Walter Monaghan

Name: Walter Monaghan
Alias: Walter Charles Monaghan
Birth Name: Charles Earl Monnin
Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthplace: Canton, Ohio, USA
Died: 1951-00-00 (Age:55)
Pro Boxer: Record

According to the Ohio, Births and Christening Index database on the Ancestry.com website, one Charles Earl Monnin was born in December 28, 1894 in Canton, Ohio. His parents were Alphonse Monnin and Margaret (Doughtery) Monnin.

According to the U.S. Census Records database on the Ancestry.com website, one Earl C. Monnin, a five-year-old native of Ohio, was living with his parents; a 7-year-old brother, William A. Monnin; and an 87-year-old grandmother, Josephine Monnin in Canton, Ohio who was born in France. Earl's paternal grandfather and grandmother were born in Switzerland and France respectively.

According to the West Virginia, Marriages Index (1785-1971) database on the Ancestry.com website, one Earl C. Monnin, 21, married Myrtle Lewis, 21, on September 8, 1916 in Wellsburg, West Virginia.

According to the World War I Draft Registration database on the Ancestry.com website, one Walter Charles Monaghan, a 22-year-old married resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was born on December 28, 1894 in Canton, Ohio. He was working as a "Patrolman" for the city of Pittsburgh at the time.

According to the U.S. Census Records database on the Ancestry.com website, one Earl Monnin, 25, was living with his 23-year-old wife, Myrtle; a 2-year-old son, William; and a month-old daughter, Ruth in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during 1920. At the time, Earl was working as an "agent" for a "Steam Rail Road."

According to the U.S. Census Records database, one Walter C. Monaghan, a 35-year-old native of Ohio, was living with his wife, Myrtle, one 13-year-old son, Earl W. Monaghan; five daughters, including 11-year-old Ruth and one-year-old Patty; and two boarders in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during 1930. At the time, Walter was a "Detective" who worked for the city of Pittsburgh.

According to the U.S. Census Records database, one Walter C. Monaghan, a 45-year-old native of Ohio, was living with his wife and six of his children, one son and five daughters, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during 1940. However, Patty, who would have been about 11 years old at the time, was not listed in the census, but Lois, a 5-year-old, was. Walter was still a "Detective" working for the city of Pittsburgh and earned $2,300. while working 52 weeks during 1939. The family owned their home, which was valued at $8,500.

According to his page attached to the "Monaghan-Neel Line" in the "Family Trees" database on the Ancestry.com website, one Walter Charles Monaghan was born on December 28, 1894 in Canton, Ohio and died after a bout with tuberculosis in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during 1951. He may have had as many as eight children. One daughter, Patricia L. Monaghan, passed away at the age of 5 or 6 during 1934 or 1935. Walter served as Sheriff of Allegheny County from 1946 to 1951 and was the "First sheriff to succeed himself."

According to his obituary in the September 20, 1951 edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Newspapers.com, Sheriff Walter Monaghan died due to a three-year illness at his home in Brookline, Pennsylvania on September 19, 1951. He had tuberculosis in addition to a heart condition. A highly popular individual in local political circles, he had been elected to two terms as Sheriff of Allegheny County while being the first sheriff to succeed himself. A new law permitting a sheriff to run in consecutive terms had been enacted during Monaghan's first term. While working for a railroad company,after his boxing career ended, Monaghan went on to become a patrolman and head of the company's police department. He became a detective in the Pittsburgh Police Department during 1928 and an Allegheny County detective during 1934. During 1936, Monaghan returned to the Pittsburgh Police Department as the inspector of city detectives with the rank of captain, a post that he held until being elected to his first term as sheriff during November 1945.

Monaghan was born in Canton, Ohio during 1894 and was brought to the Lawrenceville District of Pittsburgh as an infant. As a boxer in the amateur and professional ranks, he reportedly had some 80 bouts, including two with Harry Greb. After his marriage, he left boxing and went to work for a railroad. Monaghan was survived by his widow, two sons, five daughters and four grandchildren.