Sacramento County Biographies

JEFFERSON FRANKLIN  WILCOXSON

Transcribed by Deana Schultz.

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	Was a California pioneer in 1849, and was a man who 
wielded large and benignant influence in connection with the civic and material 
development and upbuilding of Sacramento, the fair capital city of the state.
Mr. WILCOXSON, in company with his brother Jackson and a man named STOVALL, set 
forth from Carrollton, Missouri, on the long and hazardous journey across the 
plains to California, and after many hardships they arrived in the �land of 
promise� in 1849, the year that marked the historic discovery of gold in 
California.  Jefferson F. WILCOXSON engaged in the brokerage business, and 
eventually he became the owner of a large amount of California real estate, he 
having been associated with Mr. STOVALL in the ownership of one of the finest 
ranches in the Sacramento Valley, in Colusa County, a domain known as the 
STOVALL-WILCOXSON Ranch.  Mr. WILCOXSON was long and appreciatively affiliated 
with the Masonic fraternity, and his funeral was held under Masonic offices, his 
death having occurred in April, 1898.  Mr. WILCOXSON remained a bachelor until 
the close of his life, and his large estate in California was inherited by his 
nephews and nieces, the children of three of his brothers.

Source: "The San Francisco Bay Region" Vol. 3 page 262 by Bailey Millard. 
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc. 1924.