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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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Original Held At: Searls Historical Library Location: 161 Nevada City Hwy, Nevada City, CA 95959

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HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 637 given close attention for twenty years, during this long period supplying this city and surrounding towns with refreshing beverages in the warm months. That he has established a reliable business and excellent reputation goes without saying; energy and close application have not failed of good results, and he now owns the establishmentin which he conducts business, besides owning other property. Mr. Higgins has been twice married. His first wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Jacoby, died after eight months of happy married life. Mr. Higgins then remained single four years, when, in 1877, he was married, and he has had three children: one, Edward F., died at the age of two and a half years; the others are Charles D. and Mary J., both natives of Oroville. Mr. Higgins isan Encampment Odd Fellow, has passed all the chairs of both branches of the order, and is now Chief Patriarch. He is Recorder in the A. O. U. W., and Financial Reporter of the K. of P. lodge. In politics Mr. Higgins affiliates with the Republican party thongh in local matters supports men and measures. IIe is a straight-forward, reliable citizen, and has many friends. ~ eet Fate Spe eee M. JONES.—A resumé of the life of J. J M. Jones, one of the prosperous and well® known ranchers of Yuba County, California, is as follows: He was born in McMinn County, East Tennessee, in 1822, a son of Thomas and Martha (Bickem) Jones, natives of Alabama. His father’s life was passed in agricultural pursuits, and his death occurred in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1855. Mr. Jones was quite small when his mother died, in East Tennessee, and he has no record of her death. Our subject remained at his native place until 1848, and there received the benefit of the educational advantages afforded by the public schools of the period; but as school lasted only three months during the winter his opportunity to obtain an education was not to be compared with what the favored youths of to-day enjoy. In 1848 he went to Illinois, and made that his home until 1864. In the latter year he came across the plains to California, and, after being five months on the road, landed in Nevada County. He spent a year and a half there before coming to Yuba County. Here he took a small homestead claim, on the Smartville road, nive miles from Marysville. As the years passed by prosperity attended his labors, and he acquired more property, now being the owner of 1,030 acres of as fine land as can be found. It is used as a stock and grain ranch. Mr. Jones was married in 1848, to Miss Sarah Madlock, in East Tennessee, the place of her nativity. She died on their ranch in this county, in 1887. The seven children who were born to them are as follows: Louisa, now Mrs. Bowman, of Yuba County; Rebecca, now Mrs. Pitman, of Spenceville, Nevada County; Lewella, now Mrs. Wallace, of Wheatland, Yuba County; Shelby, a resident of Stockton; and William, Bruce and Jason, at home. Mr. Jones is a generous and public-spirited man, and is held in high esteem by all who know him.