[p. 1007] who is engaged in an insurance, loan and real estate business at Mahoningtown, with offices in the Sheehy Block, on Liberty Street, has been located in this town since December 1889. He was born at Youngstown, Ohio, January 23, 1861, and is a son of Robert and Mary Sheehy.
John Y. Sheehy was reared at Youngstown, and after leaving school went right to work. His father was engineer for the Youngstown Water Works and John Y. became fireman, and during his leisure moments he learned stenography. For some twenty years he was in the employ of the Pennsyvania Railroad Company, west of Pittsburg, a part of the time being a member of the office force and for fourteen years train dispatcher, with headquarters at Lawrence Junction and New Castle. Mr. Sheehy is a man who values his spare time and for twelve years while filling various positions with the railroad company, he carried on an insurance and real estate business as a side line. He made many friends and gained a large amount of patronage, and when, on October 1, 1901, he gave up railroading, he did not start into an unfamiliar line, but merely enlarged his scope. He purchased his present building on Liberty Street, with a frontage of 150 feet, on October 1, 1906. It is a commodious building of brick construction, three stories in height and contains two large storerooms and four comfortable modern flats. Mr. Sheehy is special agent for the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company of San Francisco, and of the Home Fire and Marine Insurance Company. In addition he represents many fire and life companies, handling all kinds of risks and covering six counties direct. All reports go through his office.
Mr. Sheehy married Sarah E. Yates, a daughter of Timothy Yates, and they have four children: Hazel A., who is the wife of R. C. Miller, also in the insurance business; Robert; Florence, and John Webb. Mr. Sheehy is a charter member of Amazon Lodge, No. 336, Knights of Pythias. He is one of the town's most enterprising and successful citizens.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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