Sonoma-San Francisco-Marin County CA Archives Biographies.....McCrea, John W. 1831 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

McCrea, John W. Born in the north of Ireland in the year 1831, and there
received his early education. At the age of seventeen years he paid a
three-years' visit to Scotland, at the end of which he emigrated to America.
After residing for nearly three years in Connecticut Mr. McCrea came to
California, by way of Panama, and arrived at San Francisco, April 2, 1854. Here,
for six months, he was employed in a brick-yard, and afterwards, for a short
time, as a day laborer in Marin county, and at the expiration of which he
proceeded to and settled in Sonoma county. In May, 1872, he left for a visit to
the "Old Country," returning in September, 1875. He now resides in Bodega,
having retired from business. Mr. McCrea, married April 6, 1876, Maggie L.
Menary, a native of Ireland, by whom he has two children, Annie Bella and John
Wesley.

Additional Comments:
Bodega Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by ALLEY, BOWEN & Co.,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

PACIFIC PRESS,
Oakland, Cal. Printers., Stereotypers and Binders.


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