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Marriage: Children:
  1. Joseph M. McMenamin: Birth: 31 OCT 1909. Death: 24 JUN 1995

  2. James H. McMenamin: Birth: FEB 1911. Death: FEB 1972

  3. Person Not Viewable

  4. Edward L "Bud" McMenamin: Birth: 21 MAY 1914. Death: JUN 1964

  5. Richard E. McMenamin: Birth: 1917. Death: 2001

  6. John Francis McMenamin: Birth: 1921. Death: 1979


Notes
a. Note:   Graduated in June, 1902, from the Indiana College of Law. Who's Who Biography - Added by "hirshey" on 13 Dec 2008 (Mary McMenamin Hirsch)
  WHO'S WHO FOR OREGON
 MCMENAMIN, JAMES H.
 Lawyer
 b. East Greenbush, New York, April 27, 1877; son of P. J. and Mary McM.;
 Education, Valparaiso Univ., Ind., LL. B., 1902.
 Married Nelle D. Diehl, Jan. 29, 1914.
 One son, James H., Jr.
 Law practice, Chicago, one year; law practice, Tacoma, Wash., 1903-13; since 1912, law practice, Portland, OR.
 Secretary, Tacoma Bar Assn., eight years.
 Member, Co. A. Multnomah Guard, during World War.
 Owner and operator of farms in Clark County, Wash.; promoter of dairying industry, extensive breeder of pure-bred live-stock.
 Member, State Holstein Friesian Assc. of Wash.;
 Press and City Clubs of Portland.
 Elk Woodman.
 Republican.
 Catholic.
  "The Western Migration" - A Brief History From The Collected Writings of Patrick Joseph McMenamin's Descendants
  Patrick Joseph McMenamin, born May 25, 1854 in the area of Castlederg, County Tyrone, Ireland, came to America about 1873. He joined his brothers, Michael and Owen who had preceded him by a few years in the East Greenbush, NY area. Even though P.J. could not read or write, his hard work and thriftiness enabled him to send for his bride-to-be, Mary Anne McMenamin to join him within a few years. Although sharing the same surname she was not closely related. She could read and write. It is said she had church leaders in her family background. Surely her literacy was very influential in life directions her children would take. Patrick and Mary were wed June 8, 1876, St. John's Church, Greenbush, NY.
  By the time their third son was born in the summer of 1881 they had moved to DeKalb County, Illinois. In 1901, the last of Mary's 12 children was born on their Afton farm. Nine would survive to adulthood.
  James Hugh, the oldest, would receive a law degree from Valparaiso University in 1902. That same year James married . . . sadly, the marriage ended abruptly. By 1903 James would take the most familiar Chicago & Northwestern Railroad that stopped in DeKalb to its end of the line, Tacoma, WA. There he set up his law practice until 1912 when he moved on to Portland, OR.
  The next son to feel the call of the West was Michael Joseph. His first 18 years were spent on the farm before going off to Valparaiso University. But it was not for him. Instead, he left Illinois to join his brother James in Washington State after working as a cowboy in New Mexico for a few years. Exact dates aren't to be found but 1905 or 1906 is roughly when Michael came to Tacoma and an adventure of a lifetime...perhaps the first cattle drive to Alaska. Maybe cattle cruise-drive might be a bit more descriptive. 240 head of cattle were loaded aboard the Dashing Waves which sailed north along the Canadian coast up to Nome, Alaska...a 5 week voyage...watering, feeding and cleaning the livestock muck twice a day. Once in Nome, Mike was given a compass and the instructions: "Get yourself to Council first, then head directly north to Candle from there." His thoughts 50 years later: "Well, there I was - a couple hundred cattle on my hands; two cowboys as green as myself; three packhorses and a compass. One hundred and eighty miles to go across country I didn't know anything about. I suddenly found myself wishing I'd never left New Mexico." Needless to say, it was a successful venture. By 1909, Mike married and over time became a commercial grain salesman in Tacoma. A fuller accounting of his adventure is to be found in: "First Alaskan Cattle Drive".
  Added note: Michael's New Mexico cowboy foray was likely influenced by his cousin John,
 Owen McMenamin's son. John had left Chicago for New Mexico about 1895. He appears on the 1900 Cimarron, NM, census as day laborer. Later census’ find him as a stock rancher in Arizona.
  Francis (Frank) was the third son of Patrick to leave DeKalb for the west. Having completed only the sixth grade, Frank, in 1910, age 21, joined his attorney brother Jim in Tacoma. The big brother advised him to go to the state university at Seattle. His lack of a preparatory education left him quickly rejected by the university however they recommended he try St Martin's College at Lacey, WA. St Martin's also offered high school courses. Frank was able to complete the high school courses and begin some college subjects within 3 years. He received top honors on the debating team, a gold medal for composition and learned Latin, Greek, and German. Besides being active on the football team he also took part in the theater group. Frank's 1914 marriage ended his St Martin's days but he went to law school at night. Once that schooling was completed and the bar passed he joined his joined his brother Jim's Portland law practice. Frank's paths crossed with a Heppner, OR, business man who lured him to the thriving eastern Oregon farming community. There, besides practicing law, he also became involved in sheep ranching. About 1920, he went into a ranch partnership with Pat Ward. The ranch consisted of some 7,250 acres, lambing sheds and forest grassing permits. It was a going concern for a few years but a drop in prices brought an end to Frank's sheep ranching. In 1923 he returned to Portland.
  The last child of Patrick to relocate to the northwest was Nan (Anne Cecilia). She had already received her nurse's training in Illinois before 1910 as she gave her occupation as "nurse" for that DeKalb census. It is likely that she made several visits to see her brothers and their families but in 1919 while visiting Frank and his growing family (a third daughter was born in 1918) she met Pat Ward. A marriage soon ensued.
  John Henry, the second son, toyed with the idea of moving west. In 1909 while visiting Jim in Tacoma he wrote his to-be wife that he was being influenced to start in business in Tacoma “so don't be surprised if Mrs. John McMenamin would be out here some time in the near future." A month later, back in DeKalb writing about his farm home to Martha, he says that she was "the magnet that is ever drawing me”. And a month later "Sold our hogs today; it is great to be a farmer at the price they are paying for pork.”
  In 1910, P.J. gave his running of the farm to John, and retired.


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