Butte County CA Archives Biographies.....Pollock, John 1830 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

    JOHN POLLOCK.— John Pollock, the second son of Thomas and Mary (Morrill)
Pollock, was born January 13, 1830. His father was born in Columbiana county,
Ohio, in 1803, and his mother was a native of Pennsylvania. Thomas Pollock
removed in an early day to Richland county, Ohio, where he engaged in farming,
remaining on the first place settled until his twelve children were born. In
boyhood, John worked on the farm, attending school a little in winter. In 1856,
he removed to Cass county, Iowa, and began farming. Three years after he started
with his family, two yoke of oxen and one of cows, for Pike's peak. He changed
his resolve, and kept straight on across the continent, arriving in Strawberry
valley September 15, 1859. They immediately began working by the month for
Samuel Danville, on the Honcut, at fifty dollars a month for himself and wife.
Here they staid until the fall of 1860, when, with Samuel Jeffrey and S. L.
Frost, Jr., they rented the place and worked it for one year. Mr. Pollock then
rented Obed Sawtelle's ranch, and afterwards D. W. Cheeseman's. On the eleventh
of November, 1867, he purchased the place on which he now resides, of John S.
Morris. There were then three hundred acres, poorly improved, but he has
increased the ranch to 640 acres. Mr. Pollock was married to Miss Jane C.
Vandorn, daughter of Cornelius and Mary (Wilkinson) Vandorn, also of Richland
county, Ohio, on the twentieth of March, 1851. The elegant house, situated on
the Feather-river road from Marysville to Oroville, was erected in the fall of
1880 and spring of 1881. In 1877, they returned to Ohio for a short visit of a
few months. Mr. Pollock is a man highly honored and respected by the community
in which he lives.

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HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA,
IN TWO VOLUMES.

I.
HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM 1513 TO 1850.
BY FRANK T. GILBERT.

The Great Fur Companies and their Trapping Expeditions to California.
Settlement of the Sacramento Valley. 
The Discovery of Gold in California.
BY HARRY L. WELLS.

II.
HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY,
From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. 
BY HARRY L. WELLS AND W. L. CHAMBERS.

BOTH VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED WITH VIEWS AND PORTRAITS.
HARRY L. WELLS,
517 CLAY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO
1882.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by HARRY L. WELLS, in
the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

FRANCIS, VALENTINE & Co., Engravers & Printers
517 Clay St., San Francisco

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