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 SCOTT.  Was born in Ohio, July 17, 1833. At the age of sixteen he moved with his mother, his 
father having died, to Henry County, Iowa. Having learned the trade of milling in Ohio, he followed it in 
Salem, that State. In the spring of 1851 he moved to Mahaska County, same State, locating near 
Oskaloosa. In 1856 he came to California, coming by the Sublette cut-off, and arrived at Dutch Flat 
August 22d of that year. Here he followed mining for three years, when he went to Vaca Valley, 
Solano County. In 1860 he moved to Knights Valley, Sonoma County. In 1863 he moved to Napa Valley, 
locating at the Bale mill, where he remained for two years. He then went to Kansas and engaged in 
milling for three years, and in 1871 he returned to California and to the Bale mill. At the end of 
eighteen months he went to Chiles Valley and run that mill for four years. He then went to Salem, 
Oregon, and in a short time returned to Chiles Valley, spending one year there. Then he spent one 
year in Pope Valley. He then moved to Calistoga and took charge of that mill, where he still remains. 
He was married September 2, 1855, to Maria Hanson, a native of Ohio. Their living children are, 
Sanford, born February 12, 1861; Mary, now Mrs. Roberts, born in 1862, and Arvilla, born January 31, 
1865.