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surveyor
Jasper O'Farrell was the first surveyor for San Francisco.
Background
O'Farrell was born in County Wexford, Ireland in 1817 and was educated in Dublin.
Career
He designed the "grand promenade" that became today's Market Street. O'Farrell Street in San Francisco is named after him.
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He went to London, England, where he boarded a ship bound for South America.
After leaving Chile, he came to San Francisco in 1843. O'Farrell found work with the Mexican government and surveyed much of Marin and Sonoma counties.
He was one of the first settlers of Sebastopol, where he purchased Rancho Estero Americano in 1843.
He named the valley after Annaly, Ireland, the home of the O'Farrell family. Following the American conquest of San Francisco, the Military Mayor of San Francisco, Lt.Washington Allon Bartlett commissioned a land survey of Yerba Buena (later to be ca