El Dorado County Biographies


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JOHN L. HOUX
 
            Is a native of Missouri, where he was born on the 20th of February, 
1849, is a son of Leonard and Sarah L. (Tebbs) Houx.  In 1852 his parents 
crossed the plains to California and settled near Black�s station in Yolo 
county, where John L. lived until 1877, when he came to El Dorado county and 
purchased his present home, known as the Bugby farm, located on the stage road 
leading from Sacramento and Folsom to Placerville.  The farm comprises 220 
acres.  On the place is one of the oldest vineyards in the county of about 
20,000 vines. He was married March 25th, 1875, to Miss Mary Viola Gray, a 
daughter of Allen T. Gray, the pioneer settler of Gray�s Flat.  They have two 
children, Ensley L., born November 26th, 1876, on the homestead, Gray�s Flat, 
and Eliza j., born July 2d, 1880, on their present home.  Mr. Houx is part owner 
in the recently discovered quartz mines known as the Houx mine and Sailor Jack, 
and also interested with his brother in an extensive drug store in Folsom.  From 
1874 to 1882, in company with two other brothers carried on a wheat ranch of 
about 6,000 acres in Colusa county.  There is a family of nine children, 
brothers and sisters of Mr. Houx�s.  They are a family of successful business 
habits and none of them more so than the subject of our sketch.
 
Historical Souvenir of El Dorado County, California with Illustrations & 
Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men & Pioneers - Oakland, Cal. - Paolo 
Sioli, Publisher, 1883. p - 248
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler