Born in Boone County,
Missouri, March 10, 1826, where he received his education and worked on
a farm until 1850. In that year, on May 1st, in company with
thirteen others, he started across the plains with ox-teams for
California, arriving at Nevada City, September 12th of the same
year. Remaining there only a short time, he went to Deer creek
and followed mining until February 1851; he then proceeded to the
Consumne river and mined there till November 1852 when he came to
Almaden township, Santa Clara county, and purchased his present farm
of one hundred and sixty acres. Married, March 10, 1864, Phoebe
Cairs, by whom there have been a family of five children, three having
died when infants. The names and births of those now living are :
William A., born December 5, 1864; Zadoc S., born March 10, 1874.
Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben
History of Santa Clara County, California
San Francisco: Alley, Bowen & Co., 1881, page 559