Napa County CA Archives Biographies.....Laughlin, W. H. 1836 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

W. H. LAUGHLIN, whose ranch of sixty-two acres, about a mile from Napa, has
about thirteen acres in bearing orchard, of which 500 trees are Bartlett pears,
100 peach, early and late Crawfords, 500 pears, 200 apple-trees, and about two
acres of various fruits for home consumption. All of this ranch was planted out
by Mr. Laughlin about twenty-five years ago, and part of it is only from seven
to eight years old.

  Mr. Laughlin has been a resident of California and of his present home for the
past thirty-one years. He was born in County Antrim, Ireland, in February, 1836,
and his parents came to America while he was a boy, settling in New York Stated
where he has lived for nine years. In 1858 he came to California and immediately
commenced farming in the Napa Valley, and since then has continued to the
present time, having been absent only eight months, during the Salmon River
excitement. He commenced working as a farm hand, and continued at that until he
purchased his present home in 1865, when he bought seventy-five acres. He has
since improved the place and made a very comfortable home.

  He was married in 1872, to Miss Margaret A. Donnely, a native of County
Tyrone, Ireland. He has been for four years Road-master on the Road District No.
13. He is a member of the Pacific Endowment League, and of the Royal Argosy, and
a member of the United Endowment Associates.



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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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