JAMES KEANE

Sacramento County

Biographies

JAMES KEANE

JAMES KEANE.--Sacramento County may well be proud of the contribution to business activity furnished by James Keane, whose thoroughness, industry and trained business judgment have been a factor in the permanent growth and advancement of the community. For the past eleven years he has devoted his energies to the insurance business and at the present time is serving as district manager of the Western States Life Insurance Company; and under his able management the business has steadily increased in proportions until he has charge of thirty-three men who work throughout Sacramento district. He is a native son of California, born near Lotus, Eldorado County, May 26, 1877, a son of James and Mary (Grogan) Keane. The father of our subject was born in Ireland, came to Pennsylvania, Pa., in 1851, engaged as fireman on a Pennsylvania railway and came to California around the Horn in 1855. He first engaged in mining; then he turned his attention to agriculture and in the early days of irrigation gave helpful assistance to all irrigation projects. He was active in politics, and lived and died in Eldorado County; he passed away in 1903, his wife surviving him until 1906.

James Keane, our subject, received a good education in the public schools and finished with a course in a business college; he then began farming on the home place, where he remained until 1908, when he engaged in the fruit business which he followed for four years. Removing to Sacramento in 1912 he entered the life insurance business, working as solicitor throughout the county until he was made district manager in 1918, having full charge of the Sacramento district with offices in the Capital National Bank building.

The marriage of Mr. Keane united him with Miss Aimee E. Collins, born at Davis, Cal., and they are the parents of one daughter, Carol Bernice. Mr. Keane is a Democrat in politics, and fraternally belongs to Placerville Parlor No. 9, N. S. G. W., of which he is a past president.

Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.

Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Page 858. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.