San Luis Obispo County Biographies

MICHAEL HARROLD

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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MICHAEL HARROLD, a dairyman near Cayucos, was born in Ireland, in October, 1828. 
July 4, 1849, he alighted upon American soil, the land of opportunity. For the first 
twelve years he lived in New York city and vicinity. In 1861 he arrived in Marin County, 
California, where he worked for wages for a period of live years. Then he took a 
homestead in Sonoma County. Later he followed dairying on rented property. After 
residing in that county two years he came to Cayucos and vicinity, where he entered 
extensively into the dairying business. In 1883 he located upon his present ranch of 
320 acres, on Old Creek live miles from Cayucos, where he was engaged chiefly in 
dairying with fair profit. 

He was married in 1866, to Miss Margaret Phillips, and has seven children: Elizabeth 
Dorcas, John, Mary, Victoria Lee, Margaret, Michael Dennis and Susan Fidelia. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.