THE VALLEY OF HEART's DELIGHT

Thomas Fitzgerald
Almaden Township, 1888



Born in Canada, February 2, 1839.  In 1853 he came to California, and direct to Santa Clara county, first settling near Gilroy.   Not long after he went to the redwoods near there, where he remained seven years.  Afterwards he located at the Fifteen-mile House, Burnett township and in 1866 returned to Gilroy.  In 1870 he entered upon his residence in Almaden township where he owns eight hundred and eighty-five acres of land, has a dairying business and milks about thirty cows.  Married at Gilroy, in 1872, Mary Ann Cullen, by whom he has three children:  Walter G., born August 30, 1873; John P., born April 18, 1875; Ellen born June 3, 1879.


Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben
History of Santa Clara County, California
San Francisco: Alley, Bowen & Co., 1881, 838 pgs.
page 556

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