Enter a name, company, place or keywords to search across this item. Then click "Search" (or hit Enter).
Collection: Books and Periodicals
A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
Go to the Archive Home
Go to Thumbnail View of this Item
Go to Single Page View of this Item
Download the Page Image
Copy the Page Text to the Clipboard
Don't highlight the search terms on the Image
Show the Page Image
Show the Image Page Text
Reset View and Center Image
Zoom Out
Zoom In
Rotate Left
Rotate Right
Toggle Full Page View
Flip Image Horizontally
More Information About this Image
Get a Citation for Page or Image - Copy to the Clipboard
Go to the Previous Page (or Left Arrow key)
Go to the Next Page (or Right Arrow key)
Page: of 713
AISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 455
Third and Ivy streets, where he resides with
his family, and he has also invested in other
city property.
February 18, 1867, he married Amanda
Richardson. a native of Illinois, and by her he
haz had foar children. Tney have all been born
in California and their names are as follows:
Frei Everette, Charles Ashley, Barton Egbert
and Eina May. Mr. Walker is a member of
the A. O. U. W., the K. of H., and has passed
all the chairs in the I. O. O. F. Heis a Democrat, and in 1886 was elected City Trustee,
which office he filled with entire satisfaction to
all concerned. “He is a man of enterprise and
public spirit, and will do all he can for the
prosperity of Chico.
fatten
HE ms SWAIN, one of the early settlers
of Butte County, now deceased, came to
California with his wife and three little
children, in 1852. On the Atlantic side they
sailed on the Northern Light and from the Isthmus to San Francisco in the S. S. Lewis. One
thousand and ten passengers left New York and
seventy: five of the men on board died of cholera
aud were buried at sea, while not a lady died on
the pessage. They landed in San Francisco in
July, 1852, went to Sacramento and from there
to Marysville, arriving at the latter place in
August and putting up at the Fremont Hotel.
After remaining in Marysville one year they
moved to La Porte, purchased a hotel and conducted it successfully for six years.They then
moved on to the new road, built the Bangor
Hotel and ran it twenty years, doing the principal hotel business in that section of the
country and entertaining all the early Californians of note and becoming acquainted with
most of the pioneers of the State. In speaking
of early reminiscences Mrs. Swiin stated that
during the first five years in the hotel she did
not entertain or see a white lady. While in
Ohio three children had been born to them:
Jethro M., Orlando E. and Appius. The latter
died and was buried at Marysville. The following children were born to them in California:
Clandius A., Cassius B. and Myrtella. The
latter is now the wife of Julius Beam, a business man of Chico. When the family first
settled in California the eldest son rode a mulea
distance of ten miles to attend school, and their
first school-house was built of old sluice boards.
In 1863, on the 10th of September, Mr.
Swain died, and Mrs. Swain was left alone to
care for her little family. Most faithfully and
heroically did she perform the task. She has
lived to see her children all settled in life and
engaged in honorable business. Tney sold the
hotel in 1871 and removed to Vallejo. After
remaining in that place some time they came to
Chico. One of her sons, Claudius, helped to
build the gas and water works here. Orlando
E. is at this writing principal of the schools at
Antioch. Jethro is an engineer and mechanic
and resides at Alameda. The history of Cassius
appears in this work. He is one of Chico’s enterprising and energetic citizens.
Mrs. Swain relates that while they were keeping hotel at Bangor four men were arrested by
the people for having committed several murders and robberies. One of them confessed and
gave evidence against the rest and he was set
at liberty. A wagon was taken from their yard
and the other three men were put into it and
driven under a tree in sight of the house. Ropes
were thrown over the limb, then fastened aronnd
their necks, and the wagon was pulled away.
They were buried beneath the tree. The early
settlers were obliged to adopt harsh measures
with the lawless criminals, and notwithstanding
the stringent and severe measures used for the
protection of settlers many a man was rathlessly murdered. Mrs. Swain enjoys good
health and is an interesting and intelligent old
lady, a good representative of the women who
accompanied their husbands to California and
underwent all the privations and hardships of
lite in the then new and undeveloped State;
and as the great State of California is the result of their courage and fortitude, they are