Monterey-Marin-Inyo County CA Archives Biographies.....Corey, Hiram 1831 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

HIRAM COREY, one of the successful farmers and stock-growers of Monterey county,
was born in the town of Stanbridge, Canada, March 7, 1831, and has been a
resident of California since 1852.

  Mr. Corey was the fourth of a family of nine children, born to Reuben and
Malinda (Reynolds) Corey, both natives of New York. Mr. Corey, our subject, was
reared on a farm in Canada, and was twenty years of age when he left his native
home and came west. He spent one year in the mines of Nevada, when, with an
older brother, Noah, he engaged in the lumbering business in Marion county,
California. Later he took up dairy farming in the same county, continuing that
occupation until 1861. Their next venture was in the mines of the Owens river
country, where they erected a quartz mill for a New York mining corporation.
Upon the completion of this job they returned to their dairy in California and
remained until 1872.

  In 1872 Mr. Corey came to Monterey county and leased the Bueno Vista rancho of
7,725 acres of land and operated it until 1883, as a stock ranch, and in that
year he purchased it. This ranch, under the able management of Mr. Corey, was
known as one of the best dairy ranches in California. He operated it upon a
large scale, keeping from 450 to 500 cows. In 1889 he sold the property, but
soon repurchased 1,630 acres, lying on the Salinas river, a lovely tract of moor
lands, for a home, and here he has made one of the finest and most comfortable
rural homes in the entire State. Its surroundings are picturesque and the
residence grand in its architectural proportions, substantial in construction
and elegant in arrangement, both within and without.

  Mr. Corey has always been a financier and now owns some of the best-blooded
horses in the State. These horses are of important stock. The breeding stables
are built on a broad scale, elegantly finished throughout, with the latest
improvements.

  Mr. Corey married, in 1856, Miss Rosanna Frost, a native of Essex, Vermont:
she and her husband have one daughter, who is now Mrs. Bradley V. Sargent, Jr.,
of Salinas. Mr. Corey is a self-made man in every sense of the word, a typical
farmer and has carved his way to a position among California's most successful
business men, by his inherent industry, thrift and perseverance.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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