J.J. O'Farrell
J.J. O’Farrel, purser on the Valencia who did not survive. The San Francisco Call reported on January 24th, “J.J. O’Farrell, the purser, is one of the best known men in this city and on the coast. He is a son of Jasper O’Farrell, a pioneer, after whom O’Farrell Street was named. The father was a civil engineer and laid out most of the streets in the Western Addition. The purser is 48 years of age and has a wife and four children living at 624 Turk Street. He was the senior member of the real estate firm of O’Farrell & Lang that dissolved in 1896. FIRST RUN ON VALENCIA. After the dissolution of the firm he obtained the position of claims agent of the Pacific Coast Steamship company and was later made purser on the Puebla. He laid off for a trip and then went out as purser on the Valencia. He has many friends in Sonoma County. Mrs. O’Farrell was prostrated with grief last night. She believed he had succumbed.” Purser J.J. O’Farrell’s body was never found.