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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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HISTORY OF NORTHERN COALIFORNIA. 459°
traction, died in 1870. The mother is a native
of Ohio, and now a resident of Dixon. They
were a long-lived and prolific rare. Politically
Mr. Harlan is a Republican, and is active and
energetic in local politics. Socially he affiliates
with Montezuma Lodge, I. O. O. F. of Dixon.
He is a man of sterling worth in the community
where he resides, enjoying the respect and confidence of his fellow citizens.
an feted
EVI KORNS, a rancher of Solano County,
th is a native of the old Keystone State, born
February 16, 1829. His father, William
Korng, is a native of Pennsylvania, and of German descent, and his mother, Elizabeth (Hayman) Korns, was a native of the same State,
and of German ancestry. His parents moved
to Holmes County, Ohio, where he was reared
and educated on his father’s farm.
to California, via Panama, in February, 1852,
lucating at Marysville, where he remained two
years; from this point he went to Oregon in
1854, where he remained one year, and then
returned to Siskiyou County, California, remaining five years. Mr. Korns then visited his
old home in the East, but returned in 1859.
He started to Pike’s Peak, Colorado, but, being
disappointed in the reports of this place, he
continued his trip across the plains with ox
teams, and located in Solano County, his present
He came .
home, which is rituated six miles northwest of .
Vacaville. He has ninety-two acres of tine
land, twenty-two acres of which is planted to a
general variety of deciduous fruits, of which he
dries the greater portion and disposes of to the
local markets.
He was married in Sacramento City in 1878,
to Mrs. Harriet S. Thompson, a native of New
York. She has one child by her first husband,
Lulu M. Thompson. Mr. Korns is a Repnblican politically, and has been one of the trustees
of Oakland District, which office he satisfactorily filled. Onur subject is a gentleman who
attends strictly to his own affairs, which is pro. class pointer is his hobby.
verbial of his ancestry, and has the full contidence of all who know him.
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I sre M. BASSFORD, Jr.,a prominent
horticulturist, residing three miles west of
Vacaville, owns a farm of 354 acres of land,
of which 100 acres is planted to a general variety of fruits, which he disposes of by shipping
and selling to the local trade; he also dries
about one-third of his crop. Among his fruits
are cherries, apricots, plums, peaches, pears, almonds, nectarines, figs and chestnuts. He has
also in cultivation fourteen acres of choice table
grapes and 200 acres of land in pasture and grazing lands.
Our subject was born in Benicia, California,
June 25, 1852. He received his edncation
principally in Napa County, where his parents
had removed in 1859, and in 1869 they returned
to Solano County, where they have been prominently identified with horticultural pursuits
up to the present time. Mr. Bassford is the
fourth of ten children born to Joseph and Julia
(Sprague) Bassford. He was married in Vacaville,
September 5, 1876, to Miss Ida C. Barker, of
California, and daughter of the late George F
Barker, a pioneer of this State, who was a native
of New Hampshire, and died February 7, 1872.
Mr. and Mrs. Basstord have three children, viz.:
Lilie C., Joseph E. and Frank B. Socially he
affiliates with the I. O. O. F., Vacaville Lodge,
No. 83, and has passed all the chairs; also K. of
P., of Vacaville. Politically Mr. Bassford is a
Republican, and takes an active part in the issues
of the day, and has also represented his county
in conventions several times. He is very fond
of fly-fishing, but quail-shooting over a firstHe is one of the
champion trap shots of the county, and has run
dogs in all the field-trials of California since
1882, and never ran one that did not get a
place.
Mr. and Mrs. Bassford have three children,
viz.: Lillia C., Joseph E. and Bronk B. Socially