Sacramento County
Biographies
CAPT.
BERNARD JOSEPH DOLAN
CAPT. BERNARD JOSEPH DOLAN.--As one of the men who have followed the fortunes of river transportation we find none better known or more efficient than Captain Bernard Joseph Dolan, a native son born in Colusa County, July 24, 1889. His parents were Peter F. And Nellie (Sullivan) Dolan, the former an early settler of the seventies in that county, and it was there the wife and mother died. Later the father moved to Butte City and there he passed his last days.
Our subject attended the local public schools and when he was eighteen years of age he became an apprentice pilot on the river steamer Red Bluff, Captain T. A. Ryan, master. After three years in this service he was made a pilot, operating between Sacramento and Red Bluff. After a year as a pilot, he successfully passed the examination and received his papers as master; since then he has been on the run to San Francisco from the capital city. In all the years he has seen service he has been in the employ of the Sacramento Transportation Company, now having few older in point of service ahead of him.
On November 16, 1913, at Sacramento, Captain Dolan was united in marriage with Miss Rita McIsaac, born in this county. He is a member of the Sacramento Lodge of Elks and of Sacramento Parlor No. 3, N. S. G. W., and of the Master’s Association, Harbor No. 40, in San Francisco. Captain Dolan has an ever widening circle of friends and he is ready to assist all projects for the good of his home city.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 889.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.