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Wilson, James


BORN IN: Ireland
DIED: 11/13/1898
AGED: 64
CAUSE OF DEATH: Diabetes
DEATH LOCATION: Pescadero

OCCUPATION: Farmer

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CURRENT EVENTS:
  • 1836 Revolver (Samuel Colt)
  • 1845 Texas annexed into U.S.
  • 1846 Mexican-American War
  • 1849 California Gold Rush
  • 1850 California became the 31st State
  • 1860 The Pony Express
  • 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
  • 1861 American Civil War
  • 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
  • 1866 Ku Klux Klan
  • 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
  • 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
  • 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
  • 1876 Baseball's National League
  • 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
  • 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
From the public domain book: History of San Mateo County, California , published in 1883

James Wilson

Mr. Wilson was born in Ireland in 1833, and came to the United States in 1839. He was reared in Stephenson county, Illinois, and became a farmer. Leaving the prairies of Illinois, he came to California by the Nicaragua route early in the year 1850. He mined in Amador county for a time, but in 1856, tiring of the precarious pursuit of wealth by this means, he came to San Mateo county, locating originally at Redwood City, and worked at chopping, shingle-making, teaming and farming until 1865. That year he leased a dairy farm of Steele Bros., near the coast. He remained here seven years, and attributes his success, in a great measure, to the Steele Bro's. After this he leased a similar ranch of Mr. Coburn, stocked it, whereupon which he remained eight years. He is now located on a ranch near La Honda, where he is conducting a dairy of about one hundred cows, from which he manufactures both cheese and butter, which is shipped regularly from Redwood City to San Francisco, where it is rated Al in the market. The average yield in cheese alone from this ranch, is thirty thousand pounds per year. He married Susan M. Jones, and they have four children; Ulysses L., Albert A., Mary J. and Nellie O.


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