Colusa County Biographies

JOHN F. KEERAN

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            This gentleman is a native of the State of Tennessee, born July 20, 
1831.  He was raised on his father�s farm, where he was early inured to labor, 
and the duty of self-help, receiving during a portion of the year an opportunity 
for education in the common schools of his locality.  He removed with his 
parents in 1839 to Cass County, Missouri, and passed the next ten years in doing 
farm work.  In May, 1849, he set out for California by the overland route, and 
on arriving in the State, followed the life of a miner, with its ups and downs 
and varying fortunes, but on the whole, with little success, till 1860.  In that 
year he went to Vacaville, Solano County, and remained there some time.  He came 
to Colusa County in 1876, locating on his present place, three miles from 
Willows, where he cultivates six hundred and forty acres of land.
            His sound judgment and business qualifications have so commended him 
to the people of the community that in 1874 he was chosen Supervisor for the 
Fourth District, and afterwards twice re-elected, and which position he still 
holds.  During his incumbency of this office he has served two years as chairman 
of the Board.
            Mr. Keeran was married, at Vacaville, in November, 1863, to Miss 
Rachel Stark, by whom he has five children, three sons and two daughters.
 
�Colusa County� � by Justus H. Rogers � Orland, CA � 1891 � pp 427-428