Sacramento County
Biographies
ANDREW T. McGUIRE
ANDREW T. McGUIRE.--Sacramento is fortunate, as both the state capital and the center of varied interests requiring improved transportation facilities, in its several experienced and thoroughly dependable teaming contractors, well-known among whom is Andrew T. McGuire, who came here from Kansas, where he was born on February 6, 1873. His father, Patrick McGuire, married Miss Mary Burke and came to Sacramento, about 1875, when he was for a short time with the Southern Pacific Railroad. He soon took up teaming, however, and continued at it until his death, in 1902. Mrs. McGuire has also passed away, having breathed her last in February, 1908.
Andrew T. McGuire went to the Christian Brothers’ school and college, and then for some years he drove a team for his father; and at the latter’s death, he succeeded to the control of the business. He also engaged in truck and team work, and undertook excavating and the filling-in of low lots, and in all this he has been very successful. His familiarity with local conditions, his ability to afford the best service at the lowest possible rate, and his willingness to do everything possible for the convenience or satisfaction of the patron - these things have helped him to make or get customers, and they have also helped to hold them in a period of lively competition. He belongs to the Builders’ Exchange.
When Mr. McGuire married, in October, 1907, he chose for his wife Miss Elizabeth Newman, of Sacramento, and they have had a son and three daughters: Andrew T. Jr., Irene, and Elizabeth and Patricia, twins. Mr. McGuire likes outdoor sports generally, and is especially interested in baseball.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 959.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.