Joseph Charles McLAUGHLIN

  General Notes:

Photo: This casual photo of " Joe " was taken on the porch of his house at 823 North 5th Street in Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa. The house was originally built, owned and occupied by Governor Henry Dodge, governor of the Wisconsin Territory and later a U. S. Senator from Wisconsin. Dodge died in Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, in 1867.

Photo taken in 1965 by DeeAnna Allum Granston


1897 BIRTH of Joseph Charles McLaughlin ("Joseph" and "Joe")

Within the Civil War pension file of Joseph's father, William McLaughlin, is a document notarized on January 3, 1912 verifying by Pastor Anthony H. Schoeningh of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Dodgeville, DesMoines County, Iowa that Joseph had been baptized on January 9, 1898

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Des Moines County, Franklin Township (June 28) ("Joseph," age 2, is with his parents)

1903 DEATH of grandfather, Charles McLaughlin

1905 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Des Moines County, Franklin Township, P. O. Sperry (no date) ("Joseph McLaughlin") (names only are in the 1905 Iowa State Census)

1910 CENSUS, Iowa, Des Moines County, Franklin Township (May 5) ("Joseph C.," age 11, is with his parents)

1911 DEATH of father, William McLaughlin

1918 DRAFT Registration, Iowa, Des Moines County, Mediapolis (September 12) ("Joseph Charles McLaughlin," age 20, "Farmer," born November 30, 1897, occupation "Farmer," employed by "Kline Brothers, Mediapolis, DesMoines County, Iowa") (A notation on registration: "Joseph 'Clarence' (sic) McLaughlin deputizing Henry Shepherd to apply for card. Sick")

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Des Moines County, Yellow Springs Township, Mediapolis (January) (no specific date is on the census page) ("Joseph," age 22, "Laborer," is "boarder" in the household of C. L. and P. E. Kline)

1925 CENSUS, Iowa State Census ... Where?

1930 CENSUS, Iowa, Des Moines County, Burlington Township, Burlington (April 3) ("Joseph C.," age 32, "Trucker, R. R. freight," is in the household of his widowed mother, Mary A. "McLoughlin," age 72)

1941 DEATH of mother, Mary Ann (Counihan) McLaughlin

1973 DEATH, Joseph Charles McLaughlin, at 75 years 11 months 23 days


Joe did not marry



DESCRIPTION (Joe): "Short, medium build, blue eyes, light hair" (World War I Draft Registration)



PHOTOGRAPHS:

House at 823 North 5th Street, Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, 1965, occupied by Joe and his niece Marcella Mary Wasson. The house was originally built, owned and occupied by the former Governor Henry Dodge.

Joe on front porch of above-described house, 1965 (Photo taken by DeeAnna Allum Granston)



The following is from The Political Graveyard web site:

Henry Dodge (1782-1867) - Born near Vincennes, Knox County , Ind., October 12, 1782 . Half-brother of Lewis Fields Linn; father of Augustus Caesar Dodge; father-in-law of James Clarke. Democrat. General in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; delegate to Missouri state constitutional convention from Ste. Genevieve County, 1820; member Michigan territorial council 7th District, 1832-33; Governor of Wisconsin Territory, 1836-41, 1845-48; Delegate to U.S. Congress from Wisconsin Territory, 1841-45; U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, 1848-57. Died in Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, June 19, 1867. Interment at Aspen Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Iowa. Dodge counties in Minn. and Wis., and Henry County, Iowa, are named for him.