Butte County Biographies

JOHN BARRETT

Submitted by Betty Wilson

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	JOHN BARRETT was born in Lemoil county, Vt., September 19, 1825.  
When 19 years old he began work in a grist-mill at Worcester, Massachusetts, 
where he remained five years.  Leaving Worcester, he followed farming in Vermont 
till 1854, when he came to California, and settled in Butte county.  Mr. Barrett 
has mined almost continuously here ever since.  He commenced work on the Birch 
and Barrett claim, now called the Magalia, in the fall of 1856.  In that year he 
was one to start the first tunnel which was run under Table mountain.  Mr. 
Barrett was married in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1848, to Miss Catherine 
Flanigan, who died in 1854, leaving one child.  He was again united in marriage 
in 1858, at the city of San Francisco, to Miss Mary Shea, by whom he has three 
children.
 
History of Butte County, California: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present 
Time - Vol. II -  Harry L. Wells & W. L. Chambers - 547 Clay Street, San 
Francisco, Cal., 1882.