Butte County Biographies

Smith H. Hurles

Transcribed by:  Betty Wilson

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Smith H. Hurles, proprietor of the Boston ranch and hotel, is of Irish ancestry, 
and was born in the town of Enniskillen, May 1, 1827.  He was educated in 
Portora Royal College, Ireland; and when twenty years of age came to the United 
States and located in Boston, where he remained for seven years.  He was there 
married to Miss Hattie Herring, a native of Portland, Maine, and shortly after 
they came to California.  In 1857, Mr. Hurles settled on the Boston ranch, and 
opened a public house, which has, from that time to the present, sustained its 
high reputation of treating guests to the best of everything.  
 
History of Butte County, California: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present 
Time - Vol. II -  Harry L. Wells & W. L. Chambers - 547 Clay Street, San 
Francisco, Cal., 1882.