Plumas County Biographies

Patrick Connolly

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

 
He was born in county Kildare, Ireland, in 1839; came to the United States in 
1856, and lived a year and a half in Orange county, New York. He then migrated 
to Kane county, Illinois, and spent eighteen months in that locality. In 1859 he 
came overland to California, stopping at Marysville, where he worked for the 
California Stage Company six months; and from that time until coming to Sierra 
valley was engaged along the Dutch Flat and Henness Pass road, working for the 
same company. Mr. Connolly removed to Sierra valley in 1869, and bought a ranch 
of 480 acres two and one-hale miles north-west of Loyalton, on which he has 
since lived.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 269