Mendocino County Biographies

T. W. Dashiell

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	Was born in Maryland, January 18, 1818. Here he received his 
education and studied law. He resided on a farm until nineteen years of age, 
when, leaving his parents, he went to Texas where he bought two thousand two 
hundred acres of land, on which he built a saw-mill. After remaining here for 
two years, he went to Mississippi, where he followed teaching for about two 
years, after which he spent about eight months in his native State, and then 
returned to Mississippi, where he taught until 1848, when he again returned to 
Maryland, and in the spring of 1849, we find him crossing the plains to 
California, in company with seven others. They arrived at Sacramento in 
September of the above-mentioned year. The subject of this sketch went at once 
to the mines, where he followed mining until the spring of 1853, when he engaged 
with his cousin, W. A. Dashiell, at Sacramento, in the horse market business. 
Here he remained one year, then moved to Sonoma county and bought a ranch in 
Blutcher valley, where he followed farming until 1857, when he went to Los 
Angeles where he remained but a short time; then returned to Sonoma county and 
engaged in butchering at Windsor until 1859, when he came to Mendocino county 
and located in Potter valley, where he has since resided. Mr. Dashiell was a 
member of the Board of Supervisors for four years, and Deputy Assessor two 
terms. He married September 1, 1851, Miss Kezia J. Vann. She died February 10, 
1876, leaving seven children, Addie, James, Cyntha, Thaddeus, Robert, William, 
and Margaret.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 564, 565