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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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595 HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
factory for seven years. At the end of that
time he came with his family to Cahfornia,
arriving here June 27, 1876 They spent four
months in Corning, Tehama Connty, before
coming to Chico. He worked here as a laborer
one year, and then started his cigar business,
which he still continnes. He has purchased a
very desirable lot on Broadway, near the
I. O. O. F. Hall, and has erected on it a store
building. In 1890, in connection with his sonin-law, J. D. Edward, a business man from New
York, he started their Bee Hive Dry Goods
Store. By their honorable methods of dealing
with customers and by reasonable prices they
are securing a fair patronage.
The whole family are noted for their musical
talents. In 1884 Mr. Newbarth started the
Chico Brass Band, of which his oldest son is
leader. Allof his sons play in it and they also
havea fine string band all their own. On New
Year’s day, 1891, the string band was ont
serenading and the writer of this article had the
pleasure of listening to their most excellent
music. The whole family are popular in social
circles, and are highly esteemed by all who
know them. Their musical] talent, besides furnishing entertainment for themselves and their
friends, is a souree of revenue to them.
Mr. Newbarth is a Knight of Pythias, and he
and his sons are Republicans.
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HARLES H. MYERS, one of the successful farmers of Butte County, was born in
the State of New Jersey, in the year 1832,
and is a son of Joseph and Rachel Myers, also
natives of New Jersey. The father died in
1868, and the mother, in 1874; both lived and
died in the State in which they were born.
When Charles II. was twenty-one years of
age he bade adieu to the home of his youth,
and set ont for California, with the determination of making the most of his opportunities,
possible. Ie made the journey by way of the
Isthmus of Panama, landing in San Francisco
in March, 1854; he continued his wanderings
until he came to Yuba County, and there he
embarked in the business of mining; it was six
years before he abanduned this enterprise, having met with fair success.
He then selected Sutter County as his next
place of abode, taking up agriculture; after
a few years’ residence here he decided to buy
land in Butte County, and he now owns a fincly
improved farm of 480 acres, lying four and onehalf miles from Gridley. He devotes his time
to the raising of live-stock and grain, and as
the soil of California quickly responds to proper
cultivation, he has been able to reap bountiful
harvests.
Mr. Myers was married in our “ Centennial ”
year, 1876, to Miss Elizabeth Exen, a native of
Illinois. Mrs. Myers was born in the year
1851, and she is the mother of three children:
Charles, Rachel, and Elizabeth.
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MUSTON PERRY HELMS owes his nativity to Owen County, Indiana, where he
was born May 24, 1824, one of a family
of nine children, only two of whom are now
living. Nobery Helms, his father, was a Kentuckian by birth, and a farmer by vocation; he
made his home in Texas in later life, and while
residing there was killed by Indians. Huston
remained in his native State until fifteen years
of age, then removing to Missouri, where he
continued to live until his removal to California
in 1857. At that time the reports of fabulous
wealth on the Pacific Coast caused him to desire
a share in the easily acquired gold; so, starting
with his little family in a covered wagon, drawn
by an ox team, he commenced the long journey
across the plains, the trip lasting six months.
But the presence of other travelers, and the
scenes en route lessened the fatigue of their
daily travel, and such a thing as fear was removed. Coming direct to Oroville, Mr. Helins
soon rented a farm and began farming and
stock-raising, purchasing later on 300 acres of