A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . le was born in county Kildare, Leinster,Ireland, in 1836, and until he was thirteen yearsof age received a fairly good education in theprivate schools of his native country. Whenalmost too young to realize his loss a void wasleft in the home by the death of the mother,and in 1849 the father brought his children toAmerica. Not wishing to be a burden to othersof the family, boy though he was, P. W. Do)-leimmediately sought employment, which
A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . le was born in county Kildare, Leinster,Ireland, in 1836, and until he was thirteen yearsof age received a fairly good education in theprivate schools of his native country. Whenalmost too young to realize his loss a void wasleft in the home by the death of the mother,and in 1849 the father brought his children toAmerica. Not wishing to be a burden to othersof the family, boy though he was, P. W. Do)-leimmediately sought employment, which he asreadily found. Later he went to Rochester, , and learned the carpenters trade, and whenonly sixteen years old was competent to workat his trade independently, following the samein the east until 1864, when he removed to Cleve-land. Ohio. There in addition to work at thecarpenters trade he branched out into contract-ing and building, which he followed with ex-cellent success for twenty-one vears, or untilcoming to California in 1885. The same yearmarks his adve-it into Pomona, at which time hepurchased nine acres of the Kingsley tract, on the. ^JI</ HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 939 corner of Olive and San Antonio avenue. Theland was thoroughly piped for irrigation andalso with water for domestic use, a feature whichniade it especially desirable, and one which keenly appreciated at the time of water has since been secured by boring,and a pumping plant has also been establishedon the ranch. ;\Ir. Doyle set out both orangesand prunes en his ranch, the latter proving anexcellent and remunerative crop during the earlierdays, bringing as high as $500 per acre, but whenthe prune market became overstocked he re-placed his prune trees with navel oranges andnow has his entire acreage in this fruit. Inaddition to the care of his orchard he has fol-lowed contracting and building ever since com-ing to Pomona, and many fine residences, storesand
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