Judge
James
Frederick
Breen
Born in Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, United States
Son of Patrick Breen
and Margaret (Bulger) Breen
Brother of
John Breen, Edward Joseph Breen, Patrick Breen Jr, Simon Preston Breen, Peter Breen and Margaret Isabella (Breen) McMahon
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 58
in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States
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James Breen was one of 81 pioneers in the Donner Party wagon train to California that became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in 1846.
Biography
James Breen was a member of the Donner Party. See Donner Party.
James was born in 1841. He was the son of Patrick Breen and Margaret Bulger. He passed away in 1899. [1]
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Sources
- ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Eric Daly, Sunday, July 27, 2014. Replace this citation if there is another source.
See also:
- Find A Grave James Frederick Breen.
- Dixon, Kelly, Shannon Novak, Gwen Robbins, Julie Schablitsky, Richard Scott , and Guy Tasa (2010), "Men, Women, and Children are Starving: Archaeology of the Donner Family Camp". American Antiquity 75(3):627-656
- McGlashan, Charles (1879). History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra Nevada: 11th edition (1918), A Carlisle & Company, San Francisco
- McNeese, Tim (2009). The Donner Party: A Doomed Journey, Chelsea House Publications. ISBN 978-1-60413-025-6
- Rarick, Ethan (2008). Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-530502-7
- Rehart, Catherine Morison (2000), The Valley's Legends & Legacies III, Word Dancer Press, ISBN 978-1-884995-18-7
- Stewart, George R. (1936). Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party: supplemented edition (1988), Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-61159-8
- Unruh, John (1993). The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840–60, University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-06360-0
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