Yolo County Biographies


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JACOB GUYSI
 
            JACOB GUYSI, a Yolo County farmer, is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio 
born November 26, 1827.  His parents were natives of Switzerland.  His father 
was born in 1774 and his mother in 1784.  They came to the United States when 
young and were married in Philadelphia about 1819, and raised a family of seven 
children.  Jacob, the fourth, received his education in the public schools of 
Cincinnati.  He left home March 7, 1849, and went to New York city, where he 
took passage on the bark Rising Sun for San Francisco via Cape Horn.
            The bark was fitted out by a company of 100 men to come to 
California to engage in mining.  They took about twenty passengers, who paid 
$250 each for their tickets.  They landed at San Francisco September 10th, 
having been 165 days on the ocean.  Mr. Guysi remained a few days at San 
Francisco, then went to Auburn, Placer County, where he engaged in mining for 
the winter.  In the spring of 1850 he went to Sacramento, where he worked at 
putting up iron buildings for a time.  He also brought an interest in a sloop, 
which was used for carrying freight and passengers between Sacramento and 
Marysville.  In the fall of 1850 he returned to Auburn and resumed work in the 
mines on the same ground that he had left in the spring.  In March, 1851, he 
sold his mining interests at Auburn and went to the east branch of the north 
fork of Feather River, where he mined on Rich Bar till about the first of July.  
He then came to Yolo County and bought out a squatter, who had settled on land 
nine miles southwest of Sacramento.  He now owns 320 acres of good land, and is 
engaged in raising grain and stock.
            He was married in 1878 to Mrs. Morgan, a native of Ireland.  They 
have five children:  Charles, George, Henry, Robert and William.  Mrs. Guysi is 
the mother of one child, resulting from her first marriage, Frederick Morgan.  
Mr. Guysi has a fine property, with good improvements, which is rapidly 
increasing in value.  In politics he has always been identified with the 
Republican party.
 
Source:  Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, Lewis 
Publishing Co. , 1891
Transcribed by:  Betty Wilson, August 2004  