Solano County Biographies

JAMES CONNELLY

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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born March 15, 1828, in county Roscommon, Ireland.  At the age of twenty-two he 
emigrated to the United States, and made his home in Boston for about four 
years, where he carried on a farm.  In June, 1855, he started for California, 
making the trip by water, and on arrival settled in Napa county and commenced 
farming.  On November 2, 1856, he married Miss Margaret Fleming, of San 
Francisco, who was born in county Waterford, Ireland, March 24, 1834, and at 
once located in Pleasant valley, where he purchased a tract of land, which he 
disposed of after residing on it over six years.  He next purchased fifty-six 
and one-quarter acres in the Gibson Canon, about two miles north of Vacaville, 
where he cultivates fruit, etc.  His only living child is Alice F., born July 4, 
1866.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 456