Santa Cruz County Biographies

JAMES WILLIAMSON

Submitted by Kathy Sedler

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        James Williamson is the pioneer partner of the firm of Williamson & 
Garrett, wholesale and retail dealers in general merchandise in the city of 
Santa Cruz.
        Mr. Williamson was born in Dumfrieshire, Scotland, in 1820. He lived in 
Scotland until he was twenty years old, and then, on the twenty-third day of 
April, 1849, on the schooner Pera, left his native land for the western coast of 
America. The vessel on which he sailed called at Gibraltar, at the Islands of 
St. Catherine, and also at Valparaiso, and in December, 1849, landed him in San 
Francisco. Soon after his arrival in California Mr. Williamson went to the 
Southern California mines, on the Yuba River.
        He followed the business of mining with variable success until the year 
1866, and then engaged in the mercantile business in the town of Marysville. 
Here he continued until 1870, and then removed to San Francisco, and after six 
years' residence there came to Santa Cruz, where he has ever since made his home 
and ever will continue to.
 
HISTORY OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.-  E. S. Harrison, 
Pacific Press Publ. Co., San Francisco, 1891