Yolo County Biographies


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J. B. RUMSEY, JR.
 
J. B. RUMSEY, JR., a farmer near Woodland, is a son of J. B. and Mary Rumsey.  
His father, a native of Vermont, died when the son was a small boy, in Miami 
County, Ohio; and his mother, a native of Pennsylvania, died in Yolo County, in 
1886, leaving four children.  The subject of this sketch was born in Miami 
County, Ohio, in 1884, and came to California in 1857, stopping first in Santa 
Clara County.  Six months afterward he went to the Southern mines, followed 
mining there a year, and then was in various localities until 1865, when he 
settled upon his present place of 120 acres two and one-half miles directly west 
of Woodland, where he raised wheat mostly, but has forty acres in vineyard.  For 
his wife he married Margaret Ogden, who was born in Illinois, and their children 
are Jennie M., Lewis W., and Elmer and Alvin, twins.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891
Transcribed by:  Wendy Sandino