Napa County CA Archives Biographies.....Duhig, James 1824 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

JAMES DUHIG, whose ranch of 380 acres is situated about seven miles from Napa;
has been a resident of California since June 19, 1850. He has a vineyard of
sixty acres, fifty acres of which are in full bearing, some of it, however,
affected by phylloxera, which he intends replacing with resistant vines. The
grapes are mostly of the Zinfandel variety. There is also on the place an
orchard of seven acres in French prunes, also in bearing; the remainder of the
land is now devoted to grain, hay and stock.

  Mr. Duhig was born December 27, 1824, in Lowell, Massachusetts. His parents,
James and Catherine Duhig, were natives, of Ireland, who removed to America
early in this century. He was brought up on his father's farm in the
neighborhood of Lowell, and was sixteen years of age when he entered the mills
of that city as a laborer. In 1850 he came to California by the Panama route,
arriving in San Francisco June 19, 1850. The first three years he spent
operating at the mines, with fair success, and then came to Napa County and
began agricultural pursuits on the farm where he now lives. In 1882 he set out
the present vineyard, in which there are about sixteen acres of Berger grapes,
eight acres of Malvoisie and the remainder of Zinfandel. His grape crop of 1888
was of Zinfandels, 201,874 pounds; of Berger; 114,501 pounds; and of Malvoisie,
88,590 pounds; but in 1889 the crop was much smaller.

  Mr. Duhig is a member of the Masonic order, and in his political principles is
an enthusiastic Republican.

  He was married in 1848, to Miss Sarah Morton, a native of Maine, who died
March 29, 1865, and they have brought up a family of eight children, namely:
Emma, now Mrs. E. L. Drake; Lizzie M., now Mrs. O. C. Frisbie, of Shasta County;
Willis G., Leonard M., Sarah E., now Mrs. J. H. Whitty, of San Francisco; Louis
J., for some years a resident of Tehama County; George E. and Isaac M.


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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