Alameda County Biographies

John Heafey

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	John Heafey is the junior member of the firm of Chambers & Heafey, contractors of 
Oakland, who are engaged in general cement construction, sewer work and water works. He 
came to Oakland in 1901 and has resided here continuously throughout the intervening twelve 
years. His birth occurred in County Waterford, Ireland, on the 3rd of June, 1881, his parents 
being John and Margaret Heafey. He attended the public schools until a youth of sixteen and 
subsequently worked for his father until he had attained the age of nineteen years. At that time 
he emigrated to the United States, making his way direct to Oakland, California. Here he secured 
employment as a carpenter with his brother William, engaged in the contracting business, 
remaining in his service until 1907, when he became a partner of his brother. In January, 1911, 
he sold out to his brother and formed a partnership with Mr. Chambers under the name of 
Chambers & Heafey, which firm has built up an extensive and profitable business in general cement 
construction, sewer work and water works. The junior partner is a young man who has been well 
trained in his chosen field of labor and merits the success which he now enjoys.
	On the 7th of February, 1911, in Sebastopol, California, Mr. Heafey was joined in wedlock 
to Miss Mary McSorley. He gives his political allegiance to the republican party and has fraternal 
relations with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, belonging to Berkeley Lodge. In religious faith 
he is a Catholic. Both he and his wife have a large circle of friends and acquaintances and are held 
in the highest regard by all who know them.

Past & Present of Alameda County, California � Vol II, S. J. Clarke Publ. Co., 1914, p. 111