Napa County Biographies

DENNIS McVICKER

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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            The fine ranch belonging to Colonel J. D. Fry of San Francisco, 
situated near Yountville, Napa County, has been under Mr. McVicker�s management 
for over twelve years, and its present high state of cultivation and fine 
appearance is due to his care.  He is moreover a practical horse-breeder, taking 
an enthusiastic interest in the Colonel�s fine stud horses under his charge, and 
breeding the fast animals that have made the stud famous, such as Arab, out of 
Arithon, dam Lady Hamilton, and other well-known horses.  He is also engaged in 
rearing Holstein and short-horn Durham cattle and Southdown sheep.
            Mr. McVicker was born in Napanee, Canada, in 1851, where his father, 
John McVicker, is a farmer.  He left there in 1868, when nineteen years of age, 
and has resided almost constantly in California since, engaged entirely in the 
business of horse breeding and raising, sometimes on his own account and at 
other times in the employment of others.  For four years he was with Mr. Tallant 
in Wheatland, for two years with Mr. Jasper, and then at San Jose with Frank 
Malone, as also in Sacramento and elsewhere for himself.  He owns some property 
in Sacramento, which he is improving, and is an active, energetic and 
thoroughgoing man in all he undertakes.  He was married to Miss Annie McLennan, 
in San Francisco, in 1886.  They have one child.
 
SOURCE:  Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1891. pg. 336.