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734 PIONEER REGISTER AND INDEX. records of his presence are in Oct.-Nov. 45, when he was at Branciforte, age 20. In 40 he took part in enlisting men south of the bay to cooperate with the Bear iilibusters. v. 137; and in July, being known as captain, raised the U. S. flag at S. Jose", v. 245-G. Later in 40-7 he served in Co. F, Cal. Bat. , en listing at S. Juan in Oct. (v. 358); several times named in the N. Hdv. Diary 40-7; in the list of Cal. claimants (v. 462); in 48-9 a successful miner; mayor of S. Jose"in 51 ; absent in Texas 52-4; later a capitalist of S.F. and S. Jose", where he still lives in 85. His 1st wife, by whom he had 5 children, was, I think, a daughter of Michael Lodge, the Irish pioneer of 22. She obtained a divorce, as did the 2(1 wife; and in 84-5 the amorous old captain had to pay damages in a breach-of-promise suit. F. (Win 0.), 1845, Irish trapper, known as Mountaineer, Big, or Le Gros Fallon, who came fromN. Mex. with a party of which little is known, and in Feb. 45 took part with the Calif, aguinst Micheltorena in the south, iv. 495, 587. In Aug. he was at N. Helv. intending to start soon for the states; early in 40 he found Fremont s men in the S. Joaq. Val. v. 6; in June joined the Bears in the capture of So noma, and his signature appears in the original procl. of June 14th in my possession, v. 110, 114. He served prob. in Co. F, Cal. Bat. (v. 358), and had a Cal. claim of $50 for a mule (v. 402); was a member of the 4th Donner re lief, and his diary, published in the Star, was the foundation of the absurd charges against Keseburg. v. 541-3. He went east with Gen. Kearny as guide. v. 452; and in the S.F. Calif, of Sept. 2, 48, we read that he had started alone from Ft Hall for Cal. , and it was feared he had been killed by Ind. .. Falls (Richard J.), 1846, nat. of N.Y.; sergtCo. C, 1st U.S. dragoons, who served under Kearny at S. Pascual, the S. Gabriel, and the Mesa 46-7. v. 347. He remained in Cal. after his disch., living on aNapa farm till 62, when he went east to serve in the war with distinction and wounds for 3 years, ris ing to the rank of colonel. Returning to Cal. he was in 09 an officer in the custom-house; and in 83-5 a sergt of police in S. F. His daughter, Ivy I. Falls, was appointed postmistress at Vallejo in 69. Famin (Ign.), 1847, doubtful name of an Englishman at N. Helv. Fannier (M.), 1846, doubtful name of the Cal. Bat. (v. 358). Fanning (H.F.), 1847, resid. of Stockton. Tinkham. F. (R.C.), 1846, Co. F, Cal. Bat. (v. 358); enlist at S. Juan, Oct. Farias (Jose" Maria), settler at Los Ang. 15. ii. 350; still there 39-48. F. (Santiago), 1827, Scotchman, bapt. at S. Diego; prob. James McFerion, q.v. Farley (Anderson), 1846, Co. F, Cal. Bat. (v. 358); prob. an overl. immig., cl. for a Napa rancho 52. F. (Geo.), 1847, Co. B, N.Y.Vol. (v. 499); at The Dalles, Or., 82. F., 1846, said by Lancey to have come with Kearny; owner of a S. F. lot 47. F. (John F.), 1847, Co. B, N.Y.Vol. (v. 499); died at Portland, Or., 69. Hist. Or., i. 630. F. (John G.), 1847, father of John F., Co. B, N.Y.Vol. ; d. S.F. 49. F. (Thos P.), 1847, Co. B, N.Y.Vol.; at Portland, Or., 82. Farnesio (Francisco), 1805, priest from Manila, atMont., sent to Mex. ii. 31, 160. Farnham (Thos Jefferson), 1840, nat. of Me, who came overl. to Or. in 39, and to Cal. via Honolulu on the Don Quixote, returning east by S. Bias and across Mex., and writing books on Or., Mex., and Cal. as a result. See iii. 680; iv. 2, 4, 6-7, 10, 15-17, 25-8, 95, 103, 117, 120, 156-7, 192, 266. F. was a lawyer of some ability, and a writer of somewhat fertile imagination. His work on Cal. is criticised elsewhere in this work; here it must suffice to say that in all those parts resting on his own observations it is worthless trash, and in all that relates to the Calif orniau people a tissue of falsehoods. He came back to Cal. in 47 perhaps in 46, as he took part in a public meeting at S.F. in June 47, v. 455 and died at S.F. in Sept. 48, age 42. He left u widow and 3 children in N.Y. The former. Eliza W. Farnham, came to Cal. by sea in 50, and in 56 published her California Indoors and Out, a pleasing picture of life on the Pacific coast. She was a woman bent on doing the world as much good as possible, and one of her hobbies was the bringing eastern girls to Cal. in quest of husbands. She died in 64 at the age of 49. Farns- worth (J.B.), 1839, Engl. at Mont. ace. to newsp. item of 72. F. (J. M.), 1846, doubtful memb. of the Mormon col. v. 547. Farnum, 1848, inr of a