Sonoma County Biographies

JOHN N. McCLISH

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, July, 2007.

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

                    A native of Davis County, Iowa, born December 4, 1850. When 
about four years of age his parents emigrated to California, crossing the plains 
with ox-teams. Arrived in Santa Rosa, October 21, 1854, where they remained 
about two and a half months, and then took up their residence about two miles 
from Healdsburg, on the west side of Russian River. Here the subject of this 
sketch was reared, and received his education at the Sotoyome Institute at 
Healdsburg. In 1871, he purchased a farm adjoining his fathers; married May 
1,1872, Miss Ella M. Martin, who was born in Illinois,  September 16, 1853. In 
the spring of 1876, Mr. McClish and family took a trip to the Centennial 
Exhibition at Philadelphia, and also visited several other noted points, 
returning after an absence of two months. John M., Josiah T., and Ella N., are 
the names of their children.
 
Source: "History of Sonoma County, Cal.," Alley, Bowen & Co., San Francisco, 
1880, p. 510.