San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 10/20/2009
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.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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