Solano County Biographies

GEORGE W. TROUTMAN

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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was born in Hardin county, Kentucky, March, 1836, where he received his 
education. At the age of eighteen went to Illinois, and until the spring of 1855 
followed farming, when he emigrated to California, and settled in Sierra county, 
there working in the mines until August, 1861; he then came to this county and 
purchased a tract of land, between Vacaville and Elmira, which he worked till 
the spring of 1866, next moving to Vacaville, and from there on to property 
bought by him in Gibson Canon, where he resided from 1874 to 1876. He afterwards 
disposed of this tract and purchased an adjoining piece on the south, containing 
ninety-three acres, upon which he now has his residence.  Married May 15, 1872, 
Miss Essie Gamble, who was born in Beloit, Rock county, Wis., in December, 1854, 
and has one child living, Susan Irean, born July 22, 1875.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 465