WALTER DANIEL TOOMEY

Sacramento County

Biographies

WALTER DANIEL TOOMEY

WALTER DANIEL TOOMEY.—In various ways Walter Daniel Toomey has given his support to the development and progress of the city of Sacramento and for the past twenty-five years has been identified with the city water works. His birth occurred in the house in which he now resides, at 1226 H Street, Sacramento, Cal., June 1, 1874, a son of John F. and Mary (White) Toomey. John F. Toomey was reared in Albany, N. Y., and came to San Francisco, Cal., in 1860 via Panama. Four years later he located in Sacramento, where he operated a line of carriages for hire, for thirty years. He married, in San Francisco, Miss White, who was born in Amsterdam, N. Y., and came to California in 1864. Mr. Toomey built the family home at 1226 H Street where our subject still makes his home; he passed away in 1919, his wife having preceded him in 1913.

Walter Daniel Toomey attended the public schools of Sacramento, then he was with the Southern Pacific Railroad Company for two years, and twenty-five years ago he entered the employ of the city water works and has continued ever since. In 1917 he became assistant engineer of the city water works, a position he has since filled to the entire satisfaction of all. Mr. Toomey fraternally is affiliated with Sacramento parlor No. 3, N. S. G. W.

Transcribed 8-20-07 Marilyn R. Pankey.

Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Page 997. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.