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


YOUNG, E. R. Was born in Maine, January 5, 1828. Here he followed farming until 1853, when he came 
via Panama to California, arriving at San Francisco, November 17th of the above year. He went at once 
to Auburn, Placer County, where he followed mining, farming and teaming, until 1858, when he came 
to Lake County and followed farming in Bachelor Valley, until the fall of 1864, when he went to 
Humboldt County and spent the winter. Returning to Lake County in the spring of 1865, he settled on 
his present place, consisting of one hundred and sixty-one acres, located at the head of Blue Lake 
Valley. Here he is engaged in farming. Mr. Young married, October 15, 1873, Miss Dollie M. Green, a 
native of Maine.