Biography of 	McDonogh, John Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller September 2000

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John McDonogh was born at Baltimore, Md., December 29, 1779, of Irish parents--John and
Elizabeth McDonogh, and in 1800 was sent by his employers as supercargo in a ship to Liverpool
with instructions to take back a cargo of goods suitable for the Louisiana trade, to New
Orleans.  Arriving here October 3, 1800, he sold the greater part of the cargo to merchants and
established a store to sell the balance.  His plans were all successful, and loading the ship
with Louisiana products he sailed for Baltimore.  In 1804 he was given an interest in a similar
enterprise, and on his arrival here he determined to make the city his home.  Shortly after he
and Shepherd Brown .entered into a partnership which continued until the death of Brown In
1815, after which McDonogh carried on business alone.  He failed in 1810, to win the love of
Micaela Leonarda, afterward the Baroness de Pontalba and in 1842 did not succeed in winning
Miss Johnson.  He afterward amassed an immense fortune and finally died in 1850.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 490-491.  Published by the
Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.