California Biographies Transcribed by Peggy Hooper This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm Source: History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from its earliest settlement to the present time. Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M. The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905 Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176 QUINTIS VERNILE PLEASANT DAY. During the progress of the Mexican war Pleas- ant Day, who had been a farmer in Missouri, enlisted in the service and was given employ- ment as a teamster, going to the front, where he remained until his death. Before entering the army he had engaged in farm pursuits in Buchanan county, Mo., where his wife and three children were left at the time of his departure for the front. His wife, who had been Ver- linda Linville, was born in Jackson county, Mo., being a daughter of Rev. Zachariah Linville, a farmer and also a minister in the Christian Church. During the great emigration to Cali- fornia in 1849 Mr. Linville joined a party of gold-seekers, whom he accompanied across the plains. He prospected in mines near Placerville until his death, which occurred the same year. After the death of her first husband Mrs. Day became the wife of Daniel Dunnegan, with whom in 1857 she crossed the plains to California and settled on a farm in Sonoma county, thence removed to Yolo county, where Mr. Dunnegan died at Woodland. His widow is now making her home in Lake county. Of her first marriage there were two children who attained mature years, namely: Q. V. P., who resides in the suburbs of Dinuba ; and Tenicia Eveline, Mrs. Thompson, of Lake county. In Buchanan county, Mo., where he was born February 4. 1843. Q. V. P. Day passed the years of childhood, from there going to Mills county, Iowa, in 1855, and in 1857 crossing the plains with a company who spent seven months en route. While on the Humboldt they were at- tacked by Indians and the eleven men forming the train bravely kept back the red men until help arrived. In Sonoma county Mr. Day attended Santa Rosa Seminary, and in 1850 be- came one of the first students in Hesperian College at Woodland, where he remained a stu- dent a part of two years. On taking up work for himself he clerked in a Woodland store, where he remained for eighteen months. His next venture was the purchase of a stock oi groceries. Later he also carried on a livery business, but this he sold after one year. At Wood- land, October 13, 1868, he married Araminda Giddings, a native of Wisconsin, being a daugh- ter of Edwin Giddings, who crossed the plains in 1852 and for seven years served as clerk of Yolo county. The year following his marriage Mr. Day removed to Stanislaus county and set- tled on a ranch near Grayson, where he engaged in the stock business. Later he took up mer- chandising in Lake county, where he had a store at Middletown for three years and at Lakeport for several years. While there he held the office of treasurer of Lake county for one term of two years. In the fall of 1890 he came to Tulare county and settled one and one-half miles southeast of Dinuba, where he has an orchard of five acres. At the same time, while managing his little homestead, he carries on an insurance and real estate business in town. His two chil- dren, Mrs. Maude Redpath and Mrs. Mabel Weddle. both reside in Dinuba, and the entire family are associated with the Christian Church, in which he officiates as an elder. At one time he was active in Masonry, but now is demitted. In national politics he favors Democratic prin- ciples, but during local campaigns he gives his support to men whom he considers best quali- fied to represent the people in office, irrespective of their political views. In his views on the cur- rency question he favors the platform of the People's party, and in 1898 he was their candi- date for county clerk, but the party is in the minority here as elsewhere, and he suffered de- feat with the balance of the ticket. During the long period of his residence in California he has witnessed the development of the state from a sparsely populated and desolate region to one of the most prosperous commonwealths in the entire country, and no one rejoices in its de- velopment more than does Mr. Day.