Monterey County CA Archives Biographies.....Hart, Patrick 1830 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

PATRICK HART, one of the well-known farmers and respected citizens of Priest
Valley, Monterey county, California, is a native of the Emerald Isle, born in
1830. At the age of twenty he came to America, landing in Quebec, where he
remained two years. He subsequently spent some time in Wisconsin, engaged in
lumbering, and in 1859, came to California. Until 1861 he lived in the northern
counties of the State, and at that time located on his present farm in Priest
Valley. He raised the first crop of wheat ever raised in this valley, and
threshed it in the old-fashioned way, tramping it out with horses.

  Mr. Hart was married in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to Miss Margaret Burns, a native
of Tipperary county, Ireland, They have live children, viz.: Mary, wife of John
Clayton; Ella, wife of Leroy Akers; Maggie; Kate, wife of William Wescott; and
Thomas.


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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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