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JAMES
MANGAN A
native son of California and of Sacramento, James Mangan was born May
18, 1865. His father, Peter Mangan, married Miss Kate Hennesy, who came
from Ireland to California when she was quite young and with three
sisters located in this city. The elder Mangan came to California in the
pioneer days and located in Sacramento, where he was a blacksmith and a
veterinarian. Pie was interested in local politics and met with success
as a business man. He passed away in 1880, and his son, after leaving
the public school, learned the blacksmith's and horseshoer's trade under
the instruction of Harry Bennett of Sacramento, and he has followed that
vocation to the present time. After leaving Mr. Bennett he was employed
as horseshoer on Haggin grant, and later for David Ahem in the same
capacity, and he continued there until he started a shoeing shop in San
Francisco. A year later he returned to Sacramento and bought an interest
in an old shoeing shop with John Wizel. This was located on Ninth
street, and he continued doing business at this location for four years,
at which time he sold out in order to buy out Winters & Morgan at
No. 1228 J street, which has been his place of business since. He makes
a specialty of the shoeing of horses. In his political affiliations he
is a Democrat and he was recently the nominee of his party for the
office of city trustee to represent the Eighth ward. In the primary
election in 1912 he was unanimously nominated as the Democratic
candidate for supervisor for the Third Supervisorial district of
Sacramento. He is a member of the Master Horseshoers' Association, and
he and his family are communicants of the Catholic church. His mother is
his housekeeper; his brothers Frank and Peter Mangan are connected with
the Sacramento fire department; Mary, his eldest sister, married T. L.
Enright of this city; his sister Martha is the wife of Charles Nichols
of Sacramento, and Belle, his youngest sister, is a member of his
household. As a whole, the immigrants coming to the United States have met with success, and with few exceptions, compared to our whole population, the offspring of these immigrants have been exceedingly successful. This fact is well illustrated in Mr. Mangan 's career. He is a skillful mechanic, a man of enterprise and progressive ideas and a public-spirited citizen who loyally does his part in the promotion of the general good. |
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Source: Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011 |