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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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Page: of 713
620 HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
quantities of hops, and their entire crop is contracted for before it is picked, or, indeed, before
it is grown.
Messrs. Roddan are the sons of Hugh and
Emeline (Browning) Roddan. The father was
born in Scotland and is now a resident of San
Francisco, and the mother, a native of Pennsylvania, died in Yuba County, California, in 1853. .
They came with their parents to California, in
1862, and landed in Nevada County. Two
months later they came to Yuba County and
settled where they now reside. Both are members of the I. O. O. F., Sutter Lodge, No. 100.
J. W. was married at Wheatland, in 1883, to
Miss Eva Plomteaux, a native of California.
They have two children: Cecil W. and Guy H.
W. B. wedded Miss Flora Hezlip, in Wheatland, in 1876. She isa native of Minnesota.
They are the parents of five children, viz.:
Aldine P., Vivian E., Mattie O. Flora O. and
Doland B.
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farmer. This gentleman was born in the
Gem CLARK, a retired Yuba County .
southern part of Virginia in 1821, and,
with others of his race, served as a slave in
Kentucky and Missouri for twenty-three years.
He passed through many hardships, and bravely
bore them all until the day of joy came when
he was brought to California by Mr. W. Clark,
whose name he bears. His reat name is Jinkins,
but: he is better known as Sandy Clark, and
there are few old settlers in this section of the
country who are not familiar with hisname. It .
was December 25, 1850, that he landed in Stockton, this State; a short time later went to Sacramento, and the next day to Marysville, and
from there to Bidwell’s Bar.
place he did some mining, after which he spent
a short time at Oroville.
by water.
cook in the Napa Honse, Napa, and then for
At the latter .
In 1853 he went .
back to the States, but a five weeks’ stay satis.
tied him, and he returned to California, coming .
For some time he was engaged as a .
the next eleven years he was a cook on a ranch
in Butte County, receiving $100 per month.
He saved his earnings, and in 1859 sent East
for his wife, paying $1,500 for her. After she
arrived in California they came to Yuba County
_ and he purchased 320 acres of land from W. G.
Murphy, and engaged in farming for twentythree years. When he bought the place he was
$1,000 in debt, but he worked away bravely and
paid off the mortgage. He sold that property
on the 11th of May, 1889. He lost $6,000 in
a livery stable at Marysville, and $4,000 in
Butte County for labor, He has turned his
property all into money, lives off of his interest, and takes life easy. The last ranch he sold
brought him $9,400. He has no children.
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EORGE DETZLER, overseer of the Hatch
C & Rock orchard of 1,550 acres, is a son of
M. and Sophia Detzler. His mother died
when he was a small boy, in San Joaquin
County, this State. His father is still living in
Butte County on a ranch two miles west of
Biggs, and is now fifty-two years of age. He
was born in Iowa, in 1861, the eldest of four
suns, and is still unmarried. The great fruit
ranch of which he is superintendent is the prop. erty of Messrs. Hatch of San Francisco and
Rock of San Jose. Some of the trees have not
reached the bearing age, being only in their
third year. About 200 hands are employed in
this orchard.
prosperous young farmers of Yuba
County, California. He was born in Nevada County, in 1860, a son of California pioneers, A. J. and Mary (Miller) Webster. His
father was born in Vermont, in 1827, and died
on his farm near Wheatland, November 25,
1887. His mother is a native of New York
State, born in 1835 She is still living and
ee J. WEBSTER is another one of the