Contra Costa-Sierra-Alameda County CA Archives Biographies.....Clancy, Daniel 1822 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

DANIEL CLANCY.—The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this work,
was born in County Limerick, Ireland, in the year 1822, where he was educated
and resided until 1837. He then immigrated to the United States, first settling
in Boston, where he was employed as clerk in the Custom House for nearly three
years. He next moved to the State of New York, and being a mechanic worked at
the trades of carpenter and joiner and ship-builder, also farming for a term. In
1859, he came to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, and arrived in San
Francisco in December, after having suffered shipwreck in the North Star. The
ship struck on a coral reef, where she remained ten days, but all on board were
landed on a desert island, where there was nothing but rocks and sage brush. In
the meantime four hundred and fifty tons of coal were jetsoned. Captain Wright,
of San Francisco, with fourteen sailors risked a voyage to Fortune Island, a
distance of two hundred and fifty miles, to procure wreckers. On the island,
which belongs to the British, are Africans employed in the manufacture of salt.
On arrival at San Francisco, he started for the mines in Sierra county,
California, and worked in that lucky spot called the City of Six. He then
returned, and after locating in Alameda county, Mr. Clancy moved in 1860 to
Contra Costa county, and purchased a farm where he now resides. It comprises two
hundred and eighty-five acres. Of this gentleman, we can safely say that here we
have another of those living examples of what steadiness may do. Not only is Mr.
Clancy a credit to himself and family, but by his good example he is sure to
work good in the community in which he resides. He married, in 1851, Mary A.
Falvey, a native of New Brunswick. The names of his children living are: John
H., May A., Hannah F., Thomas A., Ellen E., William A., Emma L., Norbot D., Alma
E., and James M.

Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.

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