Butte County Biographies

JOHN M. VANDERHOOF

Transcribed by:  Betty Wilson

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son of John and Betsey E. Vanderhoof, was born in the town 
of Phelps, Ontario county, New York, December 27, 1829.  His boyhood days were 
spent in school and on the farm.  In 1852, he emigrated to California, and 
engaged in mining at Forbestown, Yankee flat and other places on the south fork. 
 After seven years he quit mining and began to team from the Sacramento valley 
to various places in and beyond the mountains.  In 1870, he purchased the dairy 
and stock-ranch, on which he now lives.  It consists of about 700 acres.,  He 
was married on the fourteenth of February, 1876, to Louisa L. Hartman, daughter 
of George and Elizabeth Hartman,.  He is a member of the order of Odd Fellows at 
Oroville, and of the encampment; also, of the A.O.U.W., and of a branch of the 
same order, known as the Guarantee Fund Association.  A view of the residence 
can be seen in this volume.
 
History of Butte County, California: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present 
Time - Vol. II -  Harry L. Wells & W. L. Chambers - 547 Clay Street, San 
Francisco, Cal., 1882.