Contra Costa-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Wight, Charles N. 1833 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

CHARLES N. WIGHT. — The subject of this sketch is a native of Johnsonsburgh,
Wyoming county, New York, and was born August 5, 1833. At an early age he
attended the common schools, and resided at his birthplace until thirteen years
old, when he went with his brother, R. H., on a visit to his brother-in-law in
Delaware county, Iowa, when Mr. Wight again attended school, at Cascade, same
State. There he remained one year, and afterwards passed two years with his
sister in Delaware county. In the Fall of 1849 he returned to his birthplace,
there attending school for three months, and then turned his attention to
farming and dairying for eight months, and then going to school for three months
more. He then went to Genesee and Wyoming seminary Alexandria, Genesee county,
New York, for two terms, ending January 5, 1852, when he started with his
brother, Randolph, via Panama, for the Pacific Coast, arriving in San Francisco
February 26th of the same year. He immediately, on arrival, proceeded to the
mines on Trinity river, worked in the mines for a short time, and then went to
Georgetown, El Dorado county, where he engaged in mining until the Spring of
1853, when he went to Contra Costa county and took up Government land in
Township Number Three, four miles from New York Landing. Mr. Wight's farm
consists of seven hundred acres, half of which is under cultivation and the
remainder pasture land. Married, in Green valley, Contra Costa county, January
13, 1870, Miss Sarah E. Huntington, a native of Maine. By this union there are
five children: Nellie C., Martha L., Charles H., Walter W. and Albert R.



Additional Comments:
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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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