Central California Biographies

A memorial and biographical history of the coast counties of Central California : illustrated : containing 
a history of this important section of the Pacific coast from the earliest period of its discovery to the 
present time, together with glimpses of its auspicious future, illustrations and full-page portraits of 
some of its eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers, and prominent citizens of 
to-day (1893)

Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Publishing Company
Author: Barrows, Henry D; Ingersoll, Luther A

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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

 


PATRICK CULLEN, a prosperous farmer and respected citizen of the Paicines valley, 
San Benito county, California, is a native of the Emerald Isle. He was born in 1824, 
and at the age of seventeen he came to America. He worked in Albany, New York, 
and afterward in Orleans, county, that State. From there he went to Springfield, 
Illinois, later to Missouri, and in 1854 came as a Government teamster to California. 
He brought with him 400 head of cavalry horses from Missouri, and delivered them 
at Benicia and Fort Tejon. 

Arriving in California, Mr. Cullom (Cullen) turned his attention to mining, and was 
engaged in that business until 1860. That year he began stock-raising in San Benito
county. In 1882 he located on his present place, 480 acres of tilled land, lying in the 
Paicines valley. 

Mr. Cullen is a man of family. He married Miss B. McAndrew, and has two children, 
Hattie and John.