Solano County Biography
Robert McDermott
Robert McDermott - born in Ireland in 1841, and came to America in 1842 with his parents, who settled in Lower Canada, where they resided till 1848, when they moved to Upper Canada. In 1859 he crossed to the United States, and took up his residence in McComb county, Michigan, remaining there till 1860. In April of this year he enlisted in Co. A., Ninth U. S. Infantry, and was stationed in the Detroit Recruiting district for some time, when he went to the North Pass of the Rocky mountains, where he got his discharge under the Minor's Act. He remained in that section of the country till the fall of 1863, when he again enlisted in the First Oregon Infantry, and served till the end of the war. Arrived in Vallejo in June, 1867, and purchased the one-half interest of F. O'Grady, in the Empire Soda Works. Married April 19,1869, Catharine Monaghan, a native of Ireland.
History of Solano County, California
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Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, February 2008
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