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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. 547 July 13, 1812, and came to Califurnia in 1849. He mined successfully in this State until 1850, when he returned East, and in 1852 brought his wife and children to this State. He was married to Frances M. Van Noy, a native of North Carolina. They had four children when they crossed the plains, and the subject of this sketch was but eight years of age. They settled in Grass Valley, where the father engaged in mining, and later ran the Iowa House two years. They then removed to Yuba County, and were engaged in mining and hotel-keeping from 1854 to 1857. In the latter year they came to Butte County, where they purchased a Government claim. and afterward homesteaded 160 acres, which they improved and since made their home. The father died July 13, 1876, and since that time Mr. Moore has managed the place, and has become an extensive grain farmer. He has raised as high as sixty five bushels to the acre, and he also sows large quantities of grain on the General Bidwell ranch in addition to hisown. He pats in about 2,000 acres of wheat each year, and has all the combined machines for improved farming. Mr. Moore was married October 1, 1868, to Miss Rebecca Jane Patrick, a native of Missouri who was reared in Butte County. She is the daughter of W. G. Patrick, a native of the same State, and an early settler of Butte County. Her mother is now Mrs. W. V. Salmon, whose history, and also the history of the family, will be found in this book. have had six children: William Leroy, Lilly, who died when six years of age; Martha C., Francis Burnham, Charles and Aleda, all of whom are at home. Mr. Moore is a Democrat politically, with American tendencies, and is an enterprising and capable farmer. manufacturer of Dixon, was born in Bavaria, Germany, April 10, 1834, the son of The father was a Jive P. KIRSCH, a saddle and harness Jacob and Catherine Kirsch. Mr. and Mre. Moore. brick-mason by trade, and died in 1834; the mother died in 1863. Our subject, the fourth of their five children, came to America and located in New Orleans in 1852, where he learned the saddler’s trade. In 1857 he became a journeyman in Mobile, Alabama, and was also for a time in Bay St. Louis, Missouri. He came to Caliturnia, via Panama, taking passage on the Pacific side on the old steamer Constitution. After his arrival in the Golden State he worked at his trade in Sacramento City and Woodland, Yolo County, one year, and then permanently located in Dixon. In 1872 he began business on his own account, and is now located on the corner of B and First streets, where he has a nice property of 30x150 feet. He carries a neat and durable line of harness, saddles, robes, etc., while his wife has a dressmaking establishment in the same building, and enjoys a good and lucrative trade. They also own other city property. Mr. Kirsch has been married three times, there having been five children by the first union, namely: Edward, and four deceased. The second marriage was in Dixon, in 1874, to Mary F. Pierce, a native of Illinois, and by this marriage there is one living child, Emma, Walter having died July 20,1876. Mr. Kirsch was married to his present wife in Dixon, November 7, 1880. Mra. Kirsch, nee Mary J. Coapland, has also been thrice mnarried. She is a native of Columbia, Geurgia, the daughter of Stephen Coapland, who came to this State in 1850, and died in 1887, at the age of ninety years. Mr. Kirsch affiliates with the A. O. U. W., Tehama Lodge, No. 187. TNOONE JONES, one of Butte County’s suc‘ BD cessful farmers, was born in New Bruns“” ~wick, May 9, 1834, and came to California in 1857. Ilis grandfather, Richard Jones, came trom England and settled in Pennsylvania, and during the Revolutionary war remained loyal to his king, tor which he was given land in New