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


ENGLISH, B. F. Was born in Madison County, Kentucky, September 8, 1815. When he was but a child, 
he, with parents, moved to Howard County, Missouri. After a short residence there they moved to 
Salem County, and from there to Clay County. August 16, 1833, the subject of this sketch married Miss 
Pauline Durbin, and in 1835 they moved upon the Piatt Purchase. In 1843 they moved into Atchison 
County, and emigrated to Oregon in 1846. Here farming was followed until 1863, when they came to 
California and settled in Green Valley, Solano County. While there the same occupation was followed 
as while in Oregon until 1870, when they moved to Lake County and settled on the road leading from 
Middletown to Lakeport, near Anderson Springs, where they now reside. They have six living children: 
Charles H, Benjamin F., Harmon H, Eugene, Lane B. and Lucretia ; and have lost five.