Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Wills, Josiah 1825 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

JOSIAH WILLS.—This much respected and prosperous farmer of Township Number Five,
was born in Muhlenburgh county, Kentucky, January 10, 1825. When but two years
of age his parents went to Morgan county, Illinois, where they sojourned but a
short time, then moved to Macoupin county, and there resided until 1864. Mr.
Wills then spent a short period in Iowa, and, returning to Illinois, finally
settled in Burton county, and engaged in the drug business, which he followed
for three years. He then engaged in a saw and grist mill enterprise for two
years. In April, 1871, Mr. Wills started with his family, via the overland
railroad, to find a home in the fertile valleys of California, and on arrival in
this State selected Contra Costa county for his future residence, where he
purchased his present valuable farm, in Lone Tree valley, consisting of three
hundred and twenty acres, two miles north of Brentwood, and engaged in farming
and stock-raising. Mr. Wills has been twice married; first in Macoupin county,
Illinois, September 15, 1844, to Miss Levina C. Lamarr, a native of Tennessee.
She died August 24,1863. By this union they had seven children: Elvira, Andrew
J., Esther E., Louisa P., George W., Elijah and Susan (now deceased). Married
secondly Mrs. Adaline Fields, a native of Arkansas. They have no children.

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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