Mendocino County Biographies

John W. McCloud

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	Born in Franklin county, Ohio, March 9, 1820, and at the age of 
seventeen he, with his parents, moved to Illinois, where they resiede about four 
years, and then moved to Iowa, where the subject of this sketch learned the 
cooper�s trade, which he followed until March, 1850, when he, leaving his 
parents, crossed the plains with ox-teams, arriving at Steep Hollow September 
6th. Here he remained about two weeks, and then went to Napa county, where he 
followed farming and stock-raising until 1857, when he returned, via Panama, to 
Iowa, and remained a few months.  He then returned, via same route, to 
California and came direct to Mendocino county and, after spending the winter at 
Sanel, settled in Potter valley, where he has since resided, being engaged in 
stock-raising. He married, July 6, 1874, Miss Mattie Van Nader. They have one 
child, Lewis C.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 568