Danny Irby

Looking for literary agent for historical fiction work set in the 19th century about a man and his family through three generations. The main character is being interviewed at the end of his life at a restaurant in 1890 San Francisco by a local reporter who is writing a series of articles to promote hard work among the areas youth. In our main character, the reporter finds an interesting person who has become successful through hard work and making the most of opportunities as they came along. But, the man brings up his family, all of whom contributed to his success. For example, a grandfather who was the displaced son of an English nobleman and had to work for a living after being thrown out of the family manse, an uncle who established a trading business in the American West after working for J. J. Astor's Pacific Fur Company in the Northwest, and a mother whose teaching work with Rhode Island Indians and later experience as a Governess on a western Virginia plantation made his life well rounded by the shared experiences of his family members. As relates his own experiences of living in two different areas of the country, New England and the South, serving in the Civil War on the Union side, and later taking time off from the Army to look for gold stolen over 20 years before by his Uncle, he turns out to be an interesting person in his own right.