Colusa County Biographies

I. V. DEVENPECK

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            This prosperous and much-respected citizen of Willows was born in 
Montgomery County, New York, in 1830.  He came to California in 1852, remained 
five years and then returned to the East.  He came to Colusa County in 1875, 
locating near Willows when that town was a broad wheat-field, and has made it 
his home ever since.  He owns a large ranch of ten hundred and seventy acres, 
two and a half miles northwest of Willows, which yields him a handsome income 
from the production of grain and the raising of stock.  His residence at Willows 
is among the largest and most comfortable of the many elegant homes of that 
place.  Mr. Devenpeck, surrounded by his family of four children, can pass the 
evening of his active life here in happiness and contentment.
 
�Colusa County� � by Justus H. Rogers � Orland, CA � 1891 � pp 453