Santa Cruz County Biographies

WILLIAM McELROY

Submitted by Kathy Sedler

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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        This gentleman, who is a member of the Santa Cruz County Pioneer 
Association was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania, January 3, 1816. He was 
reared on a farm, and on May 26, 1849, started for California, overland, 
arriving first in Los Angeles, and in San Francisco December 6 of the same year. 
His trip across the plains was an eventful one, as he was sick with mountain 
fever at Salt Lake, and was attacked by Indians a number of times, but finally 
arrived in this State without losing his scalp.
        He mined near Marysville, and a year later engaged in farming and stock 
raising. In 1885 he left Sonoma County for Santa Cruz, and has since resided in 
this county.
        He was married, in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1865, to Mrs. Eliza M. Day, 
who died May 27, 1887.
 
HISTORY OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.-  E. S. Harrison, 
Pacific Press Publ. Co., San Francisco, 1891