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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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5384 HI(STORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
house, a whole village of barns and farm buildings and an crehard for family purposes. For
a time he was largely engaged in sheep-raising,
but more recently has given his attention to
grain farming and stock-raising. He has some
fine Durham cattle, and is producing roadsters
and carriage horses. He devotes 1,500 acres to
grain, principally wheat, raising all the way
from twenty to forty bushels of wheat to the
acre. He kas all the machinery and modern
appliances on his ranch for conducting his farwing operations in the most approved manner.
This farm is one of the finest model ones in
Butte County—the very choicest farming country in the State of California. Mr. McIntosh
also has two other ranches, one a sheep range
of 8,000 acres, and the other a fruit and grain
ranch of 1,300 acres, which he purchased in
1874.
In 1872 Mr. Melntosh was happily married
to Miss Inlea Smith, a native of Illinois and a
daughter of James Smith. Her father was one
of the first settlers of Joliet, and a prominent
citizen of Illinois for many years. Mr. and
Mrs. McIntosh have had three children, two of
whoin died in infancy. Jennie E., their only
surviving child, was born in Colusa County.
For the purpose uf giving her the advantages
of the excellent schools at Chico, Mr. MeIntosh
removed to this city in 1883 and purchased a
beautiful and attractive home, which they remodeled and fitted up, and in which they now
reside. The grounds and whole exterior as
well as the interior of their residence indicate
the refined and cultured taste of its owner.
Our subject has invested a portion of his surplus funds in the Bank of Butte County, one
of the
California.
In his political views Mr. McIntosh is a
Democrat. He was appointed by Governor
3artlett one of the first Trustees of the State
Normal School. He takes a deep interest in
all that pertains to the growth and prosperity
of the county, and, in connection with the Agricultural Society, has been an active and earnest
most successful banks in Northern
worker in the interest of agriculture. It has
been said by some one that it takes more executive ability to conduct a farm successfully than
almost any other business. Mr. McIntosh has
proved himself eminently successful in this vocation. Is a Knight Templar. Personally he is
quiet and unassuming in his manner, possesses
well poised mental faculties, and is in every
sense a true gentleman. To all appearance he
is in the prime of life, notwithstanding he has
been a rancher for thirty-three years. Mrs.
McIntosh is equally as well preserved, and
both have the promise of a long and pleasant
life.
K. McKELLOS is entitled to more than
passing mention in the present volume
as a representative of one. of the most
noted nations in the world. A native of Greece,
he was born there June 24. 1823, and in the
vicinity of his old home obtained an education,
following which he took passage for America,
and landed at the coast of Georgia in 1846.
During the progress of the Mexican war he enlisted in the United States navy on board the
old ship Tennessee, but at the close of that conflict accompanied Commodore Watkins on a
ernise, and reached the port of San Francisco,
landing by means of a whale boat at Sutter’s
Fort, where he engaged in mining with excelA visit to what is now Plumas
County not proving satisfactory, he returned
to Long’s and Bidwell’s Bars, and continued
mining a year, afterward taking active part in
the organization of Butte County, to which he
caine in 1849, The first State Representative,
Judge Lott, received his support at that time.
Subsequently Mr. McKellos ran on steamboats
to Panama under his old commander, but upon
making three trips embarked in the meat and
vegetable business in San Francisco, and remained thus occupied until returning to Butte
in 1854. He was variously occupied after
this for some time, running a restaurant in
lent suecess.