San Joaquin County Biographies


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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 � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p     1640     
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.