Yolo County
Biographies
JOHN MULL
a horticulturist at Woodland, is a son of Jacob and Almira (Sage) Mull. His father was born in 1807, in the State of New York, and his mother in 1812 in Connecticut, and they are both now living in Oberlin, Ohio. Mr. Mull, the subject of this brief notice, was born in Nunda, Livingston County, New York, February 20, 1832, and was but a year old when the family removed to Ohio. He grew up to manhood there and married Charlotte Chandler, the daughter of Salmon and Naomi Chandler, born May 1, 1832, in Ohio, the date of their marriage being November 9, 1854. Mr. Mull was engaged in agricultural pursuits in Ohio until 1859, when he came overland to California, settling in Yolo County. He took up a quarter section of land about six miles south of Woodland, and occupied it for fifteen years, when he sold it and purchased seven acres in the eastern portion of Woodland, where he now resides. Mrs. Mull is the owner of forty acres six miles south of Woodland, which is rented. Mr. Mull was Road-master for six and a half years, and during his term of office he put upon the county roads the first load of gravel. The children are: George T., who was born September 20, 1855, and Rosa L., who was born October 24, 1857, and is now the wife of William Wallace: both are natives of Ohio.
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
SAMUEL SHRYOCK
engineer of the Woodland City Water-works, is a son of John and Mary (Sheets) Shryock, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Rochester, New York. He was born in Hamilton County, Indiana, November 14, 1827, where he, on growing up to manhood, served his time as an apprentice at the carpenter and joiners’ trade. In 1853 he came to California and was in the mines until December, 1855, when he went to Yolo County and purchased a squatter’s right near Woodland. Subsequently he purchased an interest, with William Borden, in a general machine and blacksmith shop in Woodland, and conducted it for three years. Next he was engaged in the manufacture of syrups for two years; and then he started a machine shop, and three years subsequently he and a man named Studenburg bought the Woodland Flouring Mills and ran them two years. In 1868 he sold out, went East on a visit, when he was married to Miss Rachel Williams, a native of Indiana. Returning in 1874 to Woodland, he began running a threshing-machine, and continued with it nine years, when he disposed of that and was employed by the Woodland Water Company in his present position. His wife died in June, 1875, leaving three children: John J., born in May, 1869; Gertrude A., in 1871, and Josephine A., November 8, 1873. Mr. Shryock, when running his machine shop, furnished a great deal of the material for the court-house at Woodland.
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
MRS. CATHARINE JACKSON HUDSON
of Woodland, was the first wife of Eden R. Jackson, a native of Ohio who came to California in 1860, locating upon a ranch about seven miles south of Woodland, where he lived until 1873, when he disposed of the place and purchased property in town. He died December 24, that year, leaving a wife and four children: Halsey G., Andrew, Metta and an unnamed infant now deceased. December 2, 1875, Mrs. Jackson married her present husband, John G. Hudson, who is now engaged in the manufacture of shoes in Oakland. By this marriage there is one son, named Frederick. Mrs. Hudson was born in Ohio in August 13, 1833, and is an estimable lady, moving in the best circles of society.
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
JOHN ABSHIER
foreman of Goble Bros.’ ranch, in Yolo County, is a son of Elizur and Mary (Reed) Abshier, natives of Iowa. His father, a farmer, came to California in 1863. He had four children, of whom John is the youngest. He was born in Lee County, Iowa, in 1863, and was but five months old when his parents crossed the plains to this State, and ever since then he has been a resident of Woodland, of which place also the Goble Bros. are residents. He has always followed agricultural pursuits, and in 1885 took charge of their ranch of 160 acres, where he raises clover principally. His wife, whose maiden name was Parr, is a native of this State, born in 1853, and they have two children, -- Leroy and Lenora.
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler