Yolo County Biographies


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ANDREW McCLORY
 
a farmer of Putah Creek, Yolo County, was born February 14, 1821, in Patterson, 
New Jersey, a son of James and Helen (McGee) McClory, natives of Ireland; the 
father settled in that State in 1800.  At the age of twelve years young McClory 
went to New York City and began the study of art, under the instructions of 
Henry Inman, and continued there three years, and then one year more under 
William Page, being in the academy three or four years.  In 1838 he started West 
through Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsburg, where he followed painting 
until 1842.  He then went to St. Louis and to Independence, Kansas, Santa Fe, 
and in the winter of 1843 left Chihuahua and New Mexico for the south fork of 
the Platte, near where Denver city is now located; in 1844 he returned to 
Missouri, and in six months went to New Orleans, and then into the State of 
Mississippi; and, being in Pittsburg in 1846, when the Mexican war broke out, in 
1847 he enlisted and was appointed as First Lieutenant of Company H, attached to 
the District of Columbia and Maryland Regiment, and held the position of 
Provost-Marshal of the city and department of Jalapa until the close of that 
contest; he was discharged at Pittsburg.  In 1849 he came by way of Missouri 
overland to California, by wagon, arriving at Sacramento.  He engaged in gold 
digging until 1852, when he settled on a ranch on Putah Creek, and resided there 
five years; then he moved upon land which he now owns one mile north, and which 
comprises at present 445 acres, fertile and in good condition.
            He was married in Sacramento November 19, 1865, to Miss Lydia 
Chillson, who was born December 25, 1830, in Mississippi, and they have one son, 
Andrew R., who was born November 15, 1869.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler