Monterey County CA Archives Biographies.....Barry, Michael 1835 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

MICHAEL BARRY is a well-known farmer of Castroville, who came to California in
April, 1858, from East Abington, Massachusetts. He is a native of county Cork,
Ireland, where he was born, March 25, 1835. His parents both died in 1850, and
he almost immediately set sail for the United States, bringing with him a small
sum of money. His relatives had all preceded him to this country, one of them,
an uncle, Michael Barry, was for seventeen successive years Town Clerk of New
York city. Our subject remained in the East for some time, where he learned and
pursued for seven years the trade of shoe making. Later he learned stove cutlery
and pursued that calling for three years. 

  Upon arrival in San Francisco, he shipped as fireman on the Golden Gate, a
steamship which then plied between that city and the Isthmus of Panama, but
finally, tiring of the sea life, he located at Castroville, in the fall of 1863,
where he now owns a valuable farm, of 350 acres and ranges five herds of stock.

  Mr. Barry was married, March 13, 1858, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Margaret
Hoyes, a native of Ireland, born in county Cork. She has borne him seven living
children, namely: Mary A., now Mrs. Daniel Hurley, of Castroville; Edward H., a
farmer of Gonzales; Annie, now Mrs. William Sterling, of St. Louis, Missouri;
Margaret, Kate, John and William, the last four of whom are at home.

  Mr. Barry is a well-informed man of sterling integrity, a successful farmer, a
prominent Democrat and respected citizen.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.

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