Contra Costa-Sacramento-San Mateo County CA Archives Biographies.....McHarry, James 1830 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

JAMES McHARRY.—The subject of this narrative, a portrait of whom will be found
in this work, was born in County Antrim, Ireland, in the year 1830, and resided
there until the age of seven, when he removed to County Down. In 1850 he
emigrated to the United States, and first settled in Hamilton county, Ohio,
where he engaged in gardening and farming. At the end of a year he moved to St.
Louis, Missouri, and there embarked in the raising of vegetables, and
horticulture, a business he followed until starting for California. On March 10,
1853, Mr. McHarry commenced the arduous undertaking of crossing the plains to
the Pacific Coast. Having entered the State by Canon Pass, he proceeded to
Sacramento, at which place he arrived August 10th of the same year. Like nearly
all who accomplished the difficult journey, our subject immediately made for the
mines; but instead of prosecuting the search for gold in the bosom of mother
earth, he proceeded to San Mateo county and commenced laying out a vineyard and
orchard near Crystal Springs. There he remained until moving to Contra Costa
county in 1856. Mr. McHarry owns a fine farm of five hundred acres, where he is
engaged in fai'ming, as well as stock and fruit raising. Married August 11,
1854, Ann McClelland, a native of County Antrim, and has: James, Daniel, Sarah,
Mary, John, Isaac, and Hattie.

Additional Comments:
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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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