John Cahill, a native of Indiana and a "forty-niner." Cahill and his brothers Hiram, and David crossed the plains to California when he was a teenager, in the usual ox train, and exposed to all the dangers and privations of the time; and after mining a while in the northern part of the state, he took to stock-raising. On a trip back to Missouri in 1868 he was married, at St. Louis, to Miss Dora Spratt, a native of that state, and by way of Panama they came to their California ranches, finally establishing a residence in what was then a part of Fresno county, but now belonging to Kings. As a cattleman John Cahill became quite successful, driving his herds to San Jose and San Francisco markets. About 1872, he removed his head_quarters and residence to Monterey county, ten miles east of Parkfield, where he conducted a cattle business until his demise, which occurred in Jan 1891, when he was fifty-six years old. He was an early member of the Masonic lodge in San Jose.
John Cahill, a native of Indiana and a "forty-niner." Cahill and his brothers Hiram, and David crossed the plains to California when he was a teenager, in the usual ox train, and exposed to all the dangers and privations of the time; and after mining a while in the northern part of the state, he took to stock-raising. On a trip back to Missouri in 1868 he was married, at St. Louis, to Miss Dora Spratt, a native of that state, and by way of Panama they came to their California ranches, finally establishing a residence in what was then a part of Fresno county, but now belonging to Kings. As a cattleman John Cahill became quite successful, driving his herds to San Jose and San Francisco markets. About 1872, he removed his head_quarters and residence to Monterey county, ten miles east of Parkfield, where he conducted a cattle business until his demise, which occurred in Jan 1891, when he was fifty-six years old. He was an early member of the Masonic lodge in San Jose.
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