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Peter was born on January, 1822 in Glasgow, Scotland. He was born of Irish parents. At the age of nine he was working in a Glasgow factory. When he was eleven his parents emigrated to the United States and settled in Matteawan, New York. About 1837 his parents moved to Paterson, New Jersey.
His early life seems to have been one of hardship and little schooling.
About 1837 in Paterson, New Jersey Peter was apprenticed to learn the craft of machinist and millwright.
Upon returning to New York, in 1845, Peter found employment on the construction of a gunboat for the Peruvian government. He accompanied the completed vessel to Peru as assistant engineer, and remained in that country until 1849, when he embarked for the goldfields of California.
Although detained for some months at Tobago with Isthmus fever, he eventually reached San Francisco on the steamship Oregon. En route, the vessel s machinery broke down, but Donahue was able to repair it, and for this service the owners rewarded him with $1, 000 and urged him to remain in their employ.
At this time the lure of the goldfields still drew him, but after six months in the mines he was back in San Francisco where his two brothers had arrived. ogether they opened a crude blacksmith and boiler-making shop at Montgomery St. , near Jackson, the first iron works and machine-shop in California.
Later this expanded into the great Union Iron Works, named for the works at Paterson, New Jersey, where Peter had learned his trade as machinist.
The Donahue works, first housed in tents, soon moved to what was then called Happy Valley, between Mission, First, and Fremont Saints. For a furnace they utilized the smokestack of a dismantled steamer, and for a blast used a pair of old-fashioned bellows.
Here were made the first castings in the state of California.
repairing of engines, the construction of quartz mills, mining machinery, mining pumps, and the erection of gas-works.
In 1852 and 1856 Michael and James sold their interests to Peter, who carried on the business in his own name for a time, erecting a large brick building on the site of the roofless shop of 1849.
In 1860 he obtained a contract for building a steamer for the United States government, the Saginaw, and in 1863 turned out the monitor Comanche. These were the first government vessels produced on the Pacific Coast.
By 1868 Donahue had become so involved in other important enterprises that he was unable to exercise personal supervision over the mechanical branch of the business. He therefore formed a new partnership with H. J. Booth and C. S. Higgins, under the firm name of Donahue, Booth & Company. Two years later he sold his interest to H. J. Booth & Company.
He organized (1861) the Omnibus Street Railway, the first street-car line in San Francisco, and for many years was president of the company.
In 1860 he was made treasurer of the San Francisco & San Jose Railroad, and, with an associate, soon acquired two-thirds of the stock.
In November 1870 they sold the road to the Central Pacific for $3, 250, 000.
In 1870 he acquired a controling interest in the San Francisco & Humboldt Railroad, out of which he created the San Francisco & North Pacific Railroad and its branches and extensions lying in Marin, Sonoma, and Mendocino counties.
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Although active in support of the Union cause at the opening of the Civil War and interested in civic affairs throughout his life, Donahue would never accept public office.
By his industry and business thrift Donahue accumulated great wealth.
A contemporary described him as "one of the most charitable of givers, kindest of benefactors, and most generous of friends. ”
Donahue was twice married: his first wife was Mary Jane Maguire, whom he married in 1852 and by whom he had four children. In 1864 he married Annie Downey, sister of Gov. J. G. Downey, who survived her husband eleven years.
