Contra Costa-San Joaquin-Napa County CA Archives Biographies.....Tormey, Patrick 1840 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

PATRICK TORMEY.—The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this work,
is the son of Patrick and Mary (Rooney) Tormey, and was born in Westmeath,
Ireland, in March, 1840. There he resided until September, 1858, in which year,
after undergoing a three years' academic training, he, with three sisters and a
brother, sailed from Galway to the United States. Arriving in New York September
29th, he remained in that city a short time, and on the 7th of October, in
company with Hon. D. N. Sherburne, of Sycamore valley, sailed for the Isthmus of
Panama in the steamer St. Louis, the journey to San Francisco being continued in
the Louisa, where he landed on the last day of October, 1858. He now joined his
brother, the well-known and much lamented late John Tormey, at Suscol, Napa
county, and there engaged in farming for a year. In the Fall of 1859, our
subject proceeded to Stockton, San Joaquin county, and for six months was
employed in the California Flour Mills; after which he came to Contra Costa
county, and was engaged for eighteen months in herding cattle for his brother on
the Pinole Rancho. In June, 1861, he drove some stock to Nevada, returning at
the end of four months, and leasing a portion of the place which he has since
purchased. Here he engaged in agricultural pursuits for two years, at the end of
which he transferred his operations to the "Adobe" ranch, near Petaluma, Sonoma
county, where he resided four years. On the expiration of that term he returned
to Contra Costa county, and with his brother, the aforesaid John Tormey,
purchased his present large tract of land of seven thousand acres, it being a
part of the Pinole Grant, and the portions of Mesdames Estudillo, Merle,
Berryessa, Richardson, and a third share of Mrs. Castro. The property has a
frontage on San Pablo Bay of three miles; on it is situated Tormey Station, on
the line of the San Pablo and Tulare Railroad, now the property of the Central
Pacific Railroad Company; it is on the direct southern route to the Eastern
States, and since coming into the hands of Mr. Tormey, the value of the land has
been much enhanced by many improvements. In the Fall of 1877, Mr. Tormey was
elected to a place on the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa county, made
vacant by the demise of his brother, who had held the position for the previous
nine years, and has since been called upon to fill these functions, being one of
the most active members of the Board. To know Mr. Tormey is to appreciate his
manly worth. The excellence of his life, his unswerving rectitude of purpose,
and undeviating honesty, all go to make up a man to be trusted and honored—as he
is, indeed, by the citizens of the county in which he has been a resident for
more than two decades of years. He married, in May, 1875, Mary Mathews, a native
of Boston, and has three children—John P., Leo F. and Mary.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

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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