Central California Biographies

A memorial and biographical history of the coast counties of Central California : illustrated : containing 
a history of this important section of the Pacific coast from the earliest period of its discovery to the 
present time, together with glimpses of its auspicious future, illustrations and full-page portraits of 
some of its eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers, and prominent citizens of 
to-day (1893)

Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Publishing Company
Author: Barrows, Henry D; Ingersoll, Luther A

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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J. M. KELEHER.� This gentleman has been a resident of California since o 1853, although 
he is a native of Cork county, Ireland, where he was born December 14, 1880. At the age 
of twenty he emigrated to America, landing in New York, in 1850. From this city he went 
to Boston, where he remained three years and then sailed from the latter city to California, 
in 1853, via Isthmus of Panama. After living in this State until 1868, he took up his residence 
in the Salinas valley, where he engaged in farming on the Santa Rita ranch. Here he purchased 
200 acres of Don Manuel Soto, lived on it and cultivated it until 1888, when he sold the same 
and located at Salinas. 

Mr. Keleher has been married twice, the first time to Julia Coughlin, by whom he had 
one son, Ernest, now deceased. Mrs. Keleher died, and her husband married in 1880 Miss 
Rose Kern, of San Jose. They have one daughter, Rose. This family reside in a very 
pleasant home of twenty-eight acres of well improved land adjoining the city of Salinas, 
where they dispense hospitality to their many friends.