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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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. HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 559 brothers are successful farmers in the same vicinity. The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm, and received his education in the public schools. At the age of sixteen years he came to California with his parents, where he has since been a successful farmer. He has 240 acres of choice land, and rents other land. He sows annually from 200 to 260 acres of wheat, and has raised as high as forty-five bushels per acre, the average yield being about twenty-five bushels. In 1879 he was married in Chico to Miss E. L. Dougherty, a native of Arkansas, who was brought to California when six months old. She was the daughter of H.C. Dougherty, a native of Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have one daughter, Josephine. Politieally Mr. Johnson is a Republican. SERRA HARLES BRYANT, blacksmith, C Street, { between Third and Fourth streets, Marysville, Yuba County, California. Mr. Bryant is one of the reliable citizens of the town, and for his many good qualities is highly regarded by all who know him. his life, briefly sketched, is as follows: He was born in Ireland, in 1832, and came with his parents to America when he was five years old. (Decorsie) Bryant. His mother was born in Ireland; his father, a native of Brighton, England, was a trader, and both died in New York State. At the age of seventeen years Charles crossed the plains to California, landed at Hangtown, Placer County, and there engaged in mining two years. From there he went to San Francisco and learned the blacksmith trade, after which, in 1859, he came to Marysville, and has since remained here. He soon established in his line,in Marysville. He does no repairing An outline of . He is a son of Joseph and Johanna . visiting Australia, Mexico, South America and islands of the Pacific. Mr. Bryant was married in San Francisco to Miss Mary Riordan, also a native of Ireland. They have anice family of boys, namely: Charles, Jr., Daniel, George and Walter. Our sub. ject is a member of the A. O. U. W., Marysville Lodge, No. 38, and of Lodge No. 1656, K. of H., of Marysville. fete R. J. ELLIS RODLEY is one of the f) leading members of the medical profession of Butte County; office and residence in Chico. He was born in England, the son of Edward and Sarah (Ellis) Rodley. His father was a woolen manufacturer. Not long after his birth the family removed to New Edinburgh, Scotland, his parents being Scotch by birth and ancestry; and in that conntry the Doctor was reared and educated. He took a three years’ course in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Edinburgh, graduating in 1871, after which he came to the United States. Here he tirst settled at Lebanon, Missouri, where he practiced four years and a half; moved to St. Louis and continued his profession there two years and a half. In 1888 he located in Chico and established a fine office in the new Odd Fellows Hall, then just completed, where he still remains. He at once received a liberal patronage from the best people of the city and his practice has increased until it extends for niles in every direction. The Doctor does not take pride in any special department of the profession, but attends alike faithfully to all the maladies to which the race is subject. He ac. quired his love for the profession trom his uncle, who is an eminent physician and Pro. fessor of Materia Medica in the Edinburgh Cola good trade, and now does the leading business, . or wagon-making, but confines his work to . horse-shoeing. He has traveled a great deal, . lege of Physicians and Surgeons. It has been said that there is nothing like success, and the secret of the Doctor’s prosperity is that he has always been successful.