From HISTORY OF NAPA AND LAKE COUNTIES—NAPA  p. 434

CONN, CONNELLEY.  The subject of this sketch, whose portrait will be found in this work, was 
born in County Londonderry, Ireland, June 18, 1832.  He came from Liverpool, England, to America, 
leaving the former place April 28, 1852, and arriving at New Orleans June 20th, of that year.

He proceeded to Illinois, where he engaged with an uncle in the cattle business, and remained 
there upwards of two years.  Thence he went to Philadelphia, where he made arrangements to 
proceed to California to join an uncle, who then lived in Conn Valley, Napa County, and who 
was a pioneer of the valley, and from whom it was named.  His uncle had written to his friends 
but once in may years.  After arriving in Conn Valley in 1855, he soon proceeded to the mines 
with a small party from Napa County.  He engaged in mining with varied success until 1856, 
when he returned to Napa County, and has since resided in Conn Valley, being engaged in 
farming and stock-raising.

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