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


PORTER A. DECKER.  Son of Francis and Mary Thorpe Decker, was born in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, 
August 19, 1852, and resided there until he was six years of age. His parents then moved and settled in 
Moniteau County, Missouri, and resided there for sixteen years, where the subject of this sketch was 
educated at the common schools. January 12, 1874, he started to California, arriving in this State 
January 21st of the above year. He went direct to Calistoga where he engaged in the livery business, 
and is now manager of the Harbin Springs stage and livery stable of that place. Mr. Decker was united 
in marriage in Calistoga, July 20, 1879, to Miss Luella Cole, a native of Illinois, and by this union they have 
one daughter, Mabel, born July 19, 1880.