayather, Henry MeDonogh, was one of theye immigrant: is not known. H owever, we jina' him settled in York County, Penn- sylvania, in the early part of the eighteenth century. There were horn to him three sons andfour daughters, the eldest of whom was ?ohn McDonogh, Sr. Of the early lg'fe of :70hn McDonogh, Sn, but one authentic incident is known. zit eighteen yearJ of age he enliytea' under Wayhz'ngton in the unfor-

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.xxW WM ADMINISTRATION dNY dead and gone philane thropists, could they come back to earth and observe how little good their benefactions have accom- plished, might keenly regret the lack of foresight in those in whom was placed the responsibility for carrying out their wishes. If John McDonogh is Cognizant of the zeal and enthusiasm with which the Administration has turned his dream into a living reality, he will undoubtedly bestow his blessings upon those who have made it so fruitful to others.

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tunate Braddock Expedition and accompanied him in the retreat after Brad- a'oelchs death. In the periaa'fottowing the war, McDonogh returned to spend some years in his native county. He later married and moved to Philadelphia, where his jirst child was horn in 1759. He soon returned to York, however, and eoatinaea' to reside there until ahoat 1774. It was in this period that he lost his wife and, prohahty, the children of this marriage. I n 1768 he married Eliza- heth Wilkins, andjive years later moved to Baltimore. Twelve children, six sons and six daughters, were the fr'ait of this union, of which ?ohn ZVIeDonogh, the philanthropist, was the sixth child and eldest son. The plans of the elder 707m MeDoaogh were rudely interrupted by the out.- hreale cyf the Revolutioaary W ar. Belonging to a race notedfor its resistance to oppression, and himself a soldier, it can readily he understaaa' that he was not long in jaining the ranks of the rehels. He servedfor the greater part of the war under Washiizgtmz, in whom hefoand ah unfailingfriehd; infaet, Washington never visited Baltimore without stopping at the 1WeD0720gh home. dfter the war Mr. MeDonogh devoted himsetf t0 the support amt training 0f hisfamity. 1ft the time afyoahg yohnhs hirth in 1779, he was a man of considerable property and a respected citizen of Baltimore, in which city there was a proverh, Wis honest as old ?ohn MeDonogh. SCENE ON OLD FREDERICK ROAD, WEST BALTIMORE, ABOUT 1800