Colusa County Biographies

Peter R. Garnett

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            Peter R. Garnett is a native of Ralls County, Missouri, born in the 
year 1841.  His father was a farmer and stock-raiser, and young Garnett was 
brought up to the same pursuit.  In 1868 he left his Missouri home for 
California, going by way of New York and Panama to San Francisco.  He engaged in 
stock-raising in Solano County, in 1869, and continued there till 1873, when he 
came to Colusa County and began grain farming on his place three miles southeast 
of Willows, where he owns two thousand two hundred and fifty acres of superior 
land.  He leases, besides, one thousand three hundred and fifty acres, all of 
which is cultivated.
            Mr. Garnett is married and has a family of three children.  He is a 
well-informed and useful citizen, and is Chairman of the Democratic County 
Central Committee.
 
�Colusa County� � by Justus H. Rogers � Orland, CA � 1891 � pp 454