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MAURICE JOSEPH BYRNES
Coming from a pioneer family, and
having for many years been very actively identified with business and official
matters at Tracy, Maurice J. Byrnes is well and favorably known in southwestern
San Joaquin County. At present he is the
proprietor of the Byrnes Rooming House, located at the corner of Front and
Sixth streets in the city of Tracy, and at the same time he owns and operates
his 640-acre cattle ranch in Stanislaus County. He is a son of Maurice Byrnes, who was one of
Tracy’s first settlers and served as constable for thirty-five years. The father was born in Ireland, as was also
the mother, whose maiden name was Margaret Walsh. Both were young people when they came to America. They were married in the state of Connecticut
and settled at New Haven, where the father became a baker. Arriving in California, they took up a
homestead near Tracy. They possessed the
qualities which made friends among the early settlers, and were held in highest
esteem by all who knew them. Both are
now deceased. Maurice Joseph is the only
member of their family now left.
Maurice Joseph Byrnes was born upon
the Byrnes ranch, four miles south of Tracy on March 29, 1873. He attended the public schools, and later
became a deputy constable, under his father, and was also associated with him
in a business way at Tracy in early life.
He soon branched out into the livery business, and for many years did a
thriving business in that line in Tracy.
Mr. Byrnes’ marriage occurred in
Tracy, where he was united to Mrs. Ordway (nee Cross), born in the state of
Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Byrnes are justly
popular. Their guests receive kind and
courteous attention, while their generous and public-spirited disposition has
won for them a host of friends among their fellow-citizens in their home city.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1640. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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