Contra Costa-Solano-Napa County CA Archives Biographies.....Carter, James 1842 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

JAMES CARTER.—Was born in Brunt county, Canada West, April 3, 1842. When
seventeen years of age he, with one brother, immigrated to America, and
sojourned about six months in Michigan. He then returned to his home in Canada,
whence he started, via New York and Panama, for California, arriving in San
Francisco November 27, 1859. After locating in Napa county, he resided four
years in Solano county, one year in Oregon, two years in Idaho Territory, and
one year in Nevada Territory, when he moved to San Joaquin county, where he
prosecuted farming until the year 1875. He then came to this county (bringing
his family with him), and leased about thirteen hundred acres of the Robinson
ranch. Mr. Carter married, in Napa City, November 17, 1870, Miss Lizzie Grilman,
a native of Pennsylvania, by whom there are two children, Arlington and Noda.

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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.

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