Rev. Patrick T. Monaghan Biography


	This biography appears on page 1036 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				REV. PATRICK T. MONAGHAN.  

	Rev. Patrick T. Monaghan, pastor of St. Christina,s Roman 
Catholic church at Parker and director of the Sioux Falls apostolate, 
was born in Jamesville, Pennsylvania, October 20, 1876. He is a son of 
John and Margaret (Dempsey) Monaghan, natives of County Monaghan, 
Ireland. The mother came to the United States at the age of eleven and 
the father at twenty-five and their marriage occurred at Audenried, 
Pennsylvania, where the father worked as a miner. In 1893 the family 
went to Iowa and in that state John Monaghan passed away in 1897. His 
wife survives him and makes her home in Iowa. To their union were born 
twelve children, of whom Father Monaghan is the tenth.  

	Rev. Patrick T. Monaghan acquired his early education in the 
public schools of Pennsylvania and at the age of seventeen entered St. 
Joseph's College at Dubuque, Iowa, where he spent three years, 
finishing his classical education at St. Viateur's College, Kankakee, 
Illinois, in 1900. In the same year he entered St. Mary's Seminary at 
Cincinnati, Ohio, and there completed courses in philosophy and 
theology. He was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood June 17, 
1905, and was placed in charge of the congregation at Gettysburg, South 
Dakota, where he remained for eight months. Following this he spent one 
year at the Catholic University in Washington, D. C., and then came to 
Parker, South Dakota, where he began work with Father O'Hara on the 
Sioux Falls apostolate or mission band. Upon the retirement of Father 
O'Hara one year later Father Monaghan was given charge of the 
apostolate and was also appointed pastor of St. Christina's church, a 
position which he has since filled. He is assisted by Rev. John Brady 
and Rev. John O'Mahoney, who are his associates on the mission band. 
Father Monaghan is indeed doing a great work in Parker among the 
Catholic people and he has their love in large measure. He is a man of 
scholarly attainments and most earnest and consecrated in his work.