Alameda County Biographies

HON. JOHN P. IRISH

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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Editor of the Oakland Times � is a native of Iowa City, Iowa, and was born January 1, 1843, 
son of Captain F. M. Irish, an old sailor who visited San Francisco Bay in 1820, when only 
the old Mission Dolores marked where the metropolis now stands.  Jno. P. was a member of the 
Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth General Assemblies of Iowa and also of the extra session 
which formed and adopted the present code of that State; was a Regent of the State University 
of Iowa; and was a Trustee of the Soldiers� Orphans� Home of that State.  Was candidate for 
Congress in 1868 and 1872, and for Governor in 1877.  Came to California in April, 1882, and 
removed his family to Oakland in September of that year.
 
History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 914