Solano-Butte County CA Archives Biographies.....McGettigan, Edward 1840 - 
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McGETTIGAN, EDWARD, was born in County Donegal, Ireland, March 20, 1840, and
emigrated to America in 1856, arriving in New York in January, 1857. He at once
removed to Philadelphia, where he sojourned one year, at the end of which he
sailed, via Panama, for San Francisco, arriving there in June, 1858. He lost no
time, but went to the mountains and engaged in mining in Butte county. In May,
1859, he located in Vallejo. In 1862 he established the Vallejo Brewery in
company with A. Murray and James McGarvey, but sold out his interest in 1865.
Shortly after this date he opened the Empire Soda Works. In 1874, the Vallejo
Brewery was in the market; he therefore purchased it, changing its name to the
Pioneer Brewery, after having first rebuilt and refurnished it.

  To Mr. McGettigan, aided by General Frisbie, is due the building of 
the street-car railroad in Vallejo, whereby real estate was improved to 
the extent of many thousands of dollars, enhancing thereby the 
condition of many of the poorer class of citizens. He was twice elected 
to fill the responsible position of City Trustee; how well he 
discharged the duties of that office, the records of the corporation 
can truly attest; and as one of the Directors of the Saving and 
Commercial Bank, his true honesty is best told by the valuable services 
rendered in placing that institution upon a sound and solid basis, 
rendering that aid, which the general crash demanded, by surrendering 
the earnings of twenty years' toil to meet his obligations and 
perpetuate his honor and integrity as a man and a worthy citizen. Mr. 
McGettigan is also largely interested with General J. B. Frisbie in the 
following mines in New Mexico: Consolidated Hidalgo, and Esperanza 
Consolidated, ventures which bear every promise of being both valuable 
and fruitful. He married in 1864, Miss Mary A. O'Grady.



Additional Comments:

This biography came from an "The History of Solano County", author and publisher
unknown. Two pages from this book were accidentally bound into "History of
Johnson County Kansas" by Ed Blair, 1915.



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