Richard Molony (carriage maker)
Richard Molony (1839–1938) was a wheelwright, a blacksmith, and a manufacturer of carriages in 19th-century Los Angeles, California, where he was a member of the Common Council, the legislative branch of the city.During the Civil War, he voyaged to San Francisco in 1862 via the Isthmus of Panama, first settling in Bloomfield in Sonoma County.He died at the age of 99 on April 20, 1938, in the Virgil Avenue home several weeks after he fell and broke his hip.[8] Molony, a wheelwright and blacksmith, built wagons and carriages in San Francisco until 1872, when he moved to Los Angeles and established his own business in the same line, on Aliso Street."[7] A "progressive Democrat,"[1][9] Molony was elected to represent the 2nd ward on the Los Angeles Common Council in 1879 and served two years.