Solano County Biographies

WILLIAM DONELL

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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was born in Ireland, July 2, 1834, where he received his education and lived 
until about eighteen years old, when he emigrated to Pennsylvania, where he 
worked on a farm and in Linsey�s Rolling Mills for about eighteen months, when 
he went to Iowa, where he followed farming for about six years.  April 28, 1862, 
he started, in company with eight other men, for Carson City, Nevada, but on 
their way they changed their minds and went to Idaho, arrived at Elk City, 
Idaho, in July.  After mining there for about three months, he went to Portland, 
Oregon; from there he went to Port Gamble, Washington Territory, where he 
remained until April, 1863, when he came to California and worked in Yuba county 
on a farm for a short time, and then came to this county in May, 1863.  He 
worked at different places in Suisun valley and Montezuma hills until 1874, when 
he settled on the farm where he now lives, consisting of 320 acres, and located 
about two miles north-west from Bird�s Landing.  Mr. Donell married, September 
19, 1872, Miss Addie E. Galbrieth, daughter of James Galbrieth.  William H., 
Addie H., Ettie S. and Ida M., are their children.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 487