Yolo County Biographies


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MRS. BARBARA DURST
 
            MRS. BARBARA DURST, manager of a farm near Madison, Yolo County, was 
born in Switzerland, in 1836, daughter of Boldsaer and Anna M. (Swerl) 
Schengler, natives of that country.  Her father in Switzerland was engaged in 
the manufacture of woolens in several establishments for twenty-one years, and 
then he emigrated to the United States and settled in Wisconsin, where he 
followed farming until his death in 1870.  Her mother died in 1876, near 
Cacheville, Yolo County.  In 1859 the subject of this sketch was married in 
Wisconsin, to David Durst, also a native of Switzerland.  In 1869 they came to 
California and located at once on Cache Creek, where Mr. Durst died January 13, 
1884, leaving three children, namely:  John J., who is now aged twenty-seven; 
Willie B., twenty-five and Annie M., twenty-two.  In October, 1887, Mrs. Durst 
changed her residence to her present place, four miles from Madison, on the main 
road to Woodland.  The ranch there contains 160 acres of land, and she also has 
another adjoining on the southeast, containing 240 acres.  The principal product 
of these farms is grain.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891
Transcribed by: Betty Wilson