Santa
Clara County
Biographies
MRS. MARY FARNEY
In a beautiful residence two miles north of San Jose, Cal., on the Milpitas road to Santa Clara county, resides Mrs. Farney, who has shown rare executive ability and good judgment in the successful management of her fine fifty-acre fruit farm, which is one of the most productive in the locality. A native of county Cork, Ireland, born January 6, 1843, Mrs. Farney is a daughter of James and Mary (Conner) Burton, both natives of the same county in Ireland, where the mother also died. The father, a farmer and a contractor and builder in his naive land, came to the United States in 1870, and died a few years later in San Jose, Cal., March 12, 1874, when in his seventy-ninth year.
Educated in the common schools of Ireland, Mrs. Farney accompanied her brother John to the United States in 1859 and a few years afterward, about 1865, they located in San Jose, Cal., and it was in this city, July 9, 1873, that her marriage with Mark Farney occurred. He was born in 1824 in County Fermanagh, Ireland, and when grown to manhood engaged in teaching, and in 1847 immigrated to the United States, locating in Boston. In 1853 he came to California, and for a few years resided in Napa, but in 1856 purchased a fifty-acre farm two miles north of San Jose, on the Milpitas road, and started a nursery. Here it was that he carried on a successful business in that line until his death, May 7, 1885. He was a devout member of the Catholic Church and in his political convictions was a Democrat. Three daughters blessed the home of himself and his wife and he is survived by his widow and these children, whose names are Mary C., Julia E. and Alice R. After the death of her husband Mrs. Farney undertook the management of the little farm and that she has succeeded is readily conceded by all.
Transcribed
9-26-15 Marilyn
R. Pankey.
ญญญญSource:
History of the State of California &
Biographical Record of Coast Counties, California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A.
M., Page 796. The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago, 1904.
ฉ 2015 Marilyn R.
Pankey.