Patrick and Thomas arrived on the SS Independence
July 12, 1852
James Duval Phelan, born in San Francisco (April 20, 1861; died August 7, 1930), was the son of an Irish-born Forty-Niner who had become a San Francisco millionaire.
James Phelan was educated at St. Ignatius High School and graduated from the University of San Francisco in 1881. He went on to obtain a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
James Duval Phelan was elected mayor for three terms beginning in 1897 . . . without any previous political experience.
Following the earthquake of 1906, Phelan was President of the Red Cross Funds and designed by President Theodore Roosevelt as custodian of the Relief Funds. He also tried to relocate Chinatown to Hunter's Point.
He was also United States Senator in 1913 and served one six-year term.
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James Duval Phelan
This site started with my daughter's family tree homework project in 1998. The Project has taken us around the world in search of family. Our generational tree is now 5'x4' and goes back to the 1700s in Maine, and prior to that to Ireland, Wales and Germany. A family tree is a marvelous way to keep your family connected.
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Recommended Reading.
Books can be ordered just by clicking on a cover.
The Phelan Name in History.
The Annals of San Francisco by Frank Soule, John H. Gihon, James Nisbet
Originally published 1855. Many illustrations.
The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld
Herbert Asbury
Asbury's history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849..."
Travel with InternationalHarbors.com
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Contact: D. Blethen Adams Levy
www.MaritimeHeritage.org
Post Office Box 2878
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U.S.A.
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