Lake-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Christie, William A. 1827 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

WILLIAM A. CHRISTIE, a farmer near Lakeport, is a native of Callaway County,
Missouri, born in 1845. His father was a native of Scotland, and his mother of
New Jersey. In the fall of 1852 his father with his family moved to Santa Clara
County, California, where he engaged in farming for the following four years. In
1856 he came to Lake County. When William A. was twenty-one years old he engaged
in farming, in partnership with his brother. In February, 1889, he bought the
farm on which he now lives. It is located about three miles south of Lakeport,
in Big Valley, and contains twenty-eight and three-fourths acres of choice land,
which he devotes to the production of fruit and vegetables. He has a fine
two-story residence and a good barn. He was married in 1872, to Mrs. Catharine
Bourne. They have three children: Isabel, Maggie and Carrie. Mrs. Christie has
one daughter from her first marriage, Mary Ellen Bourne. Mr. Christie is a
member of the order of the Iron Hall and of the A. O. U. W.

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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