Lyon County
Charles H. Barrett
Biography
(Transcribed by Andaleen Whitney)
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Nevada Genealogy Trails Lyon County Charles H. Barrett Biography (Transcribed by Andaleen Whitney) |
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CHARLES HARRY BARRETT, a prominent farmer of Mason valley, is a native of California, having been born December 7, 1859. A. J. Barrett, his father, was born in Maine in 1821, and was a California pioneer of 1851. He placer-mined on the American river and at other diggings, and finally established a cooper shop in Sacramento. In 1861 he came to Lake Tahoe and built the first sawmill. His next removal was made to Clear creek, Ormsby county, where he took up land; then went to Dayton, where he conducted a truck ranch of forty acres, and finally in 1879 he settled in Mason valley, where he became the owner of fourteen hundred acres of land, improved it and resided upon it, making it one of the best ranches in the county.
Before going to California A. J. Barrett married Olive E. Day, a native of Maine, and after he had been four years in California he sent for her and their little son. She took passage on the Central America and was fortunate in her choice of time, for the next trip this same ship sunk and seven hundred passengers drowned. Other children were added to the family on the Pacific coast, as follows: G. May, now Mrs. Charles Malett, of Oregon; Isabella became a successful teacher and died aged twenty-nine years, highly esteemed by all who knew her; Lettie is now the wife of Hugh Gregg and resides in California. A. J. Barrett died February 6. 1903. He had been a life-long Republican, and was a man of exalted character, whose friends were numerous.
The son born in California, Charles Henry Barrett, now resides with his mother on the old homestead of four hundred and twenty acres. In politics he is, like his father, a Republican. His good mother is a Methodist and a very highly esteemed lady. The family is regarded as very representative of the pioneers who have made Nevada what it is to-day, and rendered possible the prosperity of the Pacific coast.
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