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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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542 HISTORY OF NORTHERN COALIFORNIA.
California, via Panama, and located in Sonoma
County, near Petaluma, where he engaged in
farming. In 1869 he came tu Solano County,
and is now residing with his family on their
farm.
Mr. McKinstry was married in Sonoma
County, March 21, 1866, to Miss Nancy M.
Fleming, a native of Michigan, and they have .
six children, viz.: Charles C., George D., Martha
A., Mary E., Waldo H. and Ralph A. Mr. .
McKinstry takes an active interest in school
matters, and socially afliliates with the A. O.
U. W., Dixon Lodge, No. 50.
at
ANS TIMM, a prosperous and substantial
fi farmer of Solano County, owns 640 acres of
choice land, situated six miles east of the
town of Dixon. The entire block is devoted to
grain-growing and stock-raising, except a small
portion set in frnit and vines for home use.
He was born in Holstein, Germany, November
28, 1831, the second of four children born to .
Peter and Annie (Paul) Timm, an influential
family of Germany. The father was born in
the year 1800, and died when our subject was
very young. The mother is still living, at the
age of eighty-six years.
Mr. Timm was reared and educated in his
native country, and afterward emigrated to New
Orleans, Louisana, in 1853, and from the Crescent City to Davenport, lowa, where he was
engaged in brick-making six years. He then
turned his attention to farming until 1864, in
which year he sailed for California, via Panama,
remaining a short time in San Francisco. He
was naturalized in Davenport, Iowa, in 1859,
and cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln in
1860. His political views have always been
Republican.
matters, and has been a member of the Board
of Trustees many years.
He was united in marriage, in Davenport,
Towa, in the fall of 1856, to Miss Maggie
Weise, also a native of Germany, who came to .
. acres in fine condition.
_ had one daughter, Katie.
He takes an active part in school
America in 1853. They have reared a family
of eight children, viz.: Peter, Agnes, Henry,
Caroline, Cecilia, Mary, Charles and Bertie,
two are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Timm have a
beautiful home, with lovely garden and lawn,
and the house is furnished with taste and neatness.
C. DONOHOE, a Sutter County rancher,
J was born August 18, 1827, in Ireland, a
? son of David and Elizabeth (Barnes)
Donohoe, parents both natives of that country.
His father, who followed the rearing of livestock the most of his life, never emigrated to
America. At the age of twelve years the subject of this sketch came to America, first landing in Nova Scotia. He followed the sea for
five years; steamboating on the lower Mississippi River until 1849; he then went to Boston, Massachusetts, whence he sailed for California, landing in San Francisco. The first six
months he spent at Mokelumne Hill; the next
eighteen months at Nelson Creek, being successful in business; then he settled upon a
. ranch in Sutter County, four miles north of
his present residence, and lived there seven
years, investing about $15,000. Ascertaining
then that it was grant land, and losing all his
improvements, he settled upon a tract of Government land, where he now resides and has 500
It is at Lomo Station,
six miles north of Marysville.
He was married in Dublin in 1855, to Miss
Murphy, who died in California in 1859, having
Mr. Donohoe for his
present wife married Miss Susan Ryan, in San
Francisco, in 1864, and they have two sons,
Charles and Thomas.
stock-raiser of Sutter County, was born in
Basle, Switzerland, near the Rhine, March
29, 1834, a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (RegeJ SCHLAG, a prosperous farmer and