A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . sparents were born, lived and died, passing awayat a ripe old age. He and a brother who diedin San Francisco were the only members of theparental household to immigrate to the UnitedStates. Leaving home at the age of eighteen yearsto seek his fortune in a new country, DonlickAIcGrath came to New York City, and the en-suing three years was employed as a foundrv-man, working either in that city or in Brook-lyn. In 1858 he made an entire chan
A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . sparents were born, lived and died, passing awayat a ripe old age. He and a brother who diedin San Francisco were the only members of theparental household to immigrate to the UnitedStates. Leaving home at the age of eighteen yearsto seek his fortune in a new country, DonlickAIcGrath came to New York City, and the en-suing three years was employed as a foundrv-man, working either in that city or in Brook-lyn. In 1858 he made an entire change of resi-dence and occupation. Coming to Alamedacounty, Cal., he worked as a ranchman in Liver-more for two years, and having accumulatedsome monev he invested it wisely, buying onethousand head of sheep, and for four years car-ried on a substantial business as a breeder andraiser of sheep. Selling his-stock at an advant-ageous price, he settled in the Santa Clara val-lev, becoming a pioneer of Oxnard, and fromthat dav until this he has been intimately asso-ciated with its agricultural, industrial and socialgrowth and prosperity. A man of unbounded. ^^ ^,/f^^^A^ HISTORICAL AXD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 959 enei-r;\- and enterprise, he has been very fortun-ate in all of his undertakings, exercising goodjudgment and wise forethought in his labors andinvestments, and becoming one of the largestlandholders of this section. He owns one ranchof six hundred and forty acres, another of threehundred and twent}- acres, and very recently hegave to one of his sons a valuable farm. In thecare and management of his agricultural inter-ests Mr. McGrath receives satisfactory results,raising large quantities of hay and beans, thelatter averaging twenty sacks to the acre, whichis a large and profitable crop. In 1856 Mr. McGrath married Bridget Don-Ian, a native of Ireland, and of their union tenchildren have been born, namely: Alary M.,wife of Bernard Hawley, of Oakland; Alaggie:Millie, wife of Jame
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