Historical Clippings Book - Nevada County Citizens (HC-07) (296 pages)

QR © . Ridge Native/?°~ . boy and became a copy boy on the! Who Became PGE FE ° ° xecutive, Dies Apr 7,14 SF John P. Coghlan, native of North Columbia, Nevada county and reared at North Bloomfield, who . became one of the top executives jof the Pacific Gas ard Electric 82 years, He had been ill for a lengthy period. ae Coghlan retired from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in 1954. He had served as assistant to the president for 31 years, vice presidert for 27 years and member of Coghlan joined the Pacific Gas and Electric Company shortly after it was organized in 1906. : He went to San Francisco as a old San Francisco Post at the age of 14. Two years later he was a reporter and studied law at night school and after passing the bar examination in 1898 and a brief political career he joined P.G. & E. as a legal expert. He is the father of John P. Coghlan, Jr., mayor of Hillsborough. Other survivors include his widow, Mabel; three daugraters, Elizabeth Ann Lawry, Virginia MacLear: and . Jean McChesney, all of San Francisco; a brother, James Henry Coghlan, and a sister, Mrs. James P. Butler, also of San Francisco, and 13 grandchildren. Requiem mass will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Vincent ' de Paul church, Green and Steiner streets. The Rosary will be recited . tonight at the chapel of Carew & English, 250 Masonic Avenue. Interment will be private. Company, died at his home in San} . Francisco Sunday at the age of the board of directors for 27 years. . ) Annie F’. Conlin: at End of Life this city’s strongly admired and veteran teachers, with a career of 53 years in the city schools, died at her home 338 Mill street at 9:45 o'clock this morning. Complete obituary details will follow in Tuesday’s Union, Miss Conlin was a charter member of Manzanita Parlor No. 29, Native Daugsiters of the Golden West. E ‘ Rosary wu:\\be recited at the Hooper-Weaver Mortuary chapel at 8 p.m, Tuesday, December 27th and memorial mass will be observed for repose of the soul at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church at 10 a. m. Wednesday, Dec, 28th. Annie F. Conlin. Rosary Tonight; Riles Tomorrow , Rosary services in memory of Annie Florence Conlin, 89, tecently deceased Giars alley native and veteran schoolteacher, will be heid at 8 o’clock tonight at the chavel «f the HooperWeaver Mortuary, with friends invited. St. Pairick’s Church mass will be celebrated at 10 o’clock tomorrow inorning, December 21; with interment following in the Catholic Cemetery. _ Miss Conlin, ‘a widely admired teacher of the middle elementary grades of tine Graus Valley schools for years, with her teaching career covering 53 years, died at hey thome 338 Mill street yesterday morning. This is the same site but not the same house in which she. was; born. A native of Gralss Valley, horn } November 14, 1866, ‘Miss Annie F. Conlin spent ther entire life in. this city, which knew ‘her for a very capable, kindly and sympathetic teacher, devout member of the Catholic Church, member cf the Grass Valley Library board cf trustees for more than 20 years and ‘charter member of the Iccal Manzanita Parlor No, 29,Native Daughters of the Golden West. : Pioneer Parents Her ‘parents were Mr. and Mrs. Francis Conlin, early day seltlers in Graos Valley and it was from their pione2r ‘therllage that Miss Contin became so deeply interested in the ‘hittory of — thie grea and of California as an act~ ive and prominent Native Daugha ‘. elub and sheld important chaic. manships and committee assenments, She was a charter mem=ber. As a devout church member, Miss Conlin was also affiliated with all the (Catholic societies of earlier years, spending much of her time in welfare and charitable work. ; two sisters, Miss Elizabeth Conter. She was a past president cf the NDGW javlor and a_ past president of the pact presidents “She accepted a position . as member of the board of trustees ot the Grass Valley Public Library when renovation of the staff, physical properties and policies were necessary and was proud of her part in making the library a vital influence and langely attended and used service. Bereaved Family Bereaved family members are lin, Grass Valley; Davey, Nevada City; two nephews, Russell Davey, Berkeley; Charles 1. Davey, Washington, D. C. and a niece, Mis. Frances Chapman, Marysville. Miss Conlin was .one of those unselfish women, who devoted her life to education. She attended San Jose Nonmal School after completing schooling in Grass Valley and received her teaching credential. For more than a talf century she taught successive grades of Grass Valley children with such solicitation, sympathy and kindness that “Miss Conlin” always remained in their memory as one who had a very major part in their development, Mrs. Harry Miscellany — Over the last week-end Fred /Chegwidden, who lives in Ons S SUSIE AWES Visited by three nieces of the Bay region once known in Nevada City as the “Moore Girls. ’ Their father was James Moore, at one time foreman of the Champjon mine, The married names of the sisters are Mrs. H. H. Sack, Mrs. Ridley Leach, Mrs. Bernice Raliegh. The family home Was the large residence situated on Piety Hill and built by the later Senator Stewart of Neavda. The tradition is that Stewart, who mined along the Yubas, built the fine home for his intended bride. But the marriage, at the instance ‘of the brideto-be never took place. Stewart was early at the Comstock, where he became a noted attorney and later United States senator from . Nevada. . fa Pes The sisters visited their former home and were .shown every courtesy by the. present occupants. --— iy.

