Alameda County Biographies

FREDERICK MALLEY

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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            Was born in Prussia March 23, 1842, where he resided until the 
spring of 1866, there learning the boot and shoe maker�s trade, and following it 
in his native land until this time.  He served in the Fifteenth Infantry for 
three years, and through the campaign of 1864 against Denmark, when he sailed 
form Bremerhaven for the United States.  After passing a few weeks in the city 
of New York, he proceeded to Philadelphia, but shortly afterwards moved to New 
Jersey and located at Egg Harbor City, Atlantic County.  At the end of four 
months he changed his residence to Buffalo, New York, where he stayed twelve 
months, and then took up his abode in Boston until February, 1868.  At that date 
he sailed for San Francisco via Panama, where he arrived April 1, 1868, and 
engaged in the shoe making business until the fall of the same year.  In the 
month of October he located in Dublin, Alameda County, and engaged in his proper 
calling, continuing it until December 27, 1869, when he came to Livermore, and 
commenced a boot and shoe-making business in Laddsville.  After the fire of 
October, 1871 he removed to Livermore proper, where he continued in the same 
business.  In the fall of 1881 he built the three storied edifice known as 
Malley�s Building, where he now carries on his business, which of late years has 
been very much enlarged � carrying a large stock of fancy goods and doing a 
prosperous trade.  Mr. Malley married, August 9, 1868, Miss Minnie Strecker, a 
native of Germany, and has four children:  Matilda M., George W., Frederick A., 
and William.  He is one of the oldest and best known business men in this 
section.
 
History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 930