Mendocino County
Biographies
Fulwider, William
William Fulwider. The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, April 5, 1832. At his birthplace he received a common school education, and resided till the spring of 1852 when he came via Cape Horn to California, arriving in the Golden State in August of that year. He immediately proceeded to Trinity county and began mining near Weaverville, which business he followed in that vicinity till the spring of 1856, when in May of that year he came to Mendocino county, and settled on his present place of three hundred and twenty acres. In June, 1856, he went to the Fraser River excitement, and was absent one year, when he again returned to his home in this valley, and has since resided here. Married in October, 1860, and has nine children, Robert H. born December 27, 1861; Sarah F., November 18, 1863; Mary J., September 10, 1865; John W., February 12, 1867; Theodore E., November 9, 1868; Lucine E., September 29, 1870; Ella F., October 14, 1872; Augustus C., February 8, 1875; Laura E., December 25, 1876.
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 582
Transcribed by Pat Howard
Farley, Jackson
Jackson Farley. The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this work, is the oldest son of Thomas and Margaret Ferguson Farley, and was born in Logan county, Virginia, October 13th, about the year 1810. At his birthplace he resided till nine years old, when his parents moved to Clark county, Illinois, where they remained for three years. His parents then returned to his native State where they resided till he was eighteen years old, when they moved to Missouri, and settled in Platte county, where Mr. Farley engaged in farming and raising stock, for four years. He then moved to Anderson county, that State, where he resided till the spring of 1849, when he, with ox-teams, came across the plains to California. He at once began mining in Hangtown (Placerville,) where he worked till Christmas; then he went to San Francisco, and soon afterward came to Napa county, stayed there till the spring of 1850, then went to Trinity county; prospected three weeks, and went thence to Yuba on the Feather river; remained there until fall. Then he returned to Napa City; thence back to Missouri. In the fall of 1850 Mr. Farley returned to Missouri; and again in 1851, he, with his brother’s family, returned across the plains to California. His brother emigrated to Oregon in 1846 but is now living with him at his home in this county. In May, 1857, he settled in Mendocino county, on the place where he now lives, consisting of three hundred and twenty acres of land. Mr. Farley married in October, 1845, Caroline Stokes; she died in 1848. By this union they had two children, both of whom died in Napa, one in the fall of 1856, and one in the spring of 1857.
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 582, 583
Transcribed by Pat Howard
Howard, Taylor
Taylor Howard. Was born in McDonald county, Missouri, January 22, 1848, when he was about eight years of age his parents came to California, crossing the plains with ox-teams. They arrived in San Joaquin county in the fall of 1856, where they resided about one year. They then moved to Sonoma county, and settled near Geyserville. In the fall of 1858, they came to Mendocino county, and settled about three miles from Ukiah where the elder Mr. Howard still resides. Taylor Howard remained with his parents till 1876, when he purchased and settled upon his present place consisting of six hundred and forty acres, in company with W. W. Moore. Here they are engaged in wool-growing, having about one thousand two hundred head of sheep. Mr. Howard married, August 22, 1875, Miss Katie Chase, a native of California.
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 583
Transcribed by Pat Howard