QR © . Ridge Native/?°~ . boy and became a copy boy on the! Who Became PGE FE ° ° xecutive, Dies Apr 7,14 SF John P. Coghlan, native of North Columbia, Nevada county and reared at North Bloomfield, who . became one of the top executives jof the Pacific Gas ard Electric 82 years, He had been ill for a lengthy period. ae Coghlan retired from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in 1954. He had served as assistant to the president for 31 years, vice presidert for 27 years and member of Coghlan joined the Pacific Gas and Electric Company shortly after it was organized in 1906. : He went to San Francisco as a old San Francisco Post at the age of 14. Two years later he was a reporter and studied law at night school and after passing the bar examination in 1898 and a brief political career he joined P.G. & E. as a legal expert. He is the father of John P. Coghlan, Jr., mayor of Hillsborough. Other survivors include his widow, Mabel; three daugraters, Elizabeth Ann Lawry, Virginia MacLear: and . Jean McChesney, all of San Francisco; a brother, James Henry Coghlan, and a sister, Mrs. James P. Butler, also of San Francisco, and 13 grandchildren. Requiem mass will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Vincent ' de Paul church, Green and Steiner streets. The Rosary will be recited . tonight at the chapel of Carew & English, 250 Masonic Avenue. Interment will be private. Company, died at his home in San} . Francisco Sunday at the age of the board of directors for 27 years. . ) Annie F’. Conlin: at End of Life this city’s strongly admired and veteran teachers, with a career of 53 years in the city schools, died at her home 338 Mill street at 9:45 o'clock this morning. Complete obituary details will follow in Tuesday’s Union, Miss Conlin was a charter member of Manzanita Parlor No. 29, Native Daugsiters of the Golden West. E ‘ Rosary wu:\\be recited at the Hooper-Weaver Mortuary chapel at 8 p.m, Tuesday, December 27th and memorial mass will be observed for repose of the soul at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church at 10 a. m. Wednesday, Dec, 28th. Annie F. Conlin. Rosary Tonight; Riles Tomorrow , Rosary services in memory of Annie Florence Conlin, 89, tecently deceased Giars alley native and veteran schoolteacher, will be heid at 8 o’clock tonight at the chavel «f the HooperWeaver Mortuary, with friends invited. St. Pairick’s Church mass will be celebrated at 10 o’clock tomorrow inorning, December 21; with interment following in the Catholic Cemetery. _ Miss Conlin, ‘a widely admired teacher of the middle elementary grades of tine Graus Valley schools for years, with her teaching career covering 53 years, died at hey thome 338 Mill street yesterday morning. This is the same site but not the same house in which she. was; born.

A native of Gralss Valley, horn } November 14, 1866, ‘Miss Annie F. Conlin spent ther entire life in. this city, which knew ‘her for a very capable, kindly and sympathetic teacher, devout member of the Catholic Church, member cf the Grass Valley Library board cf trustees for more than 20 years and ‘charter member of the Iccal Manzanita Parlor No, 29,Native Daughters of the Golden West. : Pioneer Parents Her ‘parents were Mr. and Mrs. Francis Conlin, early day seltlers in Graos Valley and it was from their pione2r ‘therllage that Miss Contin became so deeply interested in the ‘hittory of — thie grea and of California as an act~ ive and prominent Native Daugha ‘. elub and sheld important chaic. manships and committee assenments, She was a charter mem=ber. As a devout church member, Miss Conlin was also affiliated with all the (Catholic societies of earlier years, spending much of her time in welfare and charitable work. ; two sisters, Miss Elizabeth Conter. She was a past president cf the NDGW javlor and a_ past president of the pact presidents “She accepted a position . as member of the board of trustees ot the Grass Valley Public Library when renovation of the staff, physical properties and policies were necessary and was proud of her part in making the library a vital influence and langely attended and used service. Bereaved Family Bereaved family members are lin, Grass Valley; Davey, Nevada City; two nephews, Russell Davey, Berkeley; Charles 1. Davey, Washington, D. C. and a niece, Mis. Frances Chapman, Marysville. Miss Conlin was .one of those unselfish women, who devoted her life to education. She attended San Jose Nonmal School after completing schooling in Grass Valley and received her teaching credential. For more than a talf century she taught successive grades of Grass Valley children with such solicitation, sympathy and kindness that “Miss Conlin” always remained in their memory as one who had a very major part in their development, Mrs. Harry Miscellany — Over the last week-end Fred /Chegwidden, who lives in Ons S SUSIE AWES Visited by three nieces of the Bay region once known in Nevada City as the “Moore Girls. ’ Their father was James Moore, at one time foreman of the Champjon mine, The married names of the sisters are Mrs. H. H. Sack, Mrs. Ridley Leach, Mrs. Bernice Raliegh. The family home Was the large residence situated on Piety Hill and built by the later Senator Stewart of Neavda. The tradition is that Stewart, who mined along the Yubas, built the fine home for his intended bride. But the marriage, at the instance ‘of the brideto-be never took place. Stewart was early at the Comstock, where he became a noted attorney and later United States senator from . Nevada. . fa Pes The sisters visited their former home and were .shown every courtesy by the. present occupants. --— iy.