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JOHN T. DOYLE
JOHN T. DOYLE, superintendent
of Eureka Warehouses (the Farmers’ Co-operative Union of San Joaquin Valley,
proprietors), and member of the Stockton City Council, is a native of New York city, born January 9, 1850. He was reared in the American
metropolis, and there received his education and practical business training.
In 1876 he came to California, locating in Stockton, and was for two years
connected with the Stockton Warehouse. Since 1878 he has been superintendent of
the Eureka Warehouses, handling that exacting business with rare ability. In
1882 he was nominated and elected to the City Council, serving till the spring
of 1884, and declining renomination. Under the new charter, however, he was
elected in the fall of 1884, and has been an active and influential member of
that body ever since, by virtue of re-election in 1886, 1888 (during which term
he served as president of the council), and in 1889. He has always taken an
active part in the committee work, and is now chairman of the Finance
Committee, and a member of the committee on Ordinances and Judiciary, on Public
Improvements, and on Printing and Education. He has for a number of years held
a high place in the councils of the Democratic party,
and in the fall of 1888 received the unanimous nomination of the party’s
convention for Assemblyman from this district. He declined the honor, which
carried with it the certainty of election, on account of his business
engagements, and in May of last year declined the nomination for Mayor,
preferring his active business life. From January, 1887, to June, 1889, Mr.
Doyle was President of the Y. M. I. of this city, and he represented the local
Institute in the second, third and fourth Grand Councils. In the last mentioned
he was Second Grand Vice-President of the Grand Council, and is now a Deputy
Grand President of that flourishing organization. He has been President of the
Irish-American Benevolent Society for a number of years.
When the volunteer fire
department was in vogue, he was its secretary two terms, and also held the
position of foreman of Protection Hook and Ladder Company, being one of the
representatives from this company in the Board of Delegates, Stockton Fire
Department, during all the time he was connected with the department.
Mr. Doyle is an enterprising
young man, affable and agreeable, and is very popular, having a large circle of
warm personal friends.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 460. Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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