Frainey, James

FRAINEY

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 12/16/2008 at 14:22:50

James Frainey

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.22, Council Bluffs)
James Frainey, merchant tailor, Council Bluffs, was born in Connaught, Ireland, in 1837, where he remained until he seven years of age, when he removed with his parents to Lancashire, England. He served his apprenticeship to the tailor's trade in England, and in 1852, came to this country and located in New York City. he worked at his trade in that city for two years, then moved to Chicago; after working there two years, mvoed to St. Louis, Mo.; and, after working there a year, returned to New York City. He pursued his trade in that city for a year, then in Charleston, S. C., for a year, then went to Nashville, Tenn., where he began as a cutter and remained there four years. From Nashville he went to St. Louis, Mo., remained there for or five years then came to Omaha, opened up a shop there for himself, and in 1870 came to Council Bluffs. Here he ran a shop a short time then engaged as a cutter with Oberfelder & Newman, with whom he remained till the summer of 1882, when he opened up his fine merchant tailoring establishment at 332 Broadway. He carries one of the finest and newest stocks in his line in the city, and is meeting with an extensive patronage. He employs eighteen men constantly and pays the highest price for skilled labor. In 1872, he married Miss Mary J. Buckley, of Beloit, Wis., and by this union they have had six children.