Solano County Biographies

CLINTON KERBY

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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was born in Green county, East Tennessee, June 8, 1826. His parents moved to 
Jackson county, Missouri, where Mr. Kerby was educated.  In 1850 he emigrated to 
California, crossing the plains, arriving in Sacramento, September 22d, of that 
year; went to Drytown, in Amador county, and kept a hotel about three months.  
He afterwards opened a hotel in Ione valley, which he conducted until December 
5, 1851, when he returned to the East via Panama.  May, 1852, he again crossed 
the plains to this State, bringing 350 head of cattle, and arrived in Sacramento 
the following September.  He kept his cattle in Sacramento county until the fall 
of 1855, when he took them to Sonoma county, and, after two years, brought them 
to this county.  In the fall of 1858 he bought 1,700 acres of land, situated 
about four miles south from Denverton, where he now resides.  On April 15, 1873, 
he married Miss Emily A. Johnson, who was born in Wayne county, Ohio, July 20, 
1843. Their children are Clinton and James H., who were born in Sacramento, 
California:  Clinton, August 15, 1877; James H., December 30, 1878.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 483