Alameda County Biographies

HUGH BERNARD McAVOY

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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            Was born in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, January 22, 1853, and is 
the son of Bernard and Isabell (Gallagher) McAvoy.  He came to California with 
his parents in 1858 and resided in Alameda County until he attained the age of 
fourteen years, when he moved to San Francisco and attended St. Mary�s College, 
from which he graduated in 1870.  He then entered the undertaking establishment 
of Flannagan & Gallagher in that city, where he remained until April 11, 1875, 
when he opened his business at No. 873 Washington Street, Oakland.
 
History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 935