California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


ASHLEY, JOEL G. Was born in Pennsylvania August 2, 1831. When he was six years of age he, with his 
grandfather, moved to Wisconsin, where thirteen years were spent. While here he learned the 
carpenter's trade. In 1850 he came to California, and spent about four years in the mines ; then 
engaged in butchering, which he followed at different places until 1860. He then went to the 
Humboldt Mines in Nevada, where mining was followed for about two years. We next find Mr. Ashley 
engaged in butchering in Folsom, Sacramento County, for about one year. He then engaged in 
carpentering at Colfax, Placer County, until 1869, when he came to Lake County. After residing on 
rented farms for about four years, he settled on his present place, consisting of one hundred and 
seventy-eight acres, located about seven and one-half miles south of Lower Lake. Here he is engaged 
in farming and wool growing. Mr. Ashley married January 1, 1860, Miss Catherine S. Whiteside, a native 
of Illinois. They have four living children : William I., Alice M., Charles R., and Ida M., and have lost one, 
David B.