Alameda County Biographies

Daniel Chisholm

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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Daniel Chisholm, one of the prominent and prosperous business men of Haywards, located there 
in 1879, and has been conspicuous in the establishment and management of the electric-light 
system of that place, which was put into operation in 1888.  By this system a company has been 
incorporated, comprising Messrs. Chisholm, Farrell and Ingram.  The power is located on A 
street, in the same building where are the wagon, carriage and agricultural works of Chisholm 
& Farrell.  This is also a general repair shop and blacksmith shop.  Wheelwrighting is also a 
specialty; and they also have a feed mill, where they grind different grains and sell the 
product to the local trade.  They employ about twelve men throughout the year.Mr. Chisholm was 
born September 23, 1854, in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, where he grew up and learned 
blacksmithing.  His father, Hugh Chisholm, was by occupation a school-teacher.  His mother�s 
name before marriage was Catherine Monroe, and the ancestry of both parents were Scotch.  
Mr. Chisholm, our subject, came into the United States in 1878, locating in Plumas County, 
where he remained one year; then he came to Haywards, worked for a time as a journeyman 
blacksmith, and later set up a shop for himself.  Finally he bought an interest in his present 
business, which by shrewd judgment and progressive ideas he has made firm and prosperous.
He was married in Oakland, March 19, 1885, to Miss Isabella V. Foster, and they have two 
children:  Zelda G. and an infant daughter, Trello A.  Mr. Chisholm is politically a Republican, 
and socially a member of Sycamore Lodge, No. 129, I.O.O.F., at Haywards.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891