Contra Costa-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Kearny, Michael 1820 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

MICHAEL KEARNY.—Born in County Antrim, Ireland, January, 1820. On attaining the
age of twenty-seven years, he emigrated to the United States, and for the first
two years resided in New York City. After passing two more years at Newburg, he
had an engagement for a like period in the West Point foundry, at the expiration
of which he returned to New York, and there remained until 1854. In that year he
sailed for California, via Chagres river, arriving in San Francisco in the month
of May. He now proceeded to the southern mines for a short time, but returning
to the Bay City, worked as a laborer during one Summer. He next tried the mines
near Downieville, Sierra county, until May, 1857, when he located in Contra
Costa, near the county line, about five miles from San Pablo; at the end of two
years he leased the farm where Mr. Jones now resides, and dwelt there for six
years, and finally, in 1865, purchased his present property, comprising one
hundred and ten acres of up-land, and one hundred and four acres of tule, on
which he has made many improvements. Married in New York, September 6, 1851,
Mary McPike, a native of Londonderry, Ireland, and has four surviving children:
Bridget (now Mrs. O'Neil), Edward, Catherine (now Mrs. Fergusson), and Sarah.

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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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