Amador County Biographies

N. C. WILLIAMS

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Is a native of the State of Maine, having been born at Embden, Somerset county, January 20, 1834. His 
life was passed in the town where he first saw the light, until he reached the age of sixteen years. He 
had acquired a good education during these years, and in 1850 left home and obtained a situation in the 
city of Boston, Massachusetts, where he remained about three years as clerk in a ship yard. 

As youth ripened into manhood, he aspired to something different from the old routine to which he 
was accustomed, and fired with enthusiasm from the reports of people on the Pacific coast, he determined 
to ascertain personally what Dame Fortune had in store for him in that region; accordingly with the 
thought came the action, and in 1855 he bade fare well to his eastern friends and sought new ones in 
California, arriving in San Francisco in due time, by way of the Isthmus of Panama. 

His first permanent location was in Amador county, where he has since resided, with the exception of 
one year, during which he visited his old home in the States. His occupation for the fifteen years of his 
California life, was in the usual vocation of mining; but upon his return from the States he engaged 
in various kinds of business. 

In 1871 he settled on his present ranch, which is located on the Pine Grove and Antelope toll-road, 
fourteen miles east of Jackson. He is very pleasantly situated, and is a gentleman esteemed by all 
who have the honor of his acquaintance. He was married May 13, 1874, to Miss Rosella Worley. 

History of Amador, California With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches 
of its Prominent Men and PioneersOakland, California, Thompson and West, 
1881.