Colusa County Biographies

MARK BAILEY

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            This gentleman is a native of Moreland, Schuyler County, New York, 
born in the year 1833.  He followed farming when a lad in his native State, and 
afterwards learned the trade of machinist, in Elmira, New York.  After 
completing his apprenticeship, he lived for a short time in Iowa, and then in 
Faribault, Minnesota.  He started for California in April, 1860, and arrived at 
Sacramento five months later.  He first located at You Bet, Nevada County, 
conducting a butchering business for three years, and in the summer of 1863 he 
returned to his native State.  While on this trip he was married, in 1864, to 
Miss Lucy W. Stevens, of his own native county of Schuyler.  He returned to 
California in 1867 and settled at the headquarters of the Nome Lackee Indian 
Reservation, but afterwards moved to Paskenta, and finally located permanently 
in this county in 1873, settling on the Brown ranch, at Newville, containing 
twelve hundred and sixty acres of land, mostly grazing, with some bottom land, 
which produces large crops of grain.  His chief occupation is in raising horses, 
cattle, hogs and sheep.
 
�Colusa County� � by Justus H. Rogers � Orland, CA � 1891 � pp 399