Solano County Biographies

JAMES RONEY

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born September 20, 1847, and here 
received the ordinary elements of education as well as the academical branches 
of learning.  When only sixteen years old he went out to defend the honor and 
integrity of his country he loved so well, enlisting in Company B, Second 
Pennsylvania Artillery, serving in the Army of the Potomac, and honorably 
discharged at the close of the war.  April 1, 1869, he emigrated to this State, 
coming via the Isthmus, and settled in Vallejo.  On June 30, 1874, he bought the 
�Vallejo and San Francisco Express,� and is now transacting the business with 
Mr. Good, the firm being Good & Roney.  Married, in Vallejo, Miss Anna E., 
daughter of William Shillingsburg, on July 31, 1870.  William S., born April 19, 
1872; Isabella M., born August 18, 1874; Walter A., and George A., born December 
18, 1876; and Jessie, born March 26, 1879; are the names of their children.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 387