Humboldt County
Jerry Sheehan
Biography
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Nevada Genealogy Trails Humboldt County Jerry Sheehan Biography |
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JERRY SHEEHAN, county recorder and ex-officio auditor of Humboldt county, Nevada, has been a resident of this state ever since he was five years old. He was born in Johnson county. Wyoming, May 19, 1870, a son of John and Catharine (Buckley) Sheehan, both natives of county Cork. Ireland, whence they emigrated to America in 1850. They first located in New York, and then came to Wyoming, and from .there to Nevada in 1875.
Jerry Sheehan was left an orphan at the age of thirteen, and thus deprived of the care and assistance of these worthy and excellent parents, he fought the battles of life pretty much by himself, and has won most of them. He was educated in the public schools and in the Nevada State University before it was removed from Elko to Reno. He then learned telegraphy, and was in the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company for sixteen years, a part of the time in the office as operator, and in the train service from Wells to Wadsworth rose from brakeman to conductor, which last position he held until he was appointed recorder of Humholdt county in June, 1902, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. J. J. Hill. In the fall of the same year he was elected to this office, whose duties he has so capably and energetically discharged to the present time. He is a good business man, and because of his splendid penmanship and his methodical care the records of the county are beautifully kept.
In 1895 Mr. Sheehan was married to Miss Fanny Muller, of German ancestry. They have two little daughters, Evaline and Grace. Mr. Sheehan is a member of the Order of Railway Conductors and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. In politics he is a Democrat, and is highly esteemed by all for his pleasant, genial ways and for his whole-souled worth as a citizen and official.
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