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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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619 HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. Miss Mary Avery, a resident of Butte County. They have had born to them two cbildren, Thomas J. and Mabel M. ~8-EBAR C. WARE, one of the rising young > irmere of this community, was born in Butte County, California, September 3, 1863, and has since made his home in the county of his birth. His parents, John and Hannah (Parks) Ware, were natives of Onondaga County, New York. They emigrated to California in 1852, coming overland with ox teams and encountering all the vicissitudes to which the emigrant trains were subject in those days. As did most of the early settlers, the father came in quest of gold, and his first experience in mining was at Thompson’s Flat, Butte County; the next place in which he dug for gold was Long’s Bar, and then he abandoned this enterprise and early in the “sixties” he pre-empted the land on which our subject now makes lis home. Here John Ware died in 1879, but his wife still survives, and makes her home on this spot, which was during the first years of their residence here the ecene of many of the privations which all pioneers meet. But they were courageous and brave-hearted people, and their efforts have been crowned with success. W. C. Ware was joined in marriage to Miss Mary Strong in 1883, and four children were born of this union: Pansie P., Raymond A., Frank (deceased) and Jessie H. The mother was called froin these little ones in 1890. ~ notte? P4Eos tetom— — J RENRY BUSCHMANN was born in Ger19) many in 1831, and received his education “4 in the Fatherland.” After he reached the age at which he was excluded from the public schouls, he joined an American ship’s crew and sailed the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Germany for a period of nine years. Wearying of the sea he determined to try his fortunes on the land, and chose California as the scene of his operations. He sailed by way of Cape Horn, the voyage consuming 144 days. He landed in San Francisco in 1855, and came directly to Oroville, Butte County; there he remained only a few days, proceeding to Feather River, where he engaged in mining on the North Fork at a place known as Berry Creek Bar. In 1867 he pre-empted the land which is his present home farm; he raises hay and some fruit. Mr. Buschmann has served the people of his township as Road-master, filling the office from 1882 to 1884, and from 1886 to 1890. In this capacity he has shown his efficiency for such work, and has given entire satisfaction. Wilke and Margaret (Pleus) Buschmann, the parents of Henry, are natives of Germany. Our subject was united in marriage to Miss Susan Beedey, in Butte County in 1861, and of this union ten children have been born: Harriet E., A. Nettie, John C., Catherine M., Charles H., Carol R., Frederick H., Frank M., Phoebe V., Ida C., and William, deceased. A. STRONG, a farmer much respected in his community, was born in the State of €. New York, Delaware County, in 1837. There he received his education and passed his early yonth. The West, then as now, was offering brilliant opportunities to those young men who came with strong determination to conquer all difficulties, and Mr. Strong, like many others, believed that his fortune lay in the broad, rolling prairies of the Mississippi valley, or buried in the mountains of the Pacifie Coast. He therefore set out in quest of the reward which is sure to crown all honest and persevering effort. Ile first went to Hlinois, and after a brief sojourn there he continued his jeurney to California, landing in Butte County, at Chico, in 1876; he at once went to Loveluck, where he