Imperial County CA Archives Biographies.....O'Neill, John Edward 1893 - 
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Author: F. C. Farr (editor, 1918)

JOHN EDWARD O'NEILL.—Prominent among the business men of Calipatria is John
Edward O'Neill, general manager of the firm of Coats and Williamson, Inc., who
are farming under contract with Balfour Guthrie Company, the lessees of ten
thousand acres of agricultural land in the vicinity of Calipatria. Mr. O'Neill
is a type of the modern, thorough-going and up-to-date successful men of
affairs. He is a man of splendid executive ability, far-sightedness and
practicability. He is able not only to do ample justice to the business of the
firm of Coats and Williamson, Inc., but finds time to take an active part in a
320-acre ranch with Thomas P. Daly near Calipatria, besides being a shareholder
with his brother-in-law, M. O. Emert of Calexico, in two theaters in that city.
Mr. O'Neill was born in Ottawa, Canada, October 7, 1893, a son of Andrew and
Katherine O'Neill who now reside in Calipatria. He acquired his education in the
public schools and Ottawa College. At the age of sixteen Mr. O'Neill became
stenographer for the Canadian Oak Leather Company. At the age of eighteen he
traveled through Canada for his firm and the following year he was promoted and
took the management of the Ottawa branch, which position he held until he came
to California and to the Imperial Valley. His first venture in the Valley was to
become identified with the Pacific Cotton Company of Calexico, as stenographer.
In six months he resigned his position and became associated with his present
firm as bookkeeper. Owing to his executive ability he forged ahead until he
became manager of his company. Mr. O'Neill's ancestors were of Irish descent and
date back a century ago in Canada. He was united in marriage in Los Angeles,
California, January 10, 1918, to Miss Hughina Burnet, a native of Van Kleek
Hill, Ontario. Mr. O'Neill is part owner of the McCollough Building in
Calipatria. His rise has been remarkable. Such is the case, however, and it is
due to the energies of men of perseverance and progressive ideas that Calipatria
and the surrounding territory is at present in such a prosperous condition.

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THE HISTORY
OF
IMPERIAL COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
EDITED BY
F. C. FARR

IN ONE VOLUME
ILLUSTRATED
Published by ELMS AND FRANKS
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 1918


Printed by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco


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