Marin County Biographies

ANDREW MANNING

Transcribed by Betty Wilson, September, 2004.

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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              This gentleman was born in county Longford, 
Ireland, in the year 1831.  In 1848, he left his native country and came to the 
United States, settling in Baltimore, where he resided for a period of five 
years, and was employed in the gas works at that place, as well as in a foundry. 
 He emigrated to the State via the Isthmus of Panama, and arrived in San 
Francisco during the month of April, 1853.  He married Mary Kehoe on the 28th of 
June, 1855.  She was born in the county Kilkenny, Ireland, on the 25th day of 
December, 1833.  Here he was employed in the San Francisco Gas Works till the 
4th of November, 1856, when he came to Tomales township, Marin county, and 
settled on his present ranch, which now consists of five hundred and forty 
acres.  He has made this place his home excepting two years he resided in 
Oakland.  They have nine children living and their names are, Mary L., Joseph 
J., Stasio A., Bessie J., Teresa F., Maggie J., Andrew, James E., Evaline K.
 
�History of Marin County, California�, Alley, Brown & Co., Publishers, San 
Francisco, 1880