Napa County Biographies

A. D. BUTLER

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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residing near the head of Brown�s Valley, about four miles from Napa, has an 
orchard of thirty acres, divided as follows:  900 cherries, 900 French prunes, 
900 peaches, the remainder being devoted to a variety of fruits.  These are all 
in bearing.  There was an apple orchard of about 1,000 trees on the ranch, but 
this he is grubbing up, as the codlin moth destroys the crop.  These will be 
replace by other fruits, principally prunes and apricots.  There are 100 acres 
in the ranch, but one-half is hill land, only adapted for grazing purposes and 
furnishing fire-wood.  Mr. Butler purchased this place about seventeen years 
since.  He was born in Monmouth, Illinois, in 1843.  When he was ten years of 
age his parents removed to Oregon, where he assisted his father on his farm and 
attended school until he arrived at man�s estate.  When he was twenty-one he 
returned to Illinois and entered Abingdon College, graduating there in 1865, 
after a course of three years. Returning to Oregon, he taught school for several 
years; coming to California he purchased in 1872 the ranch were he has since 
resided.  He has taught school for about ten years, at intervals, during his 
residence in Napa County.  He was married in 1868, to Miss Nellie Morris, a 
native of Quincy, Illinois, who died in 1879.  There are two children from this 
marriage:  Lena, who is a graduate of the Oregon State Normal School, and has 
been a teacher; and Ralph, who is now in attendance at the same institution.  In 
1886 he married Mrs. Hazzie Garr, a native of Missouri.  He is a member of the 
Masonic order, Yount Lodge, No. 12, and has been a member of the Board of 
Education for six years.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891, pp 568-569