MICHAEL F. HEALY

Michael F. Healy is a San Mateo County pioneer who has proved his confidence in the county and particularly in South San Francisco by the investment of his fortune in that city. Healy has resided in San Mateo county for 24 years, most of them being spent in South San Francisco where he is now the owner of a large grocery business and many other interests.

Since coming to South San Francisco Mr. Healy has engaged in many lines of business. He was best known as a lumber man, his yards supplying lumber man, his yards supplying lumber and building material to South San Francisco and many of the surrounding towns. He has now retired from this business and is devoting his time to the large grocery store of which he is the proprietor.

Mr. Healy has always taken an active interest in civic and municipal affairs. During his long residence in South San Francisco there has never been a general welfare movement in which he has not been a leader. He recently completed a term as city trustee and while in this office he was an indefatigable worker for South San Francisco.

Michael F. Healy was born in County Claire, Ireland in June, 1852. After emigrating to America he spent some time in Worcester, Mass., where he was married in 1872. He brought his bride to California where he has resided for the past thirty-four years. Mr. Healy is a member of the Eagles.

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

Source: History of San Mateo County by Philip W. Alexander & Charles P. Hamm page 148-149. Press of Burlingame Publishing Co., Burlingame, CA. 1916.

One of the best known residents of San Mateo County is Thomas L. Hickey who has been actively identified with the business, civic and fraternal interests of this section for many years. He has been a leading spirit in movements that tend to the betterment of this county and has made a host of friends through his general disposition.

Born in Chicago September 17, 1871, Mr. Hickey received his education in the public schools of that city. At an early age he entered the employ of the Armours where he remained four years. At the end of that period he was employed by Swift & Co., which firm sent him to California in 1892 to take charge of the killing department of the Western Meat Company’s plant at South San Francisco. He continued there until 1908. During these 16 years and to the present time he has remained a resident of South San Francisco. For the past five years Mr. Hickey has been a representative of the Equitable Life Assurance Society and his ability has frequently been recognized by the home office in New York. He has attended conventions of the representatives of the Society as a result of his successful efforts in affording protection in the form of life insurance.

Although actively engaged in business affairs, Mr. Hickey has always found time to display his interest and zeal in behalf of the county in which he makes his home. He was City Trustee of South San Francisco for six years from the time of its incorporation and many public improvements were well under way when he retired, leaving the completion to others. Mr. Hickey is one of the board of Governors of the San Mateo County Development Board and took an active interest in the campaign for good roads.

Mr. Hickey is a man of family. His son, Thomas E. Hickey, is a prominent figure in amateur athletics, especially in the departments of football and baseball. He has turned down several offers to enter the ranks of professional baseball preferring to continue his law studies at Santa Clara.

As a member of the Elks, Knights of Columbus and Loyal Order of Moose, Mr. Hickey has been a moving spirit in fraternal circles.

Source: History of San Mateo County by Philip W. Alexander & Charles P. Hamm page 135-136. Press of Burlingame Publishing Co., Burlingame, CA. 1916.

ASA EDWARD HULL

It is a well proven saying that, “A rolling stone gathers no moss,” while on the other hand the career of Asa Edward Hull who was born in San Carlos (San Mateo County) just goes to show that a man who sticks close to his native town and county, not only “gathers moss,” but earns the respect and admiration of his fellow townsmen.

Mr. Hull was born in San Carlos on July 1, 1870, his father’s name being Mr. Wm. Whipple Hull, being the pioneer brick maker of this county. He received his education in the San Mateo County schools, and began at an early date to master the dairying and farming business, which he will testify has as many technicalities and ins and outs as any of the so-called “chosen professions.” He thoroughly mastered these pursuits, and then went into the hardware business. At the present time he is President of Hull Bros. Hardware Company, located in Redwood City, and is also a director of the San Mateo County Building and Loan Association.

Mr. Hull has always taken pride in the condition of his herds, taking great care that no diseased animal should corrupt the output of milk, cream and butter fat. His herd of Holstein cows is the largest tested herd in the county, and attracted considerable attention recently by the creditable manner in which they passed the tuberculin test, which in the last few years has become extremely rigid.

When Mr. Hull was only fifteen years old he went into business for himself in 1885. Besides business friends and acquaintances innumerable throughout the county, Mr. Hull takes an active interest in fraternal circles where he is very popular, belonging to B.P.O.E., 1112 and also N.S.G.W., Parlor 66.

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

Source: History of San Mateo County by Philip W. Alexander & Charles P. Hamm page 138-139. Press of Burlingame Publishing Co., Burlingame, CA. 1916.

