"John Keogh...a resident of San Francisco for eighteen years... engaged in the wholesale upholstery business, was born in Ireland in August, 1846, and at an early age came with his parents to Canada, where he received his education in the schools of Georgetown. At the age of twenty-three years he removed to Chicago, where he commenced learning the wholesale upholstery business in the establishment of his uncle, William H. Keogh, the millionaire upholsterer and business man of Chicago. After remaining in that city five years, ...Mr. Keogh came to...San Francisco, where he at once engaged in the manufactory and sale of all species of upholstery goods and materials... He died November 24, 1889. Mr. Keogh was married in 1879 to Miss Marie E. Keogh, a native of Clare county, Ireland , and a daughter of Thomas Keogh, a merchant of Killaloe, Clare county. She was the grandaughter of Dr. William Nihill, a celebrated physician and surgeon of that county, who was succeeded by four sons, all prominent physicians in that part of Ireland. Mr. Keogh had a family of ten children, of whom six are now living..." Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 1, page 584-585, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~npmelton/sfbkeo.htm "THOMAS KEANE...was a resident of California since 1863, and up to the time of his death, in April, 1890...He was born in Kilrush, county Clare, Ireland, in 1841...Thomas received his early education in the school of the Christian Brothers, of Kilrush, where he graduated in 1856. He commenced his business education in his native land, serving an apprenticeship to the dry goods business, which he learned very thoroughly. In that country the young men apprentices to that trade learn not only how to sell goods, but of what material they are made and how they are woven, so that almost by the touch they can tell the quality of a fabric. He came to America in 1862, and was employed...in New York city. In 1863 he came to San Francisco, where he soon... open[ed] a dry-goods house on Third street...In 1867 Thomas Keane and his brother James formed a copartnership...under the firm name of Keane, O'Connor & Co. This business continued until...1879....Since his brother's death in 1880, Mr. Keane has been the sole manager of the business...In 1887 the business was moved to...Market street... In 1873 Mr. Keane was married to Miss Mary Josephine Difley, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, but who has been a resident of California since her early childhood. Her father, Peter Difley, also a native of Ireland, has been a successful business man of San Francisco, first as a contractor and builder, but for many years retired from business. Mrs. Keane...received... training...at the Convent of the Sacred Heart of San Francisco, where she graduated in 1869... Her mother...of a family highly connected in St. Louis. Her maiden name was Carlin, and town of Carlinville in Southern Illinois having been named for one of the family, Governor Thomas Carlin. Mr. Keane left a widow and eight children: the eldest, James, born in 1874, and the youngest, Marguerite, was less than a year old at her father's death....Mr. Keane was a Roman Catholic, and a member...of the Church of the Sacred Heart... " Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2, Page 265-6, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~npmelton/sfbkean.htm "Martin Leonard Smith was born May 13, 1828, in Montgomery County, Ohio, his parents being John (born and raised in Boston) and Catharine (Mowery, a native of Hagerstown, Maryland) Smith...In 1835 they went to South Bend, Indiana...The subject of this sketch lived in Elkhart till 1852....He left for California in the spring of 1852...After reaching California he visited...one place to another until 1855, then followed mining, and at last, not being very successful at mining, bought a ranch...about thirteen miles from Sacramento. Mr. Smith was married in 1855 to Miss Sarah Flanigan, a native of County Clare, Ireland; she was very young when she left the old country for Fall River, Massachusetts. In 1852 she came to California via Cape Horn. They had ten children, of whom nine are living: James, Henry, who died on this ranch at the age of nine years, Benjamin Franklin, Mrs. Mary Ann Burk, Lizzie, John, Agnes, Sallie, Katie, Lora, Gracie. Mrs. Smith died in December 1882. Mr. Smith married again, November 19, 1884, to Miss Ellen Donavan, of Sacramento, a native of ...Wales. Her parents were natives of Ireland..." An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California. By Hon. Win. J. Davis. Lewis Publishing Company 1890. Page 397-398 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~npmelton/sacsmit.htm "Michael F. Healy...resided in San Mateo county for 24 years...Since coming to South San Francisco Mr. Healy... was best known as a lumber man...his yards supplying lumber and building material to South San Francisco and many of the surrounding towns. He has now retired from this business and is devoting his time to the large grocery store of which he is the proprietor. ...He recently completed a term as city trustee and while in this office he was an indefatigable worker for South San Francisco. Michael F. Healy was born in County Claire, Ireland in June, 1852. After emigrating to America he spent some time in Worcester, Mass., where he was married in 1872. He brought his bride to California where he has resided for the past thirty-four years. Mr. Healy is a member of the Eagles." Source: History of San Mateo County by Philip W. Alexander & Charles P. Hamm page 148-149. Press of Burlingame Publishing Co., Burlingame, CA. 1916 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~npmelton/smheal.htm Transcribed by volunteers and posted here for help in locating family members, none of whom I am researching. Sharon Carberry Georgia