San Diego County Biographies
 
EDWARD DOUGHERTY

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Among the pioneers of California we find many who were natives of other 
lands, who came here to take advantage of its broader resources, and the freedom 
of thought and speech, and among that number we must class Mr. Dougherty. He was 
born in Ireland, in September, 1834, being the oldest of a family of seven 
children. His father was a farmer. Edward came to the United States in 1850, 
alone, spending the first four years in a lumber camp on the Susquehanna river, 
in Pennsylvania, Clearfield County. They scored and hewed timber for market by 
the old method, using axes and broad-axes. In 1854 he came to California by the 
Isthmus of Panama. He then went to Calaveras County, where he mined for a time; 
then started a grocery store at Angel's Camp, and meeting with good success he 
continued for a number of years. In 1863 he moved to Copperopolis, continuing in 
the same business for five years. He then went to San Francisco, but on account 
of his health sought the milder climate of the south and came to San Diego, June 
15, 1869, where for fifteen years he was engaged in the liquor trade. He then 
went into the hay and grain business, and in 1886 entered into the real estate, 
having made many purchases of land prior to that date.
        Mr. Dougherty was married in San Francisco in 1868, to Miss Kate Mullon, 
a native of county Tyrone, Ireland. They reside in their residence on the corner 
of Cedar and Columbus streets, San Diego.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  325-326