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


BOLE, E. B. Was born in Morgan County, Ohio, June 12, 1825. When eleven years of age he, with his 
parents, moved to Elkhart County, Indiana, where they followed farming. In 1852 the subject of this 
sketch crossed the plains with ox-teams to California, arriving at Placerville August 15th of the above 
year. The first three months after his arrival were spent in mining, after which he settled on a farm on 
the Cosumnes River, in Sacramento County. Here he farmed until February, 1858, when he came to 
Lake County and settled on his present place, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres, located about 
two miles south from Kelseyville, in Big Valley, where he is engaged in the nursery and fruit business. 
Mr. Bole married November 12, 1846, Miss Phoebe D. Corpe, by whom he had three children, Emma 
A., Henry W. and Newton S., of which the two last named are dead. He married, secondly, August 22, 
1858, Miss Mary J. Hammack, a native of Missouri. They have five living children : Albert G., Harriet A., 
Mary E., Frances A., and Martha J., and have lost one, Willie.