Contra Costa-Nevada-Sutter County CA Archives Biographies.....Wells, Philip 1838 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

PHILIP WELLS, a successful farmer near Pacheco, Contra Costa County, was born
August 28, 1838, in Grayson County, Kentucky, the son of Samuel D. and Matilda
(Brunk) Wells, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Pennsylvania;
they are still living, at the age of eighty-four years, in Davis County, Iowa;
all their lives long they have been given to agricultural pursuits. Philip was a
child when the family removed to Iowa, and his advantages for a school education
there were limited. In 1858, he came by water to California, sailing from New
York and being twenty-one days en route, which was the best traveling that had
been made at that date. On the Atlantic side his steamer was the Morris Taylor
and on the Pacific side the Golden Age. He followed mining in Nevada County
until 1863, and then farming in Sutter County until November, 1867, and then the
same business in Sonoma County until June, 1883, when he came to his present
place of 311 acres, a mile and a half from Pacheco and six and a half miles from
Martinez. His ranch is devoted to general agriculture.

  He married, in Sonoma County, Miss Margaret Clark, who was born in Illinois in
1850, and they have six children, viz.: Jasper, Eva, Lillie, Myrtle, Ernest and
Samuel.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.

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