John Daly left Boston with his mother in 1853. She died from yellow fever during the Panama Crossing, so John arrived in San Francisco as a penniless 13-year-old orphan.
Fortunately, San Francisco was short of hands at that time, so John was able to find a number of odd jobs, such as riding the mail from San Francisco and working on a dairy farm. Eventually he learned the dairy business, married his employer's daughter, saved some money, and bought 250 acres of land just outside the city where he started his own dairy farm.
In 1906 San Franciscans frightened by the earthquake and fire poured out of the city. John Daly, by now a prosperous man ready to retire, subdivided his land, sold it to them, and moved to this mansion. His former dairy farm is now known as Daly City in his honor.
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