Mendocino County Biographies

D. G. Pitner

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	Born in East Tennessee, May 24, 1829. When seven years of age he, 
with his parents, moved to Georgia, where the subject of this sketch lived on a 
farm until 1848, when, leaving his parents, he went back to Tennessee, where he 
was engaged as overseer on a large plantation until 1855, when he came, via 
Panama, to California, arriving at San Francisco in September. After spending 
about two years in the mines we find him speculating in hogs and cattle in 
Calaveras county, which he followed until 1865, when he bought a farm near 
Healdsburg, Sonoma county, where he remained one year. He then came to  
Mendocino county and settled on his present place, consisting of two hundred and 
forty-three acres, located about two miles north from Ukiah, where he is engaged 
in farming and speculating in stock. Mr. Pitner married, in August, 1866, Miss 
Cordelia Williams, a native of Missouri. They have three children: Lether N., 
Ellen F., and Elzena G.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 661, 662