Sacramento County
Biographies
FRANK McNAMEE
FRANK McNAMEE, deceased, for many years a resident of this State, was born in 1818, in County Cavan, Ireland. In 1847 he emigrated to America and lived in the Eastern States until about 1854, when he came to California. He was a farmer by occupation, the calling in which he had been reared. For the first two or three years here he mined at Prairie City and Alder Creek. The first thousand dollars he saved he put into the Adams Bank in Sacramento, and when that bank failed he lost all his money. He continued mining, however, until he accumulated a little money again, when he embarked in the mercantile trade, in Folsom, and continued in that business till the time of his death, June, 1878. He was a successful business man and earned some property outside of his regular business. His first wife was Mrs. Annie, nee Pennock. They had two children; and she died in 1869. He married Anne Hoey, a native of Ireland, who came to California in 1867, and since that time has been a resident of Folsom. Since the death of her husband, Mrs. McNamee has carried on the business which her husband left, and with that tact and enterprise which mark a successful business character.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 648. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.