San Benito-Amador County CA Archives Biographies.....Creamer, John Henry 1842 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

JOHN HENRY CREAMER, a resident of San Benito, is a typical California pioneer.
He came to the State as early as 1848.

  Mr. Creamer was born twelve miles west of Detroit, in Wayne county, Michigan,
November 17, 1842. His father, Henry Creamer, a farmer and wagon-freighter, came
to this coast across the plains with horses, in 1850, and here he was engaged in
freighting from Sacramento into the mining districts. His wife died in
Sacramento in the spring of 1852. The subject of our sketch had preceded his
parents to California, having been brought out by Dr. King, a distant relative
of Mrs. Creamer and a personal friend of the family. He was, however, returned
to his parents in the East, and crossed the plains with them in 1850. His youth
and early manhood days were spent on the mountain trails, as conductor of pack
trains and as a freight teamster; "Fiddletown," in Amador county, being for a
time his base of operations. He was the first man to ride on the pony express
between Sacramento and Salt Lake, and was the first to haul rocks from the
Virginia mines. He came to San Benito valley in 1872 and engaged in farming, and
in 1874 located his present home, a mile and a half south of San Benito. He owns
800 acres of tilled lands, his land being among the very best in San Benito county.

  In 1874 Mr. Creamer was united in marriage to Miss Lucinda Gammon, a native of
Nova Scotia. Although advanced in years, he is hale, hearty, sociable, and as
buoyant in spirit as a man at half his age.


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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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