Yolo County Biographies


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C. D. MORIN
 
C. D. Morin, dealer in tin and hardware at Woodland, is the son of John and 
Julia (Brandmore) Morin, natives of Canada.  His father was a cooper by trade, 
for a time held the office of inspector of potash, and died when C. D. was a 
small boy, in Montreal, Canada; and the mother died in Brockville, Upper Canada. 
 Mr. Morin was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1832, and at the age of seventeen 
years he began to learn the trade of tinner in Brockville, Canada, with John 
Lafayette.  In 1852 he went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he was employed nine 
months, and then he came overland to California, stopping, however, at North 
Platte and Fort Laramie, where he was engaged for a time in trading with the 
Indians.  He came that far with a band of sheep owned by Z. Rochon.  He arrived 
in Sacramento in 1853 and followed mining one summer season at Salmon Falls on 
the American River; next he followed his trade a year at Sacramento; then mined 
again one year at Indian Diggings; returning to Sacramento again, he remained 
there until 1858, when he went to Fraser River, during the first flush of 
excitement from that quarter, and for a short time was employed there by a man 
named Bragg.  He spent a month in the mines, and returned to Sacramento, stopped 
there four months, and then for eight months he worked for M. Winchell at 
Cacheville., Yolo County, in the tin business, and he then bought him out.  
After conducting the business there for seven years he moved to Woodland, where 
he has succeeded well in business, and being one of the prominent citizens of 
the place.  He has a nice residence on Court street.  He is a member of Woodland 
Lodge, No. 22, A.O.U.W.
 
Mr. Morin married Miss Minnie B. Schindler, a daughter of David Schindler, born 
in Wisconsin, and they have three children:  Mattie M., aged twenty-two years, 
and Minnie M., aged twenty years.  Mattie is a music teacher, and Minnie is a 
dressmaker.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler