Santa Clara County Obituaries

VOLNEY D. MOODY

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San Jose Daily Mercury, Friday Morning, March 29, 1901

Death of a Widely Known Pioneer Formerly of San Jose Volney D. Moody, for many 
years a resident of this city, died at his home in Berkeley Wednesday night, 
after a paralytic prostration of three years. He was a native of Rodman, 
Jefferson county, New York, where he was born, August 15, 1829. He was educated 
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and crossed the plains with his parents in 1849. He 
engaged in lumbering and milling in Santa Clara county, and with his brothers, 
Charles and David B. Moody, conducted Moody's mill on Third street near Santa 
Clara street, in this city, for nearly twenty years. Some years before the sale 
of their property to the Central Milling Company, now the Sperry Company, he 
disposed of his interest to his brothers and removed to Oakland, where he became 
largely interested in realty and numerous business enterprises. He has at 
various times been President of the First National Gold Bank, Home Savings Bank, 
and Vice-President of the State Bank, all of Oakland, also of the Oakland Home 
Insurance Company. He was at one time a part owner in the Moody gulch property, 
where the Santa Clara county oil wells are located. He leaves a son and two 
daughters. His estate is worth a half million dollars.