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MRS. MARY SULLIVAN
A native daughter of San Joaquin
County who was born and reared on a farm and who is now engaged in raising
grapes is Mrs. Mary Sullivan. She was
born August 11, 1863, a daughter of that old pioneer Patrick Brennan, a native
of Ireland, who came to California and settled near Atlanta in the early ‘60s,
where he engaged in grain farming on a large scale. Miss Brennan attended the public school in
the Van Allen district of San Joaquin County, and
while still a young girl went to Hanford and lived with her brother, William J.
Brennan, who was at that time the proprietor of the Hanford Water Works.
On October 18, 1889, Miss Brennan
was married in San Francisco to Daniel J. Sullivan, born at Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, October 26, 1861, who when seven years of age was brought by his
parents to California where they settled in San Francisco. Daniel J. Sullivan grew up and received his
education in the schools of Milwaukee and San Francisco. Twenty-nine years ago he became identified
with the San Francisco Ice & Cold Storage Company and for some twenty-five
years filled the position of foreman.
Four years ago he resigned his position to engage in ranching. Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan are the parents of two
children: Margaret, born in San
Francisco, is the widow of Edward Carter, a distinguished member of the San
Francisco Fire Department who died of influenza November 5, 1918; William was
born in San Francisco in 1891 and resides at home with his parents, taking an
active part in the ranching work. The
forty-five acre ranch has been planted to alfalfa and the vineyard planted in
1921 shows ninety-five per cent of live, healthy vines. The ranch is located four miles west of
Escalon on the French Camp Road and has been brought to a high state of
cultivation. Mr. Sullivan has been a
member of the W. O. W. for the past twenty-two years. The success that has attended the efforts of
Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan is well merited; because they have labored
conscientiously and at all times have been generous in their dealings with their
fellow men.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1513. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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