Santa
Clara County
Biographies
PATRICK
GREEN
The life which this narrative
sketches began in Queen’s county, Ireland, and ended in San Jose, Santa Clara
county, just twenty-one years ago last March. He came to America when a mere
lad, locating in New York City, where an uncle kept a livery stable, and with
whom he found employment. He grew to manhood in that location and occupation,
learning to love and manage horses. In various states of the south and west he
handled race horses and met with success in his work. Deciding to locate in
California he came west in 1860 and settling in San Francisco established a
livery business, which soon grew to remunerative proportions. Not quite
satisfied as to location he afterward removed to San Jose, where he built the
livery stable which is now owned and conducted by Hoover Brothers, located on
Santa Clara avenue. He met with a gratifying success
in his work and won many friends and patrons, who came to appreciate him for
the qualities which distinguished his work among them. He handled many fine
race horses, for he was both a lover and an excellent judge of equine flesh,
and was always very much interested in that class of
animals. While engaged in his work he was violently kicked by a horse, an
accident which caused him to lose his sight ten years before his death. Unable
longer to conduct his business he disposed of his interests in the livery
stable and purchasing a block of land on St. Augustine street he erected the home
which his widow now occupies. He was fifty-eight years old at the time of his
death.
In San Francisco Mr. Green married Margarite Maguire, who was born in County Roscommon,
Ireland. She came to America with her parents, who located in Boston, Mass.,
and there grew to a cultured womanhood. She came to California with friends and
here met and married her husband. Of their union were born two children,
namely: James A., a graduate of Santa Clara College, who became a bookbinder,
and Mariah. Both are now deceased, the former at the age of
twenty-seven years, and the latter at eight years. Although deprived of
her own children, Mrs. Green has not spent her life alone, extending a kindly
hand to all in need of help, and indeed rearing several to a useful life among
the surroundings of her comfortable home. She is much beloved by all who know
her.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: History
of the State of California & Biographical Record of Coast Counties,
California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A. M., Pages 456-457. The Chapman
Publishing Co., Chicago, 1904.
© 2015 Cecelia M. Setty.