Lake-Yuba-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Edmunds, J. F. 1832 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

J. F. EDMUNDS, dealer in harness and saddles at Lakeport, California, was born
in Scottville, Allen County, Kentucky, in 1832. His parents were natives of that
State. He received his education in the schools of Scottville. At the age of
fourteen he entered a harness and saddlery store in his native town, where he
served two years in learning that trade. He then went to Elkton, where he was
engaged for a little more than a year, completing his apprenticeship, after
which he traveled in Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri, working as a journeyman
in the harness and saddlery business. While in Missouri he worked two years at
New Madrid. In March, 1853, he started for California via New Orleans. He
traveled down the Mississippi River on a steamboat. At New Orleans he embarked
on the steamship United States for Aspinwall. Crossing the Isthmus to Panama, he
sailed on the steamer Cortes for San Francisco, where he arrived May 4. From San
Francisco he went to Marysville and from there to the northern part of Sierra
County, where he engaged in mining for a few months. He then engaged in
merchandising, in which he continued until 1858. During this time he was also
engaged in mining ventures, with the variable results incident to that business.
In 1858 he bought the Columbus House, a hotel located at Strawberry Valley, Yuba
County, where he remained till 1862, doing a very profitable business. He then
sold his hotel and removed to Marysville, where he engaged in the wholesale
liquor business, in which he continued two years. In 1864 he sold his business
in Marysville and engaged as a traveling salesman for a wholesale liquor house
of San Francisco, in which he continued till about 1870. He then again engaged
in the liquor business in Marysville, in which he continued about a year and a
half, when he sold out and renewed his engagement as a traveling salesman. In
1880 he went to Pennington, Sutter County, where he built a hotel, and also a
store building, which he occupied as a harness and saddle and variety store. In
1883 he disposed of his property in Pennington and removed to Lake County, where
he opened a harness and saddlery store in Lakeport. His business here is
constantly increasing and he now carries a line of carriages, sewing-machines,
etc., in connection with his other business. He is also engaged in the insurance
business and represents a number of first-class companies. He was married, in
1857, to Miss Mary C. Spillman, a native of Allen County, Kentucky, They have
three children living: Alice, Samuel and James R. Alice is married to Read
McCraney, a jeweler of Lockport. Samuel is a painter and James R. is in the
harness business in Hopland, Mendocino County. Mr. Edmunds is connected with the
Christian Church, and is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

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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