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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 581
arrival in this State, Mr. Ciifford was united in
marriage, in San Francisco, with Jessie Grayham. They made their home in Marysville,
Yuba County. Then he purchased a ranch of
160 acres, upon which he now resides. His
land is all well improved, and his attention is
given principally to the production of grain.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford had seven children,
namely: Annie, Margaret, Ellen, Lizzie, Jane,
Mary and William. John, the youngest, was
taken from them in 1885, and in 1887 the
mother was called home. She was a devoted
wife and loving and indulgent mother, and in
her death the family sustained a severe loss.
Mr. Clifford has kept his family together, and
has put forth every effort to make his children
comfortable and happy.
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ILLIAM L. KOSH came to California
aM in March, 1852. He is a native of
Van Buren County, Michigan, born
February 8, 1834. The family removed to
Pennsylvania, where, when he was a small child,
it was his misfortune to lose both parents. He
afterward lived with a Mr. Rogers in that State,
and worked for himself from the time he was
nine years old. Hearing of the gold discovery
in California, he decided to make his way to the
new El Dorado, and accordingly went to the city
of Philadelphia, from whence he came to the
Pacitic Coast*as a sailor before the mast. He
went to Rough and Ready, Nevada County,
where a Mr. Bradley kindly showed him how to
mine. He worked with two other boys and
met with fair success, but like other miners they
inade and lost money. In 1855 or ’56 he and
three companions found near Rough and}Ready
anugget of gold that weighed seventy-two ounces.
They deposited it at the express office and afterward disposed of it for something over $1,300.
After mining seven years Mr. Kosh went to
Stony Creek and engaged in
remaining there a year. He then removed
to Princetown, on the east side of the Sacramento River, and was there three or four years.
Pasture was free and plenty, and he had a large
number of cattle. By the high waters of 1862,
however, he lost nearly all the stock he had,
escaping with only thirty head of cattle. He
worked there all winter and met with many a
bitter experience, waded the sloughs up to his
neck, saw the cattle dying of starvation, and,
making up his mind that that part of the county
was of little value, he decided to go elsewhere.
His first move was to Virginia City, Nevada,
but he svon returned to Califoruia and hired
out to work at Bear River. He had been several
years in Butte County, but did not settle on his
present ranch until 1865, when he took a quit
claim of 105 acres. This is located two miles
from the city of Chico. Mr. Kosh also owns a
ranch of 160 acres in the hills. His first house
having been burned, in 1878 he erected a good
. home, and is now surrounded by all the comforts of life. He devotes 200 acres of land to
wheat and harvests fron twenty-five to thirty
bushels per acre. He has good barns, employs
. from one to seven men according to the season.
stock raising, .
Mr. Kosh belongs to all the branches of the
I. O. O. F., in politics is a Democrat, and as
one of the reliable citizens of Chico is ranked
among the best.
anette Siem —
ee BAY, a Forty-niner and an early
business man of Chico, Butte County,
was born in Hudson, Columbia County, New York, December 38, 1822, son of
Thomas and Harriet (Mansfield) Bay, both New
Yorkers. The family were Huguenots and originated in Holland. Mr. and Mrs. Bay had
nine children, two of whom are living. The
subject of our sketch was the youngest of the
family, and was educated in New York and
Massachusetts. At the-age of seventeen he
located in Missouri, where, for two years, he
was engaged in clerking. In 1844 he made a
trip West as far as the Green River, and in 1849
when the California gold fever pervaded the
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