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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

JAMES JOHN BOYLE

   Among the popular and successful business men of Livingston is James John
Boyle, the genial and accommodating head of the dry goods department of the
White-Crowell Company, Inc.; he also serves as vice-president and director of
this institution of which he is a stockholder. His birth occurred in the
Province of Quebec, Canada, on February 2, 1863. His father, James Boyle, was
also born in Canada and was part owner of a whaling vessel and followed whaling
for several years. He married Annie Ascah. The paternal grandfather, also named
James Boyle, served with General Wolfe at the siege of the Plains of Abraham
during the Revolutionary War.

  James John Boyle attended public school in his native province until he was
sixteen years old. He then became a clerk in a general merchandise store at
Gaspe, Canada, where he worked for three years. At the age of nineteen he
removed to Philadelphia and clerked in the store of John Wanamaker. In 1890 he
came West and settled in Washington where he remained until 1898, when he joined
the gold rush to Alaska, and placer-mined near Atlin, B. C, with only fair
success during his two-years stay. In 1900 he returned to Washington and resumed
his former position as clerk in a large drygoods house in Tacoma, but his desire
to locate in California caused him to leave after one year. He first located in
Oroville, then came to San Francisco where he clerked for Hale Brothers. In 1902
he removed to Los Banos and was employed in the drygoods department of the store
of Miller and Lux. In July, 1911 he located in Livingston and became an employe
of White-Crowell Company, Inc.; soon thereafter he was made head of the drygoods
department, which position he has since occupied. Mr. Boyle is an active member
of the Merchants Association and the Boosters' Club of Livingston; fraternally,
he is a Past Grand of Mountain Brow Lodge No. 82, I. O. O. F., of Los Banos.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF
MERCED COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
WITH A
Biographical Review
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
JOHN OUTCALT

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925


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