Yolo County Biographies

WATSON BARNES

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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Watson Barnes, an agriculturist in the northwestern part of Yolo County, was 
born January 2, 1844, in Boston, Massachusetts.  His father, Silas P. Barnes, a 
native of New Hampshire and a farmer and stock-raiser by occupation, came to 
California in 1854.  He was engaged in farming and stock-raising after 1851; 
previous to that he was engaged in the mercantile business in the city of 
Boston, Massachusetts, for some thirty years.  The mother, whose maiden name was 
Olive Chapman, was a native of the State of Maine.  Both parents were of English 
ancestry.  Mr. Barnes, senior, arrived in Salt Lake City in July, 1851, and 
three years later came on to California, soon locating in Yolo County, where 
Black�s is now situated, and died April 11, 1888, leaving four children, and 
property worth about $100,000.  Mr. Barnes, the subject of this notice, owns 525 
acres of finely improved land about five and a half miles northwest of Black�s.  
He was married in Woodland, July 15, 1880, to Miss M. J. Houx, who was born in 
1854, in California.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891