History of Nevada; . a Legislature, and wasone of the parties to procure the passage of the billthat resulted in giving Lander Count3- a railroad, ofwhich he is a director and stockholder. In politicshe is a Republican. His rise in the world to hispresent high ])osilion among his fellow-men, and theaccumulation of his estates, is wholly duo to his ownenergy and perseverance, having received no pecuni-ary assistance from any one. He was marriedMarch 9, lS(i3, to Miss E. H. Wells, of San Fran-cisco, California. HON. M. ,1. , Was born at Mount Hoi)e, near Rockaway, MorrisCounty, Now Jerse
History of Nevada; . a Legislature, and wasone of the parties to procure the passage of the billthat resulted in giving Lander Count3- a railroad, ofwhich he is a director and stockholder. In politicshe is a Republican. His rise in the world to hispresent high ])osilion among his fellow-men, and theaccumulation of his estates, is wholly duo to his ownenergy and perseverance, having received no pecuni-ary assistance from any one. He was marriedMarch 9, lS(i3, to Miss E. H. Wells, of San Fran-cisco, California. HON. M. ,1. , Was born at Mount Hoi)e, near Rockaway, MorrisCounty, Now Jersey, March 29, 1832. He is of Irishjiarcnlago, his parents coming from the •EmeraldIslo when they wore very young, his father at the ageof eighteen and his mother when only six years of Farrell was educated in bis native State andsailed from Now York for California on the oldsteamer Georgia, April 5, 1853. Tho steamer waswrecked on her next trip. On the fifth of May, 1853, 470 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF Mr. Farrell arrived in San Kraneinco, and immedi-ately went to tiic mincH in Nevada City, where liefound a friend with whom ho engaged in mining inMyors Ravine, about four miles north of NevadaCitj. His next anchorage was at Jones Bar, on theSouth Yuba Kiver, where lie bought a Hume that he wandered through Northern Caliibr-fornia, jjrincipally in Nevada, Sierra and PlumasCounties, as a miner, school-teacher, , and in fact, as ho saj-s, turning his hand toalmost anything, until in 1863, ho came to Nevadaduring the Reese River excitement, and located atwhat is now Austin, in Lander County, arriving thereabout tho fifteenth of April. The summers of 1863and 18()4 he spent in prospecting, and the winters inthe town. In tho summer of ISli.) he took charge ofa lumber-yard, as agent for Ilendrick & the same season he furnished tools and pro-visions for his brother and another man to prospect,and they discovered and located
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