Solano County Biographies

ORRIN F. PULSIFER

Transcribed by: Bonnie Phelan

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ORRIN F. PULSIFER, agent at Vallejo for the Port Costa Lumber Company, 
has been a resident of California since April 9, 1875. The Vallejo depot is the 
point of supply for the Napa Valley, the Sonoma Valley, and also to some extent 
the Sacramento Valley. This yard also ships considerable lumber to Southern 
California, Arizona, New Mexico, and even as far as Texas on the south and the 
Missouri River in the East. They have received orders for redwood lumber even 
from Buffalo, New York. They carry a stock of about 4,000,000 feet of various 
grades and sizes of lumber. All the pine comes from Puget Sound, the redwood 
from the coast counties, mostly from Humboldt and Mendocino counties.
      Mr. Pulsifer was born in Pittston, Kennebec County, Maine, in 1852, and at 
the age of thirteen years was thrown upon his own responsibility. For a short 
time he followed the sea, and the various occupations. Two years he was clerk in 
a hardware store, several years in the ice business, and then for a time he was 
engaged in lumbering in Florida in the employ of Swift Bro., of New Bedford, who 
were getting out live-oak timber for the United States Navy. In 1875 he came to 
California, engaged in railroading for a year and a half and since then in his 
present business of lumbering, for about ten years with Pope & Talbot, of San 
Francisco and Vallejo, and later for their successors, the Port Costa Lumber 
Company, being for the past year in charge of their business at this point. He 
is a member of Solano Lodge, No. 229, F.& A.M., of Vallejo, of Pacific Lodge, 
No.155, I.O.O.F., of San Francisco, and of the A.O.U.W.
      He was married in 1885 to Miss Mary H. Rutherford, a native of California, 
and they have two children, Jennie R. and Elizabeth M. 
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California The Lewis Publishing Co., 
1891, Page 605