Santa Cruz-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Yoacham, John Samuel 1832 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

JOHN SAMUEL YOACHAM, one of the venerable pioneers of California, was born near
Kansas City, in what was then Indian Territory in 1832. His parents were Daniel
and Rosa (May) Yoacham, natives respectively of Kentucky and Tennessee, he being
the fourth in a family of six children. His father was a contractor and builder,
for the Indians, in the Government employ. Education in those days was received
in log schoolhouses, and each man had to pay for his own children. In this way
Mr. Yoacham obtained his schooling.

  In 1848 he left for Mexico as a teamster, freighting from Santa Fe and back
home in 1849; then back to Santa Fe, and thence to Old Mexico, and to El Paso,
Texas; thence to Chihuahua, Durango and Mazatlan, packing. From the latter place
he shipped to San Francisco, where he arrived June 15, 1850, on the bark Diana,
a French vessel. After his arrival in California he mined about one year. The
following three years he was engaged in farming at San Jose. Then he came to
Santa Cruz county and settled in the Pajaro valley, farming, butchering, doing a
livery business and keeping store, etc. At this writing he is still conducting a
store. Politically he is a Democrat, of uncompromising principles. He is an
extensive reader, is well posted on the general topics of the day, and is in
every respect an intelligent citizen. He has served three terms in the City
Council and one term as its President. Socially he is an Odd Fellