Yolo-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....McClory, Andrew 1821 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

ANDREW McCLORY, a farmer of Putah Creek, Yolo County, was born February 14,
1821, in Patterson, New Jersey, a son of James and Helen (McGee) McClory,
natives of Ireland; the father settled in that State in 1800. At the age of
twelve years young McClory went to New York City and began the study of art,
under the instructions of Henry Inman, and continued there three years, and then
one year more under William Page, being in the academy three or four years. In
1838 he started West through Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsburg, where he
followed painting until 1842. He then went to St. Louis and to Independence,
Kansas, Sante Fe, and in the winter of 1843 left Chihuahua and New Mexico for
the south fork of the Platte, near where Denver city is now located; in 1844 he
returned to Missouri, and in six months went to New Orleans, and then into the
State of Mississippi; and, being in Pittsburg in 1846, when the Mexican war
broke out, in 1847 he enlisted and was appointed as First Lieutenant of Company
H, attached to the District of Columbia and Maryland Regiment, and held the
position of Provost-Marshal of the city and department of Jalapa until the close
of that contest; he was discharged at Pittsburg. In 1849 he came by way of
Missouri overland to California, by wagon, arriving at Sacramento. He engaged in
gold digging until 1852, when he settled on a ranch on Putah Creek, and resided
there five years; then he moved upon land which he now owns one mile north, and
which comprises at present 445 acres, fertile and in good condition.

  He was married in Sacramento November 19, 1865, to Miss Lydia Chillson, who
was born December 25, 1830, in Mississippi, and they have one son, Andrew B.,
who was born November 15, 1869.


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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