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EDWARD M. COONEY
Already well established in his
chosen profession, at an age when many young men have hardly made a choice of
their life work, Edward M. Cooney has a brilliant future before him in the
field of architectural designing. He was
born at Dos Palos, Merced County, on June 27, 1895, and was reared and educated
at Stockton, attending St. Mary’s College and the Stockton high school. Gifted with a natural talent as an artist, he
began when quite a youth to draw cartoons for different newspapers, but feeling
that the profession of architectural designing offered greater opportunities,
he decided to take up this interesting work.
In order to gain a thorough
knowledge of designing and a practical experience in all its details, Mr.
Cooney took employment with several architect’s offices in Stockton, spending
four years in securing the training he desired, and in 1917 he branched out for
himself and began to practice his profession.
His love for his work and his assiduous application to
it have brought him splendid success and his clientele is steadily
increasing.
Mr. Cooney is special architect for
the Wagner Leather Company and has drawn plans for a number of their new
buildings, including the $50,000 four-story brick building, a large warehouse
costing $30,000 at the foot of Weber Avenue, a $35,000 three-story building for
the artificial drying of leather, and other units for this company, such as sawtooth buildings, a commission that in itself denotes his
capability. Among the residences he has
designed are the Manthey home, and those of F. Quail,
A. Sattui, George Chillion,
G. Battistini, F. Hazelquest,
P. Sanguinetti and Mr. Thrash; also the parochial residence, mausoleum for
Father Bandini, a $60,000 apartment house on
California and Lafayette streets, Red Men’s Hall, and the addition to St.
Joseph’s Home, the M. Dentoni garage on North
California Street and others in Stockton.
He has also drawn plans for stores and homes at Manteca, Tracy and Lodi,
and one of the latest important commissions he has accepted is that of the new
Lilliputian Studios, the first studio to be erected in Stockton devoted to the
making of moving pictures.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1474. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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