Solano County
Biographies
REV. J. M. DINSMORE
was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1851. In 1861 he removed to Lawrence county, where he received part of his education, which he completed in Ohio. In 1875 he attended the Western Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, and in the following year proceeded to San Francisco, where he entered the Theological Seminary of that city and graduated April 26, 1878, after which he left for Dixon, Solano county, and took charge of the Presbyterian church there, he being now the resident pastor.
History of Solano County…. – San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley & Co., East Oakland, pub 1879
pp 496
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
J. M. DUDLEY
was born in Oswego county, New York, September 7, 1830. In 1836 he moved with his parents to Indiana, where he received his education, and after taught school during the winters of 1849-50-51. In 1852 he crossed the plains to California, and, on arrival at a place where Dayton in Nevada State now stand, Mr. D. was stricken down with fever and confined to his bed for several months. As soon as able, after his recovery, he went to the mines. On account of sickness he was delayed in Carson valley during the winter of 1852-53. After his recovery he mined in Gold Canon. As soon as the snow had sufficiently melted he continued his journey and settled on the Sacramento river, where he farmed for three years. In 1856 he removed from thence to Dixon, this county, near where he now resides. On first arriving in this section he taught school at Silveyville for four terms, since when he has given his undivided attention to farming. Mr. Dudley served two terms as Legislator in 1862-63, and in 1873 was defeated for the Senate by H. E. McCune. He was a Delegate to the Constitutional Convention which was convened at Sacramento in September, 1878. Mr. D. is a Republican in politics. He married November 24, 1857, Miss Elizabeth F. Dickson, born in Madison county, Illinois, February 1, 1834, by whom he has: Lucy J., Earl D., Frederick M., George D., and Elizabeth.
History of Solano County…. – San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley & Co., East Oakland, pub 1879
pp 496-497
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
JAMES ADDISON ELLIS
(deceased), was born May 1, 1842, in Lewis county, Missouri. At the commencement of the late war he enlisted as a private in Col. Glover’s regiment of Union troops, and was engaged in north-west Missouri in the darkest days of that section. Mr. Ellis was wounded in a skirmish in Marion county and for many months lingered between life and death, but finally recovered. He was a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternities, and also a Granger, in which he occupied a prominent position. In 1864 he married Miss Henrietta Johnson, and came to California in the following year, since which time, up till his death, he was a citizen of Solano county, residing near Dixon where he engaged in farming. He left a family of two girls, Carrie E. and Emma M., who now reside with their mother on the farm in Silveyville township.
History of Solano County…. – San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley & Co., East Oakland, pub 1879
pp 497
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler