Mendocino County Biographies

Michael Donohoe

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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	Was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, October 23, 1823, where he 
resided till September, 1847, when he immigrated to America. He landed at New 
Orleans and remained there till 1852, when he came, via Panama, to California, 
arriving at San Francisco, February 20th of that year. He went at once to 
Downieville, Sierra county, and began mining, where he remained till 1861, 
meeting with fair success in all his enterprises. During the last-named year, he 
came to Mendocino county, and settled on his present ranch, comprising six 
hundred and forty acres, and is now engaged in general farming and 
stock-raising. April 14, 1858, he married Catherine Donalley, a native of County 
Tyrone, Ireland, born in 1825. Their children are as follows: Alice, born 
February 12, 1859; Mary, born June 5, 1860; Rosanna, born April 25, 1863; 
Elizabeth, born January 15, 1865; Frank, born January 13, 1867; John, born 
December 8, 1868; Katie, born July 16; 1871.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 535, 536