Napa-Yuba-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....McVicker, Dennis 1851 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

DENNIS McVICKER.—The fine ranch belonging to Colonel J. D. Fry of San Francisco,
situated near Yountville, Napa County, has been under under Mr. McVicker's
management for over twelve years, and its present high state of cultivation and
fine appearance is due to his care. He is moreover a practical horse-breeder,
taking an enthusiastic interest in the Colonel's fine stud of horses under his
charge, and breeding the fast animals that have made the stud famous, such as
Arab, out of Arithon, dam Lady Hamilton, and other well-known horses. He is also
engaged in rearing Holstein and short-horn Durham cattle and Southdown sheep.

  Mr. McVicker was born in Napanee, Canada, in 1851, where his father, John
McVicker, is a farmer. He left there in 1868, when nineteen years of age, and
has resided almost constantly in California since, engaged entirely in the
business of horse breeding and raising, sometimes on his own account and at
other times in the employment of others. For four years he was with Mr. Tallant
in Wheatland, for two years with Mr. Jasper, and then at San Jose with Frank
Malone, as also in Sacramento and elsewhere for himself. He owns some property
in Sacramento, which he is improving, and is an active, energetic and
thoroughgoing man in all he undertakes. He was married to Miss Annie McLennan,
in San Francisco, in 1886. They have one child.


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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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