Tuolumne County Biographies

JOHN FERRAL

Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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John Ferral, father of Judge Robert Ferral, located in Sonora in 1854, and for a 
time kept the old �Young America� theater. He was an active, energetic man, an 
able writer, and a ready and powerful public speaker. Although never an 
office-holder, Mr. Ferral took a promi�nent part in many political campaigns, 
and during the Know-Nothing excitement met in hot discussion several of the 
ablest representatives of the American party. Mr. Ferral, senior, died in San 
Francisco, July 9, 1882, at the advanced age of 82 years. During the last ten 
years of his life he was an invalid.

�A History of Tuolumne Co, CA� B.F. Alley, 1882.  Appendix pg. 46.