Solano County Biographies

JAMES H. HUMPHREYS

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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of Cordelia, was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky October 9, 1824.  He received his 
early education in Georgetown in that State, and in 1839 removed to Hannibal, 
Missouri, with his parents.  Ten years later he emigrated to California, and 
prosecuted mining for two years at Placerville and vicinity.  In the years 
1851-�53 he was in trade in El Dorado county, and in the following year he 
located on the Sacramento and Placerville road and dealt in hay and grain.  In 
1855 Mr. Humphreys moved to Folsom, and there acted as agent for the Natoma 
Ditch Company for five years.  In 1860 he went into business in Lincoln, Placer 
county; in 1863 moved to Colfax; thence, in 1865, to Sisco, Placer county, from 
which place he went to Truckee in 1868, and in 1872 located in Cordelia, where 
he has since prosecuted his trade, selling dry goods.  Is postmaster of the 
district.  He married, October 1858, Katherine Sullivan, who was born in Boston 
December 19, 1840, by whom he has:  Alice M., born 1859; Katie, born 1861; Harry 
J., born 1863; Daisy, born 1868; Maggie, born 1871; Charles, born 1874, and 
Frank, born 1876.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 432-433