Solano County Biographies

MATHIAS WOLFSKILL

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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was born in Howard county, Mo., August 11, 1810, where he resided for forty 
years, when, on May 16, 1850, he, with his family, left for California, and, 
enduring the hardships of a journey across the plains, arrived at the ranch of 
his brother, John R. Wolfskill, on Putah Creek, on September 30th of that year, 
and resided on the banks of that stream until he moved to his present property 
in Suisun township, in the fall of 1866.  His ranch comprises seven hundred 
acres.  He married, September 1, 1831, Permelia Ashcroft, by whom he has two 
children alive, John, a resident of San Diego county, and Joseph C., who resides 
with his father.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 429-430