San Luis Obispo County Biographies

TIMOTHY CAVANAUGH

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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TIMOTHY CAVANAUGH was born in Ireland in 1823, and went to Canada at the 
age of eight years. In 1845 he came to the United States and settled in Illinois. 
It was there he cast his first vote for President, and General Taylor was the man 
who received it. Mr. Cavanaugh remained in Illinois only three years. At the 
expiration of that time, like many others, he caught the gold fever. In 1850 he 
set out for California and at once sought the mines, where he remained, however, 
only six months. He then traveled around prospecting, and finally settled down in 
Santa Clara County, in July, 1852, where for three years he was extensively 
engaged in ranching. During this period Mr. Cavanaugh was married, and eleven 
children is the result of this union, ten of whom are now living. In 1883 Mr. 
Cavanaugh came to San Luis Obispo County, and, with the assistance of his sons, 
is operating a fine ranch of 1,000 acres, near the Santa Margarita station on the 
Southern Pacific Railroad. 

Mr. and Mrs. Cavanaugh are living in a very pleasant cottage near the railroad, he 
eleventh house he has constructed during his life-time. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.