Contra Costa-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Cavanagh, John 1811 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

JOHN CAVANAGH.—The subject of this sketch was born in County Cork, Ireland,
March 15, 1811, where he resided and followed farming until twenty years of age.
He then, with his father, two brothers and five sisters, immigrated to Canada,
where they arrived in the Spring of 1831, and engaged in farming near the town
of Petersburg, there clearing, three hundred acres of heavy timber land and
residing thirty-one years. March 15, 1862, Mr. Cavanagh, accompanied by his wife
and ten children, started for the Golden State, via New York and Panama, landing
in San Francisco, April 17, 1862. On his arrival on this coast he went to Santa
Clara county, where he dwelt until his coming to this county, which occurred in
October of the same year, and purchased a place in the San Ramon valley, where
he lived for four years. He then sold out, and bought his present valuable farm
in Diablo valley, consisting of six hundred and sixteen acres, where he is
engaged in general farming and stock raising. Mr. Cavanagh was thrice married
first in Canada, January 19, 1838, to Miss Catharine Sullivan, a native of
Canada; she died in September, 1843. By this union they had two children,
Margaret (now deceased) and Michael. Married, secondly, in Canada, July 2, 1845,
Miss Mary Callaghan, who died in San Ramon valley, this county, June 24, 1865.
By this union they have eight living children; their names are: Richard, James,
William, Isabella, Mary, Margaret A., John and Johanna T. (twins). Mr. Cavanagh
returned to Canada on a visit to his friends in October, 1872, where he became
acquainted with Rose Ann Murphy; were married in the town of Peterboro, and
returned to California to his ranch in Mount Diablo valley, where he has since
resided.

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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.

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