Yolo County
Biographies
JAMES CAMPBELL
James Campbell, a farmer near Davisville, is the son of M. and Agnes (Crummy) Campbell, natives of Ireland, and was born June 10, 1837. In 1848, the family removed to St. Louis, Missouri and two years afterward to Lee County, Illinois, where the father died in 1856. Mr. Campbell, our subject, then resided in Kansas four years and then in 1860 came to California. The first year here he worked in the mines; the second year in the lumber business; the next six years he drove a mule team between Sacramento City and Virginia City, and next went to Davisville and rented land of Green & Hutchinson, for six years, and finally, in 1876, he purchased the place where he now lives, which contains 265 acres, a mile west of Davisville.
In 1867, he was united in marriage with Ellen Fitzgerald, in Sacramento, and their four children are; Ella, born in 1869; Mary, 1872; Frank, 1876; and Charles, 1879.
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California
The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Page 655
Transcribed by: Christine Helmick
E. J. CLANTON
E.J. CLANTON, a fruit drier at Woodland, is the son of J.M. and Mary (Riggs) Clanton, the former a native of Tennessee, born in 1808, a farmer by trade and now living in Woodland, at the age of eighty-one years, and his mother, a native of Kentucky, born in 1810, died in Woodland in 1867. They came to California in 1853, bringing all their children with them except the eldest son, D.R.., whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work. E.J. was born in Adams County, Illinois, May 1, 1832. Leaving Quincy, in that county, April 1, 1853, for California, he arrived in Yolo County, September 17th. His present home, just outside the limits of Woodland, on Maine street, consists of forty acres, on which he raises grapes and other fruits and dries raisins, at the rate of about thirty tons a year. Besides, he dries one ton of apricots and a small quantity of Bartlett pears.
Mr. Clanton was first married in 1863, to M.A. Kelsay. Their children were: Josephine, now the wife
of James England and residing in Lakeport, Lake County; and Jennie A., who married D.G. Hartman and lives near Dunnigan, Yolo County. His present wife, nee Mary D. Kettle, was born in Indiana in 1847. Her parents are now living in Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Clanton were married in Callaway County, that State, September 10, 1874. Mr. Clanton is a member of Woodland Lodge, No.111, I.O.O.F.
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California
The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Page 615
Transcribed by: Bonnie Phelan
EDMOND G. BURGER
Edmond G. Burger, a farmer near Black’s Station, Yolo County, was born in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, April 10, 1826, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Schoch) Burger, natives also of that State; the father was the most of his life in the gold and silver watch dial business. Edmond was seven years of age when he went with his parents in their change of residence to New York, where he served his time in the same trade, working at it until 1849, when he sailed for California, landing at San Francisco. From July to September he followed mining on the Yuba River, and next until the fall of 1851, he was at Shasta City; then he visited the valley, and soon afterward settled upon the place where he now resides, about three miles from Black’s Station, and where he has been a constant resident ever since 1852. At present he has 160 acres, which is well improved.
He was married in Philadelphia, February 16, 1860, to Miss Susan Schoch, a native of Pennsylvania, born February 16, 1842, and they have had eight children, six of whom are living; Lynford E., born in 1861; Joseph, deceased, born in 1862; Clara, born in 1866; William, 1863; Nellie, 1868; Howard, 1872; Edna, 1883; and Edmond, deceased, born in 1865.
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California
The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Pages 659-660
Transcribed by: Christine Helmick
JOSEPH COOK
Joseph Cook, a horticulturist near Woodland, is the son of George Cook, a native of Virginia, who died in Kentucky. Joseph was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky, July 14, 1814, and October 5, 1837, he married in that State, Miss Elizabeth Chiles, who was born in Mercer County, Kentucky, March 10, 1821. In 1848, they moved to Missouri, and made their home there until the spring of 1853, when they came overland with ox teams to California, locating in Yolo County, on a ranch situated on the Willow Slough. The ranch then belonged to his wife’s brother. His wife and Mr. Chile’s wife were the only women in that neighborhood. In 1860, Mr. Cook bought a squatter’s right to 160 acres, and lived thereon till 1878, when he sold it and bought twenty acres near Woodland and set it in fruit.
He has seven children, named and born as follows: George T., born September 3, 1838; Mary B., January 12, 1841; John M., April 6, 1844; Julia L., October 27, 1847; William J., November 30, 1852; James R., November 28, 1857; and Susie, August 14, 1865. Mary B. is now the wife of William Gibson; Julia L. is the wife of Isaac Keys and John M. married Miss Lulu Horton.
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California
The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Page 654
Transcribed by: Christine Helmick