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Philip J. McGrath
Biography
(Transcribed by Andaleen Whitney)
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Nevada Genealogy Trails Mineral County Philip J. McGrath Biography (Transcribed by Andaleen Whitney) |
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PHILIP J. McGRATH, superintendent of the Carson and Colorado Railroad, with headquarters at Hawthorne, Nevada, is a native of California, having been born in Weaverville, March 26, 1864. His father, Philip McGrath, was born in Ireland in 1820. He came to this country in 1846, and for four years was in the employ of the Hon. Daniel Webster. In 1850 he came to California and engaged in mining, but later started a store in San Francisco, most of his placer mining having been done in Trinity county. Still later he moved to Virginia City, Nevada, and was a machinist on the Comstock, spending the balance of his life there and dying in 1890, aged seventy years. He married Miss Catherine Burke, a native of Ireland, and she now resides in San Francsico aged sixty-three years. In politics he had been a Democrat, and both he and his wife were devout members of the Roman Catholic church. They were the parents of six children, of whom five are now living. Philip J. McGrath, the only one of the children in Nevada, was educated in the public schools of Virginia City, and was only ten years of age when the family located in that place. He learned telegraphy and was first employed by the Virginia and Truckee Railroad Company. For eight years he was in the railroad mail service, after which he acted as agent at Mound House for the Carson and Colorado and the Virginia and Trucks Railroads for eight years. His next change was when he came to Hawthorne as clerk and train dispatcher under Superintendent Laws. Mr. Laws went to the Sacramento division of the road in 1902, and Mr. McGrath succeeded to the position of superintendent, having thus worked his way up from the position of telegraph operator. In politics he is independent. He is a member of the Elks fraternity, and adheres to the faith of the Roman Catholic church. In 1901 he was married to Mary Roberts, a native of Nevada and a daughter of J. B. Roberts, a poineer of the state and the builder of the Lake House. Mr. McGrath is a very energetic and capable business man, and the success which has attended his efforts is but the just reward of intelligent work directed along legitimate channels.
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