Sonoma County Biographies

ISAAC GUM

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, July, 2007

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

                      Born in Henry County, Indiana, February 23, 1835. When 
about five years of age, he with his parents moved to Boone County, Illinois, 
where he resided until 1854, when he emigrated to California, crossing the 
plains with ox teams, and arrived in this county September 27th of the same 
year. After farming on Dry Creek for six years, he went to Virginia City and 
followed teaming for one summer, after which he speculated in mines until 1865, 
when he returned to this county and farmed until 1870. He then moved into 
Healdsburg, where he has resided ever since. Mr. Gum is largely interested in 
the Great Eastern quicksilver mine of this county. Married Miss Clara Zane, 
December 14, 1865. Willie, Schulyer C., John and Nellie, deceased, are the names 
of their children.
 
Source: "History of Sonoma County, Cal.," Alley, Bowen & Co., San Francisco, 
1880, p. 508.