Plumas-Sierra-Yuba County CA Archives Biographies.....Connolly, Patrick 1839 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 11, 2006, 12:53 am Author: Fariss & Smith (1882) PATRICK CONNOLLY.—He was born in county Kildare, Ireland., in 1839; came to the United States in 1856, and lived a year and a half in Orange county, New York. He then migrated to Kane county, Illinois, and spent eighteen months in that locality. In 1859 he came overland to California; stopping at Marysville, where he worked for the California Stage Company six months; and from that time until coming to Sierra valley was engaged along the Dutch Flat and Henness Pass road, working for the same company. Mr. Connolly removed to Sierra valley in 1869, and bought a ranch of 480 acres two and one-half miles north-west of Loyalton, on which he has since lived. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties San Francisco: Fariss & Smith (1882) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/plumas/bios/connolly326nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cafiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb