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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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Page: of 713
too HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
contains 1,300 acres, 280 acres of which are in
Butte County. He is now occupying his wife’s
ranch of 400 acres on the Pennington road,
abont seven miles from Live Oak and a half
mile from Pennington.
Mr. Pngh has been married three times.
Ilis first wife was Jane Calder, a native of
Scotland, and they had two children, Mary E.
and Eliza J. For his second wife Mr. Pugh
married Mrs, Nancy Cox, a native of Virginia;
and for his third and present wife he married
Mrs. Mary (ree Williams) Fairlee. This lady
had married George W. Fairlee, a native of
Belmont Connty, Ohie, who afterward went to
Jowa and was married March 15, 1846; and in
1849 he crossed the plains to California, settling
upon the present homestead in 1856. He was
a member of the Pioneer Society, and was
killed in 1870 by a runaway team. He had
eight children: John C., George W., Ida M.,
Franklin C., Alice M., Era B., Stephen A. G.
and Nettie L.
Mr. Pugh is a member of theeMarysville Pioneer Society, and of the orders of Patrons of
Husbandry, the Gvod Templars and Freemasons.
r) HILETUS L. BUNCE, an old and _ promi> nent farmer of Sutter County, was born
* in Suffolk County, New York, April 17,
1834, a son cf Allen and Nancy (Parker)
Bunce, who are natives uf Connecticut. The
father was a farmer all his life, except that in
later years he was retired from active work,
living in Sag Harbor. He died at the age ot
sixty-one years.
Mr. P. L. Bunce, our subject, was brought
up ona ferm. In January, 1853, he started
for California in a party of nine men, sailing
from New York and coming by way of the
Isthinns. After visiting Marysville and Strawberry Valley, he returned to the former place
and began working for wages on the dairy ranch
of Harris Brothers, and continued there for
two and a half years. Then he started out for
himeelf, settling upon a quarter section of supposed Government land, a mile southwest of
Yuba City, which afterward proved to be on
the eleven-league grant of General Sntter, and
he was obliged to pay a private owner for the
same. There in 1855 he began the dairy business and continued it successfully until 1871,
when he sold out to Charles Hedges and set out
in general farming, raising alfalfa principally
and live-etock, and he has improved -the place
until he has made it one of beanty as well as
utility. In 1881 he began the fruit industry,
and has now sixty acres of bottom land devoted
to a general variety of choice fruits, nearly all
in bearing. In all he had 220 acres. In 1888
he subdivided 100 acres of his land into ten and
twenty-acre tracts, all in fruits, and laid it out
with fine avenues, walks, ete.
Politically he is a Democrat. Was levee
director for District No. 1 for seven years; was
Supervisor one term, 1880; and in November,
1890, he was again elected Supervisor for the
Second District, for the full term of four years.
He is a member of the A. O. U. W. of Yuba
City; of Pioneer Lodge, No. 1, O. C. F.; of
Yuba City Grange, No. 65. He was married in
1855 to Miss Mary R. Traynor, a native of
Ireland, who died in 1881. He was married
again in 1882 to Mary E. Lydon, a native of
Wisconsin, and by this marriage there have
been three children, of whom two are now
living, Allen P. and Mark Leon.
See SeiD
@)} DER, Public Administrator of Yuba
County. This gentleman’s father, Edmund Batchelder, was a native of Massachnsetts. The maternal branch of the family is
named Kimball, some members of which are
now living in New York and Massachusetts,
and some of their recent descendants spell their
name Kemble. The Batchelder family is of
English origin, and on both sides of the house
their ancestors can be traced back for over 200
fh» ADONIRAM JUDSON BATCHEL-