California Biographies Mendocino and Lake Counties, California Transcribed by Peggy Hooper This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm Source: History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California With Biographical Sketches History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry Illustrated, Complete In One Volume Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914 FRANKLIN WAYNE DOOLEY.� The possibilities afforded by North- ern California to its native sons appear in the substantial and satisfactory business achievements of Franklin Wayne Dooley, who was born near Hop- land June 18, 1874, and is now the owner of a large store at this place, the whole representing the energy, perseverance, acumen and efficiency which he has thrown into commercial pursuits. The family is of well-known, sturdy pioneer stock. The life of his father, Elijah Dooley (represented elsewhere in this volume), has been associated with the welfare of Mendocino county for many years and has been a factor in community progress by reason of hon- orable principles and patriotic loyalty. Reared on the home farm and edu- cated in local schools, the son of this pioneer family remained at home until twenty-one years of age, when lack of robust health caused him to travel extensively through Arizona, New ^Mexico and Texas, returning to Cali- fornia via Wyoming and Nevada, so that he not only regained his health, but also acquired an excellent knowledge of the entire west. After having been employed for two years on a ranch near lone, Amador county, and after spending a summer in Trinity county, this state, he returned to Hop- land prepared to take up life's activities with earnestness and directness of purpose. Owing to lack of means it was necessary for ^Ir. Dooley to start in busi- ness very modestly and cautiously. His first place of business was scarcely more than a hole in the wall, but there was a counter with space for the display of a small stock of confectionery. There he spent the summer of 1898, but after five months in the smalt room he bought out the grocery business of Duncan & Carlisle and moved across the street to a corner room. After the admission of H. H. Gibson as a partner in the business the title was changed to Dooley & Gibson. A few years later the partners bought the Stevenson store in old Hopland. For a brief period the two stores were conducted in partnership, but soon by dissolution of the partnership Air. Gibson acquired the old Hopland business, while Mr. Dooley continued general merchandis- ing in Hopland. ^Meantime he had moved the store to the west side, where he purchased a corner. 80x150 feet, with a building 80x70, adequately equipped for the management of a modern business. The stock is said to be the largest in this part of the county and includes dry goods, glass and queensware, hard- ware, groceries, flour and feed, and a line of wagons, carriages and agricul- tural implements manufactured at Moline, Ill., by the International Harvester Company. In a separate part of the same building is located the Hopland postoffice, with Mrs. Dooley as the postmistress. In San Jose, this state, Air. Dooley married Miss Dorothea Hegeman, a native of Gilroy, Santa Clara county, and a daughter of George and Mary E. (Hooper) Hegeman, pioneers of that section of California. After the death of Mr. Hegeman the widow continued to own and operate the large stock ranch near Gilroy, but is now making her home with Mrs. Dooley in Mendocino county. The three children of Air. and Mrs. Dooley are Dorothea Hegeman, Franklin Wayne, Jr., and Marie Elizabeth. Stanchly Democratic in his polit- ical sentiments, Mr. Dooley is an active member of the county central com- mittee and the State Democratic League. For four years he served as con- stable of Sanel township and for nine years filled the office of deputy sheriff, his service in that long period being in the interests of law and order and the impartial administration of justice. In fraternal relations he is a member of the Santa Rosa Lodge of Elks.