Mr. and Mrs. Hunt are one of San Mateo’s pioneer families and on Mrs. Hunt’s side come from a family of pioneers. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt originally settled in the immediate neighborhood of their present home, 317 Ellsworth avenue, at a time when there were only two or three neighbors within calling distance. They bought their home direct from the Howards who at that time practically owned the entire city of San Mateo. Two picturesque log cabins were erected on their lots, one of which they occupied themselves. One of these cabins was burned down not so long ago, but another was soon erected in its place. These cabins stand today as one of the show places of San Mateo, simple yet artistic and inviting from the outside. The interior of Mrs. Hunt’s cabin is the very picture of an ideal home with its dainty furniture, wide tiled fireplace and beautiful fixtures. The grounds surrounding it are laid out in harmonious detail and fenced in by a low wall of rustic redwood boards.

Mr. and Mrs. Hunt were married in the east on October 21, 1868 on a farm near Trenton, New Jersey, and soon after this came out to California and settled in San Mateo where they have been living for the last twenty-five years, with the exception of a short period spent in San Francisco and Stockton.

Mr. Hunt was a successful dry goods merchant and dealt largely also in wholesale millinery. He has now retired from active business and is living comfortably off the proceeds of the money he made in his earlier and more active years.

Mrs. Hunt comes from a family noted for their longevity, springing from the Philadelphia Biddles, her grandmother being a Biddle. Both her mother and father lived to a ripe old age and passed the last years of their lives close to their daughter; both died under her roof.

No couple in San Mateo have a larger number of loving friends than Mr. and Mrs. Hunt, as their circle of acquaintances embraces not only those who are numbered among the early settlers of the town, but large numbers who have built their homes in San Mateo in the later years.

Mrs. Hunt belongs to the Laurel Chapter of the Eastern Star; and Mr. Hunt is a member of the Knights of Pythias which he joined in 1877 in Stockton, affiliating himself with Centennial No. 138.

Source: History of San Mateo County by Philip W. Alexander & Charles P. Hamm page 124. Press of Burlingame Publishing Co., Burlingame, CA. 1916.

Joseph Kellogg Hutchinson

Joseph Kellogg Hutchinson was born in San Francisco, November 25, 1888. He is the son of Joseph and Kate (Kellogg) Hutchinson.

His first paternal ancestor in America was John Hutchinson, who came to Pennsylvania from London, England, in 1780, settling in Philadelphia. His wife was Margaret Fimister. their son Joseph married Rachael Coates Burr, of Philadelphia. James Sloan Hutchinson, their son, was the first member of the family who came to California; he was the grandfather of the subject of this statement. His wife was Coralie Demahaut Pearsoll. He came from Philadelphia to San Francisco by sailing vessel in the year 1848. He was one of the founders and manager of the banking house of Sather & Company, and was also an organizer and the first secretary of the San Francisco Clearing House Association.

Their son, Joseph Hutchinson, the father of the subject, was born in San Francisco, graduated from the University of California in 1878, then from Hastings College of Law, thereafter becoming a member of the bar, practicing in San Francisco until his death in 1910.

The subject's first maternal ancestor in America was Lieut. Joseph Kellogg, who came from Great Leighs, County Essex, England, to Farmington, Connecticut, where he settled in 1651. Thereafter through five generations the Kellogg family resided in Massachusetts, variously at Hadley, Westfield and Sheffield. The subject's maternal grandfather, George Henry Kellogg, who was married to Catherine D. Flint, of North Reading, Massachusetts, came to San Francisco in 1850, living there and in Redwood City until his death. He was a partner of Flint, Peabody & Company, merchants and shippers.

Joseph K. Hutchinson was educated at Belmont School, thence entering the law school of Leland Stanford Junior University, where he completed his course with the academic class of 1909 and the Juris Doctor class of 1911. He was admitted to the bar in 1911, since then practicing in San Francisco, where he is a member of the firm of Knight, Boland, Hutchinson & Christin. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, California State Bar Association and San Francisco Bar Association. During the war he was commissioned in the United States Navy as lieutenant (j.g.). He is a republican and was brought up a Presbyterian.

On March 29, 1913, he married Katharine Hooper, daughter of Joseph G. Hooper, banker, of San Francisco. There is one child, Joseph Kent Hutchinson, born December 4, 1920.

Transcribed August 17, 2004 Marilyn R. Pankey

Source: "The San Francisco Bay Region"by Bailey Millard Vol. 3 page 412-413. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc. 1924.