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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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Original Held At: Searls Historical Library Location: 161 Nevada City Hwy, Nevada City, CA 95959

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518 HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. homestead, nine miles from Yuba City, his postoflice. His uncle went to the mines with the sheep, and since that time has been a resident of the same place. In the homestead are now 320 acres, devoted to general farming. All the improvements are the product of Mr. Coats’ own hands. He is a member of Yuba City Lodge, No. 85, 1. O. O. F.; has been a levee commissioner for Ditch No. 1 since September, 1889, and a school trustee for a number of years. In his political sympathies he is a Democrat. He was married in 1862, to Miss Isabel Boon, a native of Missuuri, and the following are their childrev: Catherine B., wife of B. B. Adains; Nettie, wife of Frank Kilpatrick; William and Orba. x May 6, 1833, a son of Patrick and Margaret (McTinney) McCune, natives of Ireland. Patrick McCune, a farmer, remained in New York State until his death, in 1887, at the age of seventy-eight years. His widow ie still living, now aged eighty years. Mr. Philip McCune was reared on a farm until the age of seventeen years, then, in the fall of 1850, started for California, sailing from New York on the steamer Illinois to Panama, und thence on the Oregon tu San Francisco. First he went to the Southern mines at Sonura; then was at Washington on Wood’s Creek until the fall of 1852, when he came on to Marysville and proceeded up to Dry Creek, twenty-five miles north, and passed the ensuing winter there; next he spent two years in Grass Valley; then was six months in Colorado; returned to French. man’s Bar on the Yuba River, where he became interested in the Million Company and mined there that summer; next he mined a yeer at Grass Valley; then followed teaming to the mines; engaged for abuut five years in transferring and draying to Marysville; and finally he entered as a homestead the southwest quarter of section 28, township 15 north and range 3 east, being three miles southwest of Yuba City. All the improvements there now he has himself made. The land is in a fine condition. He carries on general farming, has fourteen acres in vineyard and fifty in orchard. Mr. McCune is a member of Pioneer Lodge, No. 1, of Chosen Friends. He was married in 1867 to Miss Mary Barnett, a native of Illinois, and has four children: William, Annie, Philip and Edward. PALBERT WILLIAM SMITH, foreman of tl, the Mountain View Fruit-farm, situated near Diamond Springs, is a native of the State of California. He was born in Santa ‘ara County, April 18, 1859, and is a son of Edwin T. and Susan (Tong) Smith. The father was a native of Connecticut, and emigrated to California in 1852, locating in Santa Clara Connty; he was descended from the old Puritan stock of Smiths; by trade he was a carriage and wagon maker. The mocher was a native of Tennessee, and sprung from one of the oldest and most influential families of the State. She died in Santa Clara County, California, April 4, 1868. Young Smith received his education in the common schools of Santa Clara and El Dorado counties, coming to the latter soon after his mother’s death; he resided there with an uncle until 1880, and then went to Nevada County, where he began. gravel and quartz mining; for a period of five years he was engaged in this business, severing his connection to go to Marysville, where he entered into partnership with his brother, Charles L., in the insurance This work claimed his attention nnbusiness. til 1886, when he was called to his present responsible position. The farm which Mr. Smith superintends belongs tu the estate of the late Welch & Smith, and is known as the Mountain View Fruit