Mendocino County Biographies

William Fulwider

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this 
work, was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, April 5, 1832. At his birthplace 
he received a common school education, and resided till the spring of 1852 when 
he came via Cape Horn to California, arriving in the Golden State in August of 
that year. He immediately proceeded to Trinity county and began mining near 
Weaverville, which business he followed in that vicinity till the spring of 
1856, when in May of that year he came to Mendocino county, and settled on his 
present place of three hundred and twenty acres. In June, 1856, he went to the 
Fraser River excitement, and was absent one year, when he again returned to his 
home in this valley, and has since resided here. Married in October, 1860, and 
has nine children, Robert H. born December 27, 1861; Sarah F., November 18, 
1863; Mary J., September 10, 1865; John W., February 12, 1867; Theodore E., 
November 9, 1868; Lucine E., September 29, 1870; Ella F., October 14, 1872; 
Augustus C., February 8, 1875; Laura E., December 25, 1876.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp.  582