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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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Page: of 713
636 HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
the managing partner since. They are doing
a large wholesale and retail business, having
five departments, 26x105 feet. The building
was planned and built by Mr. Burnham in 1888,
and has a fine iron and plate-glass front. It
is at the corner of Second and Salem streets.
The front is painted white and it is called the
“ White Honse.” It is a metropolitan establishment, as good aa any in the State, and
reflects great credit on Mr. Burnham, its manager. Itis by far the largest business honse
in Chico. They do business with several of
the adjoining counties, have a large retail trade
and have thirteeu employés in the mercantile
departments of the store. Mr. Burnhain has
a ranch and a fine orange grove just coming
to bear, and is planting 100. acres to French
prunes.
He is a native of the State of New York,
born April 23, 1845; was named after his father,
who was also a New Yorker. The ancestor of
the family came from New England in 1733.
His mother, nee Polly Goff, was a native of
New York. and her parents were natives of
Hamburg, Germany. He is the youngest of
thirteen children, eight of them living. He
was in business two years in Chicago before
coming to California in 1865, and was twelve
years in the wholesale tobacco trade in San
Francisco. After coming to Chico he lived on
his ranch, but now lives in Chico.
In 1878 he was united in marriage with Miss
Belma Allen, a native of Illinois, and they
have a daughter and a son, both born in Chico—
Geraldine and Lewis. Mr. Burnhain’s politics
are Democratic and liberal.
EE BlooSo sD
MOHN HARIGER, a farmer of Butte CounJ ty, is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth
(Smathers) Hariger, natives of Pennsylvania. The father died in Clarion County, that
State, in 1876, at the age of seventy-six years.
Two davs before his death he walked two miles
and back, and his decease was therefore very
unexpected. The mother died in the same place,
in 1866. John was born in that county, in
1831, and lived there until he came to California,
in 1856, by water, on the George Law on the
Atlantic side and the Golden Age on the Pacific
Ocean. Directly, by way of Sacramento, he
went to Marysville, and was employed on a
ranch near there, most of the time in Butte
County. In the fall of 1863 he purchased a
claim of 200 acres, and he also pre-empted 160
acres; but, having eold some, he has now only
807 acres. This place was on the Oroville road
five miles east of Gridley, and ten miles from
Oroville. He raises grain and hay principally,
and also some fruit.
He was married in Butte County, in 1863,
to Miss Alice Chester, who died in 1878, leaving six children, viz.: John F., born July 1,
1864; Sarah E., November 11, 1867; George
W., November 22, 1869; Elizabeth J., August
21, 1871; Lillie M., October 29, 1874, and
Mary C., August 25, 1877.
neti dnPY DWARD HIGGINS, of Oroville, was born
© on the 65th of December, 1834, on Long
oe" Island, to the union of Edward and Mary
Higgins, natives of Ireland, the former of whom
was a stone mason by trade. He came to the
United States in 1824 and settled at Brooklyn,
New York, where he carried on his adopted .
calling, and also at Paterson, New Jersey, for
many years, dying when his son, the subject of
this sketch, was twelve years of age. Subsequently the family moved to Indiana, and later
to Missouri, but in 1854 Edward crossed the
plains to California, in company with Benjamin
Tindle, of St. Louis. Their first stopping-place
was at Nichols, in Sutter County, where Mr.
Higgins was engaged in mining the first six
months, then turning his attention to farming,
and finally he carried on the business of salmonfishing, with Pender & Ball, of Sacramento, for
several years. In 1870 he came to Oroville to
enter into the soda water industry, which he has