Contra Costa-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Conway, John 1830 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

JOHN CONWAY.—The subject of this sketch was born in the south of Ireland,
December 25, 1830. When but an infant his parents immigrated to America, and
located on a farm in the State of New York, where Mr. Conway resided until his
coming to California. February 20, 1860, our subject left his New York home and
took passage on board a steamer bound for San Francisco via Panama, arriving in
the metropolis of this coast March 11th of the same year, and immediately
proceeded to the northern mines. He followed mining for one year, and then
proceeded to Sacramento, where he sojourned a short time, when he moved to
Contra Costa county, locating at Danville, and engaged in farming, in which he
continued six years. Our subject then purchased the general merchandise store of
Peter E. Peel, of San Ramon, and there carried on business for one year. In 1869
Mr. Conway bought his present store building in Danville, and moved his stock of
goods from San Ramon to his present store, where he is now engaged in the
general merchandise trade, and has the leading store of that town. Mr. Conway
was united in marriage in New York, March 7, 1858, to Miss Nora O'Brian, a
native of that State, by which union they have two children: John, Jr. and Mary
Teresa.

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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