Sierra County Biographies

Judge Ferdinand J. McCann 

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


 
was a resident of Kentucky before coming to California, and was of Irish and 
Spanish descent. He has always been considered a very accomplished gentleman, 
and an able and popular jurist. He was educated in Maryland, came to California 
in 1850, practiced law a few months in Marysville, and in 1851 came to 
Downieville. At the first election, June 14, 1852, he was elected county judge, 
holding the office for two years, when he resigned, and went back to Kentucky. 
There he married into a distinguished family, and again came to California. From 
1871 to 1873 he was in partnership, at Marysville, with Judge Peter Van Clief. 
From there he went to Santa Cruz, where he still resides. Judge McCann has 
always been a strong democrat in politics. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 429