Lake County Biographies

WILBURN SMITH

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Was born in North Carolina, February 17, 1824.  At the age of fourteen he went 
to Missouri, and from there visited Texas and New Mexico.  In 1850 he crossed 
the plains to California, arriving at Sacramento in August.  He spent his first 
eighteen months in the mines, and then returned to Sacramento and worked on a 
ferry boat for about eighteen months.  The next two years were spent in Yolo 
County, and the following four years in Green Valley, Solano County.  A year was 
spent at teaming in Nevada, and eighteen months at farming in the same State.  
He then returned to Yolo County, and followed farming for three years.  In the 
spring of 1869 he came to Lake County, and settled in Bachelor Valley, where he 
now owns three hundred and twenty acres of land, and is engaged in farming.  He 
was married, May 30, 1858, to Miss Abbie Linder.  They have one living child, 
Sarah E., and have lost three:  Fannie, Richard and Carrie M.
 
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California, publ. 1881 � pg. 277-278