Alameda County Biographies

MICHAEL J. KELLER

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	Was born in County Cork, Ireland, September 29, 1844, and there resided and served a 
regular apprenticeship to the dry goods trade.  In April, 1868, he sailed for San Francisco, 
and arrived in the following month; he then proceeded to Sacramento, where he found employment 
in a drygoods store for a short time. He subsequently opened a store in Marysville, and there 
resided eight years.  After spending two years in San Francisco, in March, 1878, he came to 
Oakland, entered the employ of Miller Brothers, continued with their successors, and in March, 
1879, opened his present shirt manufactory and store at No. 1007 Broadway.  Is married and has 
one child, named George M.

History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 921-922