Alameda County Biographies

RICHARD BARRON

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	The subject of this sketch, whose portrait will be found in this work, is the son of 
Edmund and Ellen (Helin) Barron, and was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, June 22, 1824.  He 
accompanied his parents in 1834 on their emigrating to the United States, and with them 
settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where our subject resided until coming to the Pacific Coast in 
search of health.  Starting from St. Joseph, Missouri, on May 1, 1850, with wagon and horses, 
he made Hangtown, now called Placerville, in ninety days, where, selling his animals, he 
purchased a mining outfit and tried his luck in Hangtown Canon.  Two or three days of gold-
seeking were enough for him.  He at once proceeded to San Francisco and commenced draying, 
which following, at the end of five years he abandoned and betook himself to Alameda County 
in 1855, where he located and began farming on his present estate, comprising seventy-five 
acres of arable land and fifteen hundred of marsh-land.  Is also in the business of shipping 
of freight and storage of grain and hay, and manufacturing of salt, etc.  Married August 5, 
1852, Miss Mary Foley, a native of Ireland, and has five surviving children, viz.:  Ellen, now 
Mrs. J. Scribner; Katie, now Mrs. T. Stratton; Emma, now Mrs. H. C. Martin; Richard, and James.

History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 843-844