Contra Costa-Placer-San Luis Obispo County CA Archives Biographies.....Yoakum, George W. 1826 -
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

GEORGE W. YOAKUM.— The subject of this sketch was born in Ray county, Missouri,
May 17, 1842. When ten years of age he, with his parents, four brothers and six
sisters, started, with ox-teams, to cross the plains to the Golden State, and
after a weary trip of eight months, arrived at Gold Hill, where his father
engaged in the hotel business, our subject being employed as herder. In May,
1853, his parents moved to San Jose, where they resided but a short time; they
then moved to San Antonio and engaged in the dairy business. In 1860 Mr. Yoakum
located in Moraga valley and attended school in San Ramon. In 1863 he was
married and returned to Alameda county and worked on his father's old homestead.
We next find Mr. Yoakum, in the year following, in Contra Costa county, where he
sojourned one year, then spent one year in San Luis Obispo county, and in the
Fall of 1865 he moved to Green valley, Solano county, and there engaged in
farming and stock-raising. In the following Fall he moved back to Contra Costa
county and spent two years in Moraga valley, then, after two years passed in the
wholesale butcher business in Alameda county, he again returned to Moraga
valley, and engaged in farming and stock-raising. In July, 1876, he located in
Walnut Creek and engaged in his present business of wholesale and retail
butcher, and has built up a large trade, enjoying the confidence and respect of
the community in which he resides. Mr. Yoakum was united in marriage, in San
Ramon, October 26, 1863, to Miss R. A. Johnston, a native of Missouri, by which
union they have five children, as follows: Emma (now Mrs. Ed. Cribb), Nettie,
Mary, George F. and Mary C.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

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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