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


BURKE, W. P. Was born in Gentry County, Missouri, July 29, 1850. In 1854 his parents crossed the plains 
to California. After spending about five years in the mines in Tuolumne County, they moved to Santa 
Cruz County, where three years were spent in farming. In the fall of 1862 they came to Lake County, 
rented land for two years, and then settled in Bachelor Valley, where the father still lives, being 
engaged in farming. In 1867 the subject of this sketch began farming on his own account in Bachelor 
Valley, where he resided until the fall of 1880, when he settled on his present place, consisting of one 
hundred and sixty acres, located about two and one-half miles west from Lakeport, where he is 
engaged in company with D. V. Conner in wool growing. Mr. Burke is a strong believer in the doctrine 
of Seventh Day Adventists, especially in the observance of the seventh day of the week as the. 
Sabbath. He thinks labor honorable and work ennobling. Was married March 7, 1867, to Miss Massena 
A. Reese, a native of Texas.