Mendocino County Biographies

Taylor Howard

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	Was born in McDonald county, Missouri, January 22, 1848, when he 
was about eight years of age his parents came to California, crossing the plains 
with ox-teams. They arrived in San Joaquin county in the fall of 1856, where 
they resided about one year. They then moved to Sonoma county, and settled near 
Geyserville. In the fall of 1858, they came to Mendocino county, and settled 
about three miles from Ukiah where the elder Mr. Howard still resides. Taylor 
Howard remained with his parents till 1876, when he purchased and settled upon 
his present place consisting of six hundred and forty acres, in company with W. 
W. Moore. Here they are engaged in wool-growing, having about one thousand two 
hundred head of sheep. Mr. Howard married, August 22, 1875, Miss Katie Chase, a 
native of California.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp.  583