Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Sweeney, Jeremiah 1837 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Sweeney, Jeremiah. A native of Ireland, born in 1837, where he was educated, and
resided on a farm until 1855, when he emigrated to Massachusetts. After
remaining here for about six months he took up his residence in Portland, Maine,
where he resided until 1856, when he emigrated to California, via Panama, and
arrived in this county January 1, 1857. Mr. Sweeney owns three hundred and
thirty acres of land, about five miles south of Petaluma, and his principal
business is dairying. He married, November 5, 1856, Miss Mary Holland, a native
of Ireland. By this union they have nine living children: Ellen A., Mary J.,
Edward P., David W., Cornelius P., Annie K., Lizzie, John, and Ettie A.

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Petaluma Township

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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.


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