JAMES McKERNAN, saloon-keeper; has been a resident of Platteville since May 10, 1841. He went to California in 1851, and returned the same year; went again in 1862, and returned in 1863. He was born in Canada, and when about a year old his father, Bernard McKernan, removed to Rochester, N. Y., where he resided about six years, then returned to Canada, and lived six years, only about six miles from Detroit, Mich. He went from there to Freeport, Ill., and thence to Platteville in 1841, and died there in 1871. James was married in 1839, in Joliet, Ill., to Mary Ann McCauley, and has five children - James, Laura Ann (now Mrs. Thomas Leahy), Charles, Lillie and Mary Ann.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.