Napa County CA Archives Biographies.....Mooney, C. D. 1861 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

C. D. MOONEY is the proprietor of one of the leading business houses of St.
Helena, and takes rank among her most forward young business men. He carries on
a general grocery and provision business, buying produce as well, his country
trade being excelled probably by none in the town. The location of the store is
on Hunt avenue, and during the five years it has been carried on by Mr. Mooney
the business has been made by his energy, enterprise and popularity a leading one.

  Mr. Mooney was born August 26, 1861, in Jefferson County, New York, where his
father, Thomas Mooney, was a farmer. The latter now conducts the blacksmith shop
a mile below St Helena. Back East he was engaged in buying and selling produce
and was in general business, but by signing with another met with serious
reverses. As a result he came to California, where his family followed him in
1874. In March, 1880, in company with his son, C. D., he put up the blacksmith
shop, and was assisted by the latter until 1883, when on account of a severe
kick from a horse C. D. retired and left the business entirely to his father.
Mr. Thomas Mooney is a native of Ireland, but when nine years old came with his
parents to America, settling near Watertown, New York, where members of the
family still reside. He married a Miss Reid, whose parents came originally from
Glasgow, Scotland, and settled near Kingston, Canada. They had a family of eight
children, five boys and three girls.

  Mr. C. D. Mooney, the eldest son, was brought up as a blacksmith, serving
three years at the trade. When he came to California with the rest of the
family, in 1874, he went to work first for Mr. Inman, in his nursery. Then in
partnership with his father he put up the blacksmith shop below St. Helena, as
already mentioned. While shoeing a horse he met with a serious accident from a
kick, and was forced to give up the business. In February, 1883, he went to
ranching on a place above town, carrying it on until October, 1884, when he sold
out and in November following began the business which he is still carrying on.
He was married in June, 1884, to Miss McArron, a native of San Francisco. They
have three children, a daughter and two sons. Such in brief is an account of the
life of Mr. C. D. Mooney, an active, successful and thoroughly self-reliant one.
When he landed in St. Helena he had only 50 cents, but he has made his way since
without calling upon any one for assistance, and has made it well. He has two
brothers and one sister in the county, their names being F. T. and W. D.,
brothers, and Mrs. Jennie Tyrrell, whose husband is conducting the Napa carriage
factory.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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