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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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Page: of 713
HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 519
farm. It consists of 240 acres, 100 of which are
vines and orchard; the trees consist principally
of peach and prune, and the bulk of this produce
is dried and shipped to dealers in Sacramento.
Mr. Smith was united in marriage at Sacramento, January 30, 1888, to Miss Ida E. Henderson, who was born in El Dorado County, a
daughter of John E. Henderson, Esq., a native
of Tennessee. Mr. Henderson was for many
years a prominent merchant of El Dorado County. His death occurred in 1861.
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HARLES T. ROUSSIN, retail dealer in
€ wines and spirits, El Dorado, is one
of the old and respected pioneers of
El] Dorado County. He dates his birth in
Washington County, Missouri, December 20,
1834. He was reared and educated in his native State until seventeen years of age, at which
period he crossed the plains by ox team to El
Dorado County, where he engaged actively in
mining until 1875, and is still in that enterprise. From 1876 to 1880 he was UnderSheriff and Deputy County Treasurer; also
Constable of Mud Springs Township for nine
years, and Justice of the Peace of White Oak
Township two years, and Road Supervisor two
years, and in Mud Spring Township held the
same position for a period of four years. He
has also been an attaché of the State Legislature as Engrossing Clerk for two years. Politically he is allied with the Democratic party,
and takes an active part in political matters.
He was a delegate to represent his county in
the State Convention held at San Jose in August, 1890, and was also a delegate to the first
convention held in Georgetown, El Dorado
County.
Mr. Roussin was joined in marriage, in El
Dorado County, May 16, 1861, with Miss Lenora M. Gray, a native of Illinois, who came to .
California in 1854. Her father, Young Gray,
was anative of Kentucky and a California pioneer of 1854. Mr.and Mrs. Roussin have eight .
children living, namely: William T., Elmore L.,
Zoe, Lillian, Virdie G., Flora, Charles B. and
Nora. The deceased were: Henry C., who died
in 1865; Forest, who died in 1874; Clarence,
who died in 1888. Our subject is the second
of eleven children born to Charles and Ann
(Lowe) Roussin, both natives of Missouri. The
father died in 1859. The mother’s genealogy
on the paternal side is traceable back to German
and on the maternal side to Irish ancestry. The
fainily were very prolific and long-lived.
Mr. Roussin resides on his ten-acre lot in the
town site of El Dorado, El Dorado County.
ENRY JOHNSON, a prosperous rancher
i) of Sutter County, was born in Brooklyn,
New York, November 16, 1815, a son of
William and Mary (Legg) Johnson. The father
in earlier days was employed in a woolen factory, and moved to Meigs County, Ohio, in
pioneer times, when Henry was fourteen years
of age. He remained there on a farm nine
years, and returned to New York, where he
spent the remainder of his life. Mr. Henry
Johnson started out for himself at the age of
twenty-two years, residing in Quincy, Illinois,
until 1852, when he crossed the plains to this
State, with ox teams, with four others, ard
made his first stop in Sierra County, on Jimson
Creek. He went to Seventy-six and helped build
asaw-mill. In the fall he went to Marysville, and
thence to the mines. In March, 1853, meeting a
stranger, Mr. Aldrich, about to start a trading
post at Gibsonville, he hastened to Marysville,
purchased a stock of goods and took them on
mule-back to Gibsonville, and sold them from
the backs of the mules, excepting about $500
worth. Le was trusted to the extent of over
$1,500, in miners’ money. Thus he got three
leads there before Mr. Aldrich did his first
load. Afterward he started a hotel and store in
Gibsonville, but failed two years afterward and
located upon his present place, six miles southwest of Yuba City, among the first settlers