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


STEPHENS, JOHN D. Was born in East Tennessee, January 16, 1836. When about sixteen years of age, 
his father being dead, he, with his mother, moved to Arkansas, where they resided about three years. 
The subject of this sketch then came to California, coming across the plains with an oxtrain, and arrived 
at Rough and Ready September 10, 1854, after a tedious trip of five months and ten days. Like all who 
came to California in those days of gold, he took at once to mining, which he followed until 1860, when 
he changed his avocation to that of teamster, which he continued until October, 1865, when he came 
to Lake County, and remained at Upper Lake until December of the above year, when he returned to 
the mines, and in August, 1866, again returned to Lake County. He settled on his present place, in 
Scotts Valley, in November of the above year. Mr. Stephens married, September 10, 1866, Miss Mary 
A. McLean. Their children are, Albert S., Laura E., Hector W., Augusta I. and John H.