Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Hoey, James 1854 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

JAMES HOEY.—This well known business man of Martinez is a native of County
Louth, Ireland, and was born in March, 1854. At the age of sixteen years he
emigrated to the United States, and on landing in New York, was joined by his
brother Mathew, the two then coming together to California by rail, arriving in
San Francisco May 24, 1870. Our subject came direct to Martinez, Contra Costa
county, and went into his uncle's store, in the same place now occupied by
himself. Here he was employed five years, and on March 13, 1875, bought out the
business of his relative, and is now conducting the store on his own account,
wherein he first embarked on arrival in the county. It is not by mere luck,
however, that Mr. Hoey has attained this position. It has been by uprightness in
his dealings, honesty with his customers, integrity in his actions, and a strict
resolution in all undertakings. By these means has he advanced his interests and
gathered around the goods of this life that he hath. He married in Martinez,
November 9, 1880, Mary Tormey, a native of Ireland, and has one daughter—Mary Ann.

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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