San Diego County Biographies
 
EUGENE DANEY 

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Was born in Bordeaux, France, October 11, 1862, of French parentage. He came to 
California in 1865, when three years old, with his mother and sister, his 
father, Michael Daney, having come to the coast in 1851, and being the 
discoverer of the celebrated " Daney Mine," at Silver City, Nevada. Mr. Daney 
was educated in the public schools of San Francisco, entered the Hastings 
College of the Law University of California in 1882, and graduated therefrom on 
the 25th day of May, 1885, receiving the degree of LL. B. After having been for 
three years a student of law under the late John Norton Pomeroy, LL. D., author 
of Pomeroy's Equity Jurisprudence, Pomeroy's Remedies and Remedial Rights, etc., 
he was admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of California, June 1, 
1885, and immediately entered into the practice of law at San Francisco. After 
two and a half years practice there he was attracted by the boom to Southern 
California, and removed to San Diego, November 7, 1887 and resumed the practice 
of law there. On the 6th of February, 1888, he was appointed Assistant District 
Attorney of San Diego County, and has served continuously since in that 
position. During that time he has successfully prosecuted a large number of 
criminal cases, and has earned for himself an enviable reputation as an able and 
successful criminal lawyer. He also holds the office of Notary Public, having 
been appointed by Governor Waterman to that office for the term of four years, 
from July, 1889. He also has been prominently identified with politics in San 
Diego County, being President of the Young Men's Republican League during the 
Harrison and Morton campaign,---the largest club in San Diego County,—its 
membership numbering over 400 of the most prominent young Republicans of the 
county; and also holding the position of treasurer of the Republican County 
Committee of San Diego County. Mr. Daney was married November 3, 1887, to Miss 
Elizabeth Florence Rines, of San Francisco, daughter of the late T. O. Rines, of 
Red Bluff, California. They have one son, born in San Diego, July 7, 1889.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California… Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  249