Solano County
Biographies
CHRISTOPHER C. AGEE
is a native of Buckingham county, Virginia, where he was born, February 26, 1826. When about six years old he removed with his parents to Charleston, and there received his education. In 1839, his parents again removing, he accompanied them to Lewis county, Mo., where he was employed as a clerk and bookkeeper for seven years, and then started in business on his own account, which he continued for four years. In 1849 he crossed the plains to California, arriving at Sacramento on September 4th of that year, when, shortly after, he and his brother (W. W. Agee) build the first store ever opened in Nevada City, Cal. He also worked at the mines with very good success. In 1852 he returned to Missouri, and purchased and improved a farm, on which he resided for five years, and then, selling out, he proceeded to Iowa Point, Kansas, on the Missouri river, and again engaged in trade, which he carried on for about four years, when he sold out, still holding his private property, and went with an ox-team to Pike’s Peak, but not meeting with encouragement, at the end of two months he returned. Mr. Agee then traded his private property at Iowa Point for land in Carroll county, Mo., and also bought another farm in north-eastern Missouri, where he resided for two years; then he located in Illinois, where he speculated for a couple of years, when he sold his Missouri possessions, and once more started for California, with mule and ox-teams, accompanied by his brother-in-law, J. A. Ellis; arrived in Sacramento September 4, 1865. On arrival he rented a tract of land from Judge Curry, which he farmed for ten years, residing on the ranch for the first three years, the remainder being passed in Dixon. He also farmed four hundred acres of his own land in Yolo county, and, in November, 1877, he moved on to the place where he now lives, situated four miles north-east of Dixon. Mr. Agee married March 4, 1852, Miss Elizabeth J. Ellis, who was born in Oldham county, Kentucky, December 18, 1832, and has had Mary E., William E., Susan, and Walter L.; all of whom are deceased; and living, Charles F. and Lillie C.
History of Solano County…. – San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley & Co., East Oakland, pub 1879
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Transcribed by Kathy Sedler