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


SMITH, WILBURN. Was born in North Carolina, February 17, 1824. At the age of fourteen he went to 
Missouri, and from there visited Texas and New Mexico. In 1850 he crossed the plains to California, 
arriving at Sacramento in August. He spent the first eighteen months in the mines, and then returned 
to Sacramento and worked on a ferry boat for about eighteen months. The next two years were spent 
in Yolo County, and the following four years in Green Valley, Solano County. A year was spent at 
teaming in Nevada, and eighteen months at farming in the same State. He then returned to Yolo 
County, and followed farming for three years. In the spring of 1869 he came to Lake County, and 
settled in Bachelor Valley t where he now owns three hundred and twenty acres of land, and is 
engaged in farming. He was married. May 30, 1858, to Miss Abbie Linder. They have one living child, 
Sarah E., and have lost three : Fannie, Richard and Carrie M.