Solano County Biographies

J. H. BARRETT

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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the County Recorder, was born in Morris county, N. Y., June 12, 1836.  His 
parents moved to Lake county Illinois, in 1845, where the subject of this memoir 
was educated in the public schools. In 1853 he emigrated to this State, first 
settling in Downieville, where he was engaged in mining until 1862, when he was 
appointed Internal Revenue Assessor.  October, 1867, he came to Elmira, this 
county, and has maintained a continued residence in that place.  When his 
township was first organized he was elected Justice of the Peace, and has been 
re-elected at the expiration of his office to the present time.  Was appointed 
County Recorder May 6, 1878.  Married Alice E. Bushnell, daughter of George 
Bushnell, a native of Herkimer county, N. Y.  Their only child is Edith May.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp  479