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


JOHN CONNER.   Son of William and Amelia Cheny Conner, was born in Miami County, Indiana, 
December 8,1846. He remained in his birthplace until he was twenty-one years of age, and was 
educated at the common schools of that place. He then, with his parents, left the farm they had 
resided on for thirty-seven years, and moved west, first settling in Labette County, Kansas, and began 
the general merchandise business in Labette City, remaining there for some years. In the fall of 1874 
the subject of this sketch came to California and came immediately to Napa County, locating in 
Calistoga, where he secured a situation as clerk, which position he held for two and a half years. He 
worked for the Clear Lake Stage Company for eighteen months, and then started in his present 
business of livery and feed stable, near the depot in Calistoga. He was united in marriage January 12, 
18--, to Miss Jerusha Bollevine, a native of Licken County, Ohio, born April 27, 1853, and by this union 
they have three children: Walter E., born October 21, 1874; Daniel E., born December 11, 1878; Daisy, 
born March 28, 1880.