Plumas-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Kirby, Alexander 1821 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

   ALEXANDER KIRBY.—He is a veteran of the Mexican war; was born near Bowling
Green, Warren county, Kentucky, on the thirteenth of March, 1821. His parents
were Samuel and Mary Kirby, who emigrated to Missouri in 1830. On the fourth of
June, 1846, Alexander volunteered for the Mexican war at Fort Leavenworth, and
while in the service passed through the engagements of Brasceto, Saltello, Buena
Vista, and was with General Wool at Monterey. On the second of May, 1849, he
started from Independence, Missouri, across the plains, and landed at Hangtown
(Placerville) September 13. He was married January 24, 1860, to Miss Harriett J.
Honn, a native of Muskingum county, Ohio. By this union, there have been eleven
children: Mary, Susan (deceased), Louisa, Cora, Henry H., George M., Kate,
Laura, Eva, Annette, and Frances. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kirby belong to long-lived
and large families. In his family were ten children, and in hers twelve. His
grandfather lived to the age of 102, his grandmother to 97, having lived
together for eighty years. Mr. Kirby owns the old Beckwourth ranch in Sierra valley.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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