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Title: A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) Collection Type: Books and Periodicals Publisher: Lewis Publishing Company Published: 1891 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Source(s): Google Books # of Pages: 713 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 499 The family and other settlers were obliged to occupy the part called the Campus Martius, on the Ohio River, near its confluence with the Muskingum River, owing to a war with the Indians. Mr. Allison’s grandfather, being a good shot, was one of those who eupplied the settlers with game during that time. During this war, 1791-95, the settlers passed years of anxiety and danger within and under the protection of Campus Martius and “Pocketed Point.” An aunt of Mr. Allison, Mrs. Nancy Allison Frost, now in her 106th year, still lives near Marietta, in the enjoyment of good health. In 1795 the family moved up the Muskingum River, almost opposite to where Lowell now stande. Here his father was brought up, and he lived in Ohio, etc., as before stated. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, Mr. Allison, the subject of this notice, was brought up in Washington County, Ohio. In his twenty-fourth year he removed with his family to southeastern Iowa, settling in Van Bureri County in 1840, where he lived until 1854 upon a farm he had entered. In 1850 he crossed the plains for this State, coming by way of Salt Lake, and entering California near Placerville. He was on the route from May to July. The first year he engaged in mining; he then returned to lowa by the Panatna route, and remained there on his farm until 1854; then he sold it ont and brought a drove of cattle overland tu California, and also his family along with him. Locating near Vacaville, he bought a tract and engaged in farming and the rearing of live-stock. In 1855 he also planted 100 peach trees, paying $40 for a handful of twigs, apple and peach, with which to bud his trees; thus he was one of the earliest truitgrowers of Solanv County. He continued in. terested in these pursuits until 1886, when, having 100 acres in fruit, he eold ont. Mr. Allison was married in 1840, to Miss Julia Baldwin, a native of Washington County, Ohio, and a daughter of David and Lavinia (Wheeler) Baldwin, natives of Connecticut, who settled in Ohiv early in the present century. Mr.and Mrs. Allison have six children living: David E., now in the commission business in San Francisco; Charles H., in business in Elmira; Harriet J., now the wife of Thomas Mansfield, of Mount Tabor, Oregon; Orestes H., in business at Elmira; Josiah E., a commission merchant in San Francisco; Hester L., now the wife of Luther J. Harbison, of Vacaville. Eliza M. married Zebulon B. Donaldson, and died in 1873, leaving one daughter. LD ~~ 38 es W. CUTTS, deceased, during his life-time a blacksmith and a respectable resident 2 of Marysville, was born in 1815, in Pittston, Maine, and reared there. In 1849 he joined the Kennebec Company, organized and incorporated for the purpose, who chartered the steamer Obed Mitchell and came around Cape Horn to California, arriving after a voyage of six months, as well equipped probably as any company in the State, and bringing with them the fitted material for a hotel. They mined at Downieville and Kennebec Bar on the Yuba River, which latter place was named after their organization. They also purchased a tract of land, on the Yuba River south of Marysville, in which Mr. Cutts sold his interest in 1852. He located at Marysville, engaging in the blacksmith trade, which he fullowed during life. In 1852-63 he made a visit to the East. He married Abbie Colburn, who is still living. They had three suns and one daughter. Mr. Cutts died at Monterey, in the autumn of 1886, of Bright’s disease. Ile was very domestic in his habits and of strong religions convictions, being for many years an elder in the Presbyterian Church. A. D. Cutts, one of the sons, was burn in the same house where his father was born, Octuber 4, 1841, and arrived in California January 2, 1856. One summer, while yet a lad, he peddled vegetables among the miners in the mountains from the back of a mule; then clerked in a fruit and vegetable sture, when the products