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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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536 HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. daughter of Dr. G. H. Evans, an old and sucJ. G. was but an infant when his mother died. cessful practitioner of Dixon. Politically Mr. . As he grew up he learned the trade of carpenAgee is a Democrat, but is not active in political matters. Socially he affiliates with the F. & A. M., Silverville Lodge, No. 201, and Dixon Chapter, No. 48. anemic EORGE L. JENKINS, liveryman, Marys¢ ville, was born in 1829 in Kennebec County, Maine, the son of Jabez and Sarah (Nichols) Jenkins, parents also natives of that State. His father, born June 16, 1799 is still living there; his mother died in 1880. Mr. Jenkins came to California in 1852, by water, landing here April5. He was of the first party tu cross the Isthmus on the Panama Railroad. On arrival at San Francisco, he came at once to Marysville and began work in the mines, which he continued until 1860; then he followed teaming for six years, and finally, in 1867, he purchased the New York Stable, which he owned fifteen years, then, selling out and purchasing the Granite Livery Stable, which he now owns and conducts as the leading livery barn of the city. One of his favorite horses is a fine young stallion, named Boxwood, sired by Hardwood: the dam was Lady Zephyr. He was three years old in April, 1890. Mr. Jenkins has about twenty head of livery horses, and his barn being ina . good locality on Second Street, opposite the postoftice, he is convenient to the public, and . has a good business. He is a member uf Lodge No. 9, F. & A. M. He married, January 1, 1872, in Marysville, Catherine Sarah Pumyea, a native of Illinois. a ashe ples aoe G. CORNELL, a citizen of Marysville, was born near White Plains, New York, J, in 1809, the son of Richard and Nancy (Burdy) Cornell, natives also of that State. The father, a blacksmith by trade, died in Auburn, ter, and during the first gold excitement he came in 1849 across the plains to Sacramento and mined the following winter on the Mokelumne River. In February, 1850, he went to Marysville and mined during the following season on Feather River. Afterward he purchased 460 acres of grant land, whereon he followed farming until 1886, when he retired. He still has some interest in mining claims in different sections of the State. He is now residing on E Street, yet unmarried. ~~ ae MLIZABETH J. WRIGHT, of Dixon, is € the wife of Gilbert Wright, a prominent and progressive farmer of Solano County. : He was born in New York, Delaware County, December 12, 1840, and came to California in 1864, where he has been a prominent tiller of the soil for many years, which is attested by the flourishing condition in which we find his farm and general surroundings. He is an enthusiast in agricultural pursuits; is a man of _ refined habits, is a good and useful citizen, and enjoys the respect and contidence of the community in which he resides. Mrs. Elizabeth J. Wright isalso anativeofthe Empire State, born in St. Lawrence County, November 11, 1842, where she was reared until nine years of age. She is the second of ten children born to Richard and Frances (Hague) Hall. The father, a native of Ireland, came to America when-a youth, settling in New York, where he learned the shoemaker’s trade. The mother, a native of England, came with her husband and family to California in 1853, locating at Sacramento until 1857, at which time they moved to Solano County. Here our subject completed his schooling, and was joined in marriage April 14, 1858, with Levi Emerson, a native of Ohio, and they had six children, four of whom are still living, viz.: Frances N. H., New York, at the age of eighty-five years; and . Katie M., Albert B. and Ruth. The father