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 
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WASHINGTON P. WEAKS. The subject of this sketch was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, September 25, 
1819, and there received a common school education, and engaged in farming until his coming to this 
coast In 1852, in company with his wife and family, driving ox- teams. Mr. Weaks started across the 
plains for the Golden State, arriving, in Sierra County in August of the above year. After a short stay 
there he moved to Yuba County, locating in Marysville, and resided there until the fall of 1863. He then 
went to Mexico and engaged in cotton raising near Mazatlan for four years, and in the fall of 1867 he 
returned to San Francisco, and remained there until his coming to Napa County, which event occurred 
July 3, 1872. He then purchased his present property of twenty-six acres, two miles south of St. 
Helena, and is now engaged in viniculture and wine-making. Mr. Weaks was united in marriage in Ohio, 
December 19, 1839, to Miss Mary Macklin, a native of that State, and by this union they have one child, 
Louisa, now Mrs. A. J. Mason.