Yolo County Biographies


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GEORGE W. and WILLIAM F. OLIVER
 
GEORGE W. and WILLIAM F. OLIVER, two young farmers well known throughout Yolo 
County, are natives of Missouri and the sons of James and Louise Ann (Yornnell) 
Oliver.  Their father was born in Kentucky, in 1807, and has been a farmer all 
his life; their mother is a native of Missouri, and they are still living, about 
two miles from their sons.  The family came to California overland in 1859, 
having a weary voyage of five months.  First they rented 200 acres of land in 
Sacramento County and worked upon it two years.  They next moved to a point of 
the upper Stockton road, five miles southeast of Sacramento, and remained there 
but one year; then they went into Yolo County and the first year rented a tract 
of land, and finally, in 1882, entered the quarter section where they now 
reside, three miles from Woodland.  At present there are eighty acres, which is 
principally devoted to the raising of grain, and a moderate quantity of fruit.
            George W. Oliver was born in 1837; William F. Oliver was born in 
1851, and in 1885 married Miss Mary Billings, in Yolo County, and their children 
are Elma L. and Daisy E.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891
Transcribed by: Betty Wilson