Whose calm and intellectual face is very correctly portrayed by the above average engraving, was born in the town of Scotstown, County of Monaghan, Ireland, on the ninth day of February, 1809.  His father's name was also Patrick Tierney, and as all know who have an acquaintance with the son, he never disgraced the name he bears.

Patrick Tierney, the subject of this sketch, arrived in the United States in 1840, came to California in May, 1852, and Siskiyou county in November of that year, since which time he has made Scott valley in this county his home.  Whilst he has never pushed himself forward in public life--owning as his friends think to an over-sensitiveness or diffidence of his own mental worth--he has been held, among those who have enjoyed his acquaintance, a man of fine order of talent, of considerable private culture, and the sternest uncompromising integrity.  We place his likeness in our history, as he is one of the pioneers of the county.  A man of marked character, one whose life has been an example that the rising generation could profitably emulate.  Now seventy-two years old he is spending his remaining days in the family of a friend--he having no family of his own, that being the only social duty of which he has been known to be remiss--living upon the savings of a laborious  California miner's life, and enjoying the respect and confidence of all his neighbors.

The above picture and text are from: History of Siskiyou County, Harry L. Wells, D. J. Stewart & Co., 1881; pg. 116B

Patrick Tierney is buried in Etna Cemetery

Copyright February 16, 2002

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