Yolo-San Joaquin County CA Archives Biographies.....Cannedy, William J. 1828 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

WILLIAM J. CANNEDY, a prominent and prosperous farmer near Winters, Yolo County,
was born in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, February 6, 1828, a son of James and
Charlotta (Ogilvie) Cannedy, natives, also of that State. At the age of twelve
years he went to sea from Boston, and continued thereon until 1850, when he
settled in New Orleans. In 1855 he came by water to California, and the first
six or eight months in this State he was employed upon a ranch near Stockton. He
made his home then in Sacramento until the fall of 1859, when he purchased 160
acres of land in Yolo County, and engaged in husbandry there until 1873, when he
bought 800 acres of land from B. Smith. In 1875 he was burned out, and since
then has increased his possessions to 1,440 acres; he owns 150 acres near
Winters, and 2,500 acres in Putah Canon, and is very extensively engaged in
stock-raising. He also owns eleven houses and fifty-one lots besides the
"Chinatown" of Winters.

  He was married in New Orleans in 1853, to Miss Ellen Claughesey, a native of
Ireland, and they have three adopted children: Mary, Charlotta and William A.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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