Solano County Biographies

ROBERT SHEEHY

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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grain merchant, was born in the county of Kerry, Ireland, in 1821, and came to 
America early in 1849. The spring of the following year found him struggling in 
the human tide which had set towards California; arriving in Tuolumne County, he 
first engaged in the occupation of mining in May, 1850, but, only remaining 
there four years and a-half, he started for the Eastern States, crossed the 
plains, and purchasing cattle, returned by the same route, bringing his stock 
with him, and once more entered the Golden State in 1855, establishing himself, 
in the Suscol Valley, at that time included in Solano County.  In the year 1858, 
he commenced farming on a large scale, an occupation which he now combines with 
his other business.  Mr. Sheehy is the proprietor of 3,000 acres of land in Napa 
county, a fine estate, which includes large tracts of pasture lands.  In 1869 he 
removed with his family into the city of Vallejo, where he still resides.  Mr. 
Sheehy married in Napa county, on the 8th of January, 1860, Miss Margaret 
Tormey, a native of Ireland, who was born in 1840, by whom he has five sons, 
John P., Augustine L., Robert V., Francis B., and Eugene V. P.; and five 
daughters, Ellen S., Mary A., Josephine, Louisa and Ada M.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 389