JOHN J BRESLAN

Sacramento County

Biographies

JOHN J. BRESLAN

JOHN J. BRESLAN.--An employment agency which, on account of its wide and exceptional connections, its enviable status among those wishing the services of others, and its constantly increasing list of superior applicants, has rendered a valuable service in making Sacramento City and Sacramento County the most desirable places of residence and activity, is that of Breslan and Company, whose animating spirit is the popular John Breslan, a native of Oakland, Cal. He was born on November 13, 1874, the son of Peter and Catherine (Ford) Breslan, the former a member of the 5th Massachusetts Battery in the Civil War, with three years’ service in the field, and like his good wife, a native of Ireland. They came out to California in the sixties, and were married here. They made many friends in their sojourning among, and cooperating with, the builders of the new state, and now that they are deceased, men speak well of them.

When John J. Breslan was seven years of age his parents moved to San Francisco, and there he attended the public schools. At the age of fourteen he began work in stores in San Francisco and later for Risden Iron Works, meantime attending night school. About 1892 he came to Sacramento and this has been the scene of his operations ever since. In 1900 he started an employment agency under the name Breslan & Company, and has continued the business ever since. He is now the oldest established employment agent in Sacramento and has been successful from the day when he first opened an office. Those who come to him for confidential assistance know that he will help them, if he can.

Mr. Breslan was married in Stockton to Miss Louise Lawless of Maine. Mr. and Mrs. Breslan are both Republicans. They are enthusiasts for baseball, and other outdoor sports.

Transcribed by Vicky Walker, 8/23/07.

Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Page 971. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.