Marin-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....O'Conner, Michael 1827 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  Michael O'Conner. This gentleman, whose portrait will be found in these pages,
is a native of county Limerick, Ireland, and was the youngest son of Michael and
Kate Gleeson O'Conner, and was born December 9, 1827. He remained at his
birth-place till 1848, and was educated, in the meantime, in the common schools
of the country, and was also apprenticed at the age of seventeen to the boot and
shoemaker's trade, serving at it till he left Ireland. In April, 1848, he sailed
for America, arriving at Quebec, Canada, but proceeded at once to Susquehanna
county, Pennsylvania, where he began work at his trade, and continued there till
April, 1854, when he sailed from New York for California, via the Isthmus, going
to Aspinwall on the steamer "George Law," and coming from Panama on the steamer
"Golden Gate." He arrived in San Francisco, May 3, 1854, and soon after found
work in a hotel, and remained in that city till August, 1857. He then went to
Portland, Oregon, and opened the "What Cheer" House, which he conducted till
1866. He remained in Portland till 1868, when he returned to San Francisco and
engaged in the liquor business, continuing in this business till April, 1873,
when he came to San Rafael, and took charge of the "Mahon" House. In 1876, he
leased the "Marin" Hotel, and after giving it a thorough overhauling, he changed
its name to the "Central," by which name it is now known as one of the best
caravansaries in Marin county. He was married to Miss Mary Phelan, November,
1853, born in New York in 1832, and died in Portland, Oregon, in 1861. Their
only living child Mrs. Mary Crowley, was born February 2, 1857, and married T.
J. Crowley, November 20, 1875.

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HISTORY OF MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA;
INCLUDING ITS
Geography, Geology, Topography and Climatography;
TOGETHER WITH
A Full and Particular Record of the Mexican Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the most Authentic Sources; Names of Original Spanish
and American Pioneers;

A Full Record of its Organization; A Complete Political History, including a
Tabular Statement of Office-holders since the Formation of the County;

Separate Histories of Bolinas, Nicasio, Novato, Point Reyes, San Antonio, San
Rafael, Saucelito, and Tomales Townships;

Incidents of Pioneer Life, and Biographical Sketches of its Early and Prominent
Settlers and Representative Men;
ALSO
An Historical Sketch of the State of California,
In which is embodied the Raising of the Bear Flag

ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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