Colusa County Biographies

 Peter Francis Dolan

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            Peter Francis Dolan is a native of Ireland, born in August, 1839, 
and passed his early days on his father�s farm.  He landed in the United States 
at Boston, on June 6, 1853.  He here served an apprenticeship of one year at the 
shoemaking trade and was next employed for four years in a manufacturing 
establishment at Lynn, Massachusetts.  He had now served nearly six years in 
industrious pursuits, and, having laid by the little store of his earnings, he 
sought a younger and less crowded field for his ambitions.  In the fall of 1859 
he started for California via Panama, arriving in San Francisco October 16 of 
the same year.  On his arrival he engaged in farming in Sacramento County, with 
which he occupied himself for nearly three years.  In February, 1862, he worked 
in the mines for a brief period and afterwards resided for a few months in San 
Francisco.
            In 1867 he came to Colusa County, purchasing, in company with the 
late Captain Dwyer, his present home of six hundred and twenty-three acres, 
located two miles south of Colusa, on the west bank of the Sacramento River.
            Mr. Dolan was married, February 20, 1878, to Miss Sullivan at 
Vallejo, by whom he had four sons and two girls.  Mr. Dolan takes a lively 
interest in fruit-growing, in which industry he is among the pioneers of the 
county.  In grain-raising and dairying he devotes most of his time and is 
eminently successful therein.  His home is one of comfort and ease and Mr. Dolan 
is highly respected by his neighbors.  Mr. Dolan is a firm adherent of the 
Democratic party and was chosen a delegate in the summer of 1890 to the State 
Democratic Convention, which met at San Jose.
 
�Colusa County� � by Justus H. Rogers � Orland, CA � 1891 � pp 462-463