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Robert McGarvey

Independent

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-07-1875 Independent SD-27 0 Win
Website: www.findagrave.com/memorial/29002976/robert-mcgarvey
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: March 1, 1825 in Cincinnati, Ohio
Married: Charlotte L. Davis (m. 1854)
Children: Belle, Mollie, Sallie, Vic, Stephen S. and Robert
Military Service: ARMY (Mexican War)
Died: October 17, 1907 in Ukiah, CA

1849: Chair, Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors
1870s-1880s: Superior Judge, Mendocino County

 

  • Be Fruitful and Multiple: McGarvey had six children.

 

Source: "Pen Portraits" Compiled by R.R. Parkinson, Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton as part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
Source: Directory of the California Legislature. Twenty-First Session, 1875-6 by William Halley (1876)
Source: A History of Tuolumne County California published by B. F. Alley (1882; Reprinted in 1973)