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DANIEL
J. McGANNEY
Daniel
J. McGanney, railroad executive, was born in Smartsville, California, March 26, 1896. He is the son of
James F. and Anna P. (Quinkert) McGanney.
His preparatory education was
received at Sacred Heart College, San Francisco, California.
Mr. McGanney’s
entire business career has been with the Southern Pacific Company, starting in
the accounting department in 1911. He later served in the executive department,
transferring to freight traffic department in 1917.
From 1926 to 1928, Mr. McGanney was assistant general freight agent for Southern
Pacific Company, San Francisco, then assistant to freight agent for Southern
Pacific Company, San Francisco, then assistant to freight traffic manager from
1928 to 1929, assistant to vice president of System Freight Traffic from 1929
to July 1934, general freight agent and freight traffic manager of Central
District and general freight agent for Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company,
July 1934, to November 1942; assistant vice president of System Freight
Traffic, Southern Pacific Company, from December 1942 to July 1943; general
traffic manager of Southern Pacific Lines, Chicago, from August 1943 to January
1951; and assistant to the president of Southern Pacific Company, San
Francisco, in 1951. Since January 1952 he has been vice president of Southern
Pacific Company, president of Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company, president
of San Diego and Arizona East Railway Company, and president of Petaluma &
Santa Rosa Railroad Company, with offices in San Francisco.
He holds membership in the following
clubs: Pacific Union, Commonwealth, Commercial (San Francisco); and Chicago
Club, Chicago, Illinois.
Mr. McGanney
married Irene West on June 20, 1923, in San Francisco, California. They have
three sons and one daughter: Daniel J., Jr., Edward J., Thomas and Janet Irene McGanney.
Home: 509 Edinburgh Street, San Mateo, California.
Offices: 65 Market Street, San Francisco 5,
California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 473, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia M. Setty.
San Francisco County Biographies