Sacramento County
Biographies
LAWRENCE B. KIERNAN.
LAWRENCE B. KIERNAN--Among the conscientious and capable employees of the city of Sacramento Lawrence B. Kiernan has for the past nine years served in the capacity of superintendent of South Side Park. He is well known and highly esteemed by all who know him and the patrons of the South Side Park appreciate his efforts in the improvements of this pleasure resort. A native son of California, he was born in Sacramento January 21, 1883, a son of John and Mollie (Shields) Kiernan. John Kiernan has spent the greater part of his lifetime in newspaper work and is still active along that line. Both parents are still living.
Lawrence B. Kiernan was educated in the public schools of Sacramento and at the age of sixteen learned the boiler-maker's trade, which he followed for fourteen years; following this he was employed as a detective by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and one year was spent in the employ of the Ebner Hotel in Sacramento. On October 14, 1914, he was appointed by the late E.J. Carragher, late commissioner of education, as superintendent of the South Side Park, a position he filled to the entire satisfaction of the city, and through his efforts this park has become one of the most beautiful in the city of Sacramento.
Mr. Kiernan's marriage, May 31, 1918, united him with Miss Florence Laverone, a native of Santa Rosa, Cal. He gives his political allegiance to the Republican party and fraternally is connected with the B. P. O. Elks, the Eagles and the Sacramento Parlor, No. 3, N. S. G. W.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 600. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.