| Record Last Updated On:
3/18/2016 |
| Name: JOHN SR (COLONEL) DONOVAN |
| Death Date: AUG/07/1897 |
Interment Date:
AUG/09/1897 |
Birth Date: DEC/26/1828 |
| Age at Death: 69y5m12d |
Cause of Death:
ANGINA PECTORIS |
| Location at Death:
SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI |
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| Sex: M |
Nativity: AMERICAN |
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| Occupation:lawyer and real estate broker |
| Military Branch:3rd rgt MD inf Potomac Home brg |
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| Child of: John Donovan & Sarah Ellen Pattison |
| Spouse of: Evelina Robinson |
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| Father of: John Donovan Jr |
| Other Known Relatives: Emma Patee Donovan (daughter-in-law), Emma R. Donovan McCaskey (granddaughter) & her husband Douglas McCaskey, great-grandchildren John Douglas McCaskey & William Spencer McCaskey |
| Brief Biography: Born in Feb 1828, Cambridge, Dorchester County, MD died August 7, 1805, at his home in St. Joseph, MO. His parents were John and Sarah Ellen (Pattison) Donovan, member of old and prominent Maryland families.
The ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War.
John received his education at Cambridge in Easton, Maryland, finishing the academic course.
He had several different business endeavors and settled in St. Joseph, Missouri in June 1868. He engaged in real estate with A.M. Saxton which after Mr. Saxton's death became Donovan & Son. During the War of the Rebellion he was captain of a troop of Maryland Cavalry. He also served in the State Guards of Maryland, but did not participate in active field hostilies.
He was a life-long Democrat, Episcopalian and vestryman in Christ Church, St. Joseph. He was a Mason of high standing. He was married December 1, 1850, to Miss Evelina M. Robinson, of Talbot County, Maryland. Mrs. Donovan's father was an agriculturist and old resident of Maryland, of English descent. Her death occurred March 3i, 1895, only a few months before the demise of John Donovan. |
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