Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

J. AUGUSTUS WILKINSON

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            An especially worth pioneer whom Californians will long delight to 
honor, and whose unaffected record must become a part of the history of the 
Golden State, was the late J. Augustus Wilkinson, who hailed from Michigan, 
coming from Edwardsburg across the great plains by ox-team in the famous 
Argonaut year of 1849.  He mined at Dog Town; and having made his pile, he 
returned East and married Miss Emily Louise Heddon, a popular lady of Cass 
County, Mich., who was born in Rock Island, Ill., on January 13, 1839 and 
brought with her to the West the womanly virtues of her Illinois home.
            The happy couple came out to California by way of Panama, in 1864, 
and bought 160 acres of ranch land near Harty Corners, just north of Yuba City.  
They cultivated the tract; and after bringing it up to a high state of 
productivity, they sold the property and moved to Live Oak, many years ago.  For 
thirteen years Mr. Wilkinson was postmaster of Live Oak, and he was also justice 
of the peace.  In politics an influential Republican, he became very well and 
favorably known in Sutter County as a most progressive man; and when he breathed 
his last, on October 4, 1914, his passing was widely recognized as a district 
loss to his community.  A son, George Courtland Wilkinson, has also passed away, 
after an enviable record.
            Following the demise of her husband, Mrs. Wilkinson remarried; and 
the later story of her life is given in the review of her second husband, Alfred 
Greet, which also forms a part of this historical work.

History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p.  538