Sacramento County
Biographies
JOHN F.
DONAHUE
JOHN F. DONAHUE.--Among the younger generation of successful orchardists may be found John F. Donahue, who is the executor of the estate of the late Daniel Donahue, which consists of 300 acres of fine land on the Greenback Highway about sixteen miles from the capital city. He is a native son of California, his birth having occurred on his father’s ranch on February 7, 1892, the second son of Daniel and Annie F. (Leahy) Donahue, the former born near the Sylvan school in Sacramento County on June 5, 1859, and the latter born in Boston, Mass., in 1860. Daniel Donahue was a man of sterling worth and his active career was spent in the development of a fine orchard. The parents of our subject are both deceased and are survived by three sons and six daughters.
John F. Donahue began his education in the Sylvan public school and in 1912 was graduated from the Sacramento high school; he has always been associated with his father in ranching, but since the death of his parents has handled the estate left by them, as executor. The ranch property embraces 300 acres, sixty acres of which is in orchard of almonds, French prunes and wine grapes; the ranch is equipped with a modern drying yard for fruit. Fraternally, Mr. Donahue is a member of the B. P. O. Elks and Knights of Columbus of Sacramento.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches,
Pages
990. Historic Record Company, Los
Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.