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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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454 H{sTORY OF NORTHERN (GALIFURNIA.
to Canada, remaining one year. They then
came to America, locating in Chicago, Illinois,
where James attended the public schools. The
futher was a buker by trade, and carried on
that business in Chicago. Young James learned
the trade with his father, and followed that
calling until 1852, when he crossed the plains
tu Caliiornia, as did also the family, locating in
Sacramento city. Our subject followed various
occupations for two years, when he came to SoJano County, and is now located on a tarm of
1.280 acres, seven and a half miles southeast of
Dixon. This neat little farm is principally devuted to grain-gruwing, there being 1,100 acres
pianted to that article, and six acres to a general variety of fruit trees, and also a smalt vineyard of table grapes. Mr. Millar also conducts
a large dairy business, milking over 100 cows.
The product is manufactured into butter, for
which he finds a ready sale in San Francisco
and Sacramento markets. In addition to this
sinall ranch, Mr. Millar owns 4,200 acres of
grain and stock land in Shasta and Tehama
counties.
He was united in marriage in Solano County,
January 2, 1863, to Miss Kate McGuire, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. They have
three children, namely: Robert F., Mary E. and
James B. F. Mr. Millar takes an active interest in school matters, and has been a member
of the Board of School Trustees twenty years.
He affiliates with the Republican party,
although he is not active in political matters.
His family on both sides were long-lived and
prolific. His mother died in 1847, and his
father in 1866.
ees a een
County, is a son of Conrad and Maria
(Lagars) Branns, natives of Germany. His
father died in his native land, and his mother
came to Illinois with him in 1843. He also
was born in Germany, in 1834. On his arrival
in this State, overland, he first stopped at
J coms BRANNS, a rancher of Butte
Marysville. On growing up he first visited
Bidwell’s Bar, and then Oroville, where he was
engaged in mining. He is now farming 800
acres of Judge Lott’s farm, and raises grain
as his principal crop. In 1872, at the Catholic
Church in Marysville, he ynarried Miss Christina Demos, also a native of Germany, and they
have seven children, namely: Edward, Albert,
Juseph, Katie, Emma, Carolina and Annie.
EFFERSON ASBURY WALKER, brick
‘ manufacturer and contractor and builder,
came to California in 1856 and to Chico in
1874. Since he located here he has been an
important factor in the construction of many
of the fine business blocks and residences that
adorn Chico.
Mr. Walker was born in St. Francis County,
Missouri, November 13, 1844. His father,
Erastus B. Walker, was also a native of that
State, and grandfather Walker was a Pennsylvanian by birth. The mother of our subject,
nee Levina McKee, was born in Missouri of
Pennsylvania-Dutch ancestry, her father having been one of the early settlers of St. Francis
County. J. A. Walker was the second in a
family of tive children. His father came to
Califorria in 1850, and the family came in 1856.
As he was only twelve years old at the time of
his arrival here the principal part of his education was obtained in this State—in San Joaquin
County. He learned the trade of brick-making
and brick-laying, and moved to Los Angeles
County, and settled at Compton in 1868, where
he spent six or seven years; made the first
brick that was made in the vicinity uf Santa
Ana, ete. In 1874 he established his brick
business in Chico. He furnished the brick for
the new school-house and a part of that used in
the old one, also for the Odd Fellows’ Hall, the
finest building in the city, for the Park Hotel
and for the Johnson House, besides that for
many other buildings. Mr. Walker erected for
himself a nice brick house on the corner of