Yolo County Biographies


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JEPHTHA JEANS
 
     Jephtha Jeans, dealer in fresh meats at Winters, Yolo County, is a son of 
B. F. Jeans.  Both his parents were natives of Kentucky, and he was born in Pike 
County, Missouri, June 28, 1842.  In 1866, he came overland to California, 
stopping at Vacaville two months and then locating at Smith�s Landing, where he 
purchased a band of dairy cows, drove them to the Humboldt River, and wintered 
there, but in the spring of 1860 went to Idaho and ran a dairy for three and a 
half months.  Disposing of his stock there he returned to Vacaville and was 
engaged in the butcher business there three years, when he sold out, in 1875, 
and located in Winters, where he now conducts a neat butcher shop, or meat 
market, doing a good business.  The town of Winters was started during the 
spring preceeding the autumn in which he settled there.
     He was married in Solano County in 1874 to Miss A. Starks, and they have 
four children, named Frank L., Ida, Mabel and Robert H.  She died in 1881 and he 
afterward married Mrs. Swan and by this marriage there is one child, Veda by 
name.    
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California
The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Page 655
Transcribed by: Christine Helmick