Colusa County Biographies

W. T. TROXEL

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            This thrifty farmer and pioneer of the State, who resides nearly 
five miles southeast of Elk Creek, was born in Illinois in the year 1834.  He 
received a common education and spent the early years of his life on a farm.  He 
reached California in 1854 and was engaged in teaming for some time in Placer 
County.  In 1870 he arrived at Colusa County and was occupied in farming near 
Willows till 1886, when he removed to his present farm, of two hundred and five 
acres, which he cultivates with industry and success.  Mr. Troxel was married in 
1867 to Miss Eliza Johnson, of Solano County, and has a family of seven 
children.
 
�Colusa County� � by Justus H. Rogers � Orland, CA � 1891 � pp 461