Alameda County Biographies

ANDREW J. McGOVERN

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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            Was born in Albany, New York, October 27, 1852, and there resided 
until the year 1868.  He then sailed from New York to San Francisco, where he 
arrived December 16, 1868, and first found employment as office-boy in the 
Second Street House.  A short time after, however, he entered the service of G. 
W. Clark & Co., in the wall-paper business, and there continued for seven years. 
 He then came to Oakland and commenced his present establishment at No. 1157 
Broadway, under the style of Van Amburgh & McGovern.  At the end of ten months, 
however, he purchased the interest of his partner, and a few months later 
associated himself with James Cahill, and in December, 1881, opened his 
extensive premises, No. 1060 Broadway, under the firm name of McGovern & Cahill, 
dealers in carpets, paper-hangings, window-shades, etc.  Married, in 1879, Miss 
Mary Carey, and has two children, viz.:  Francis Andrew and Genevieve.
 
History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 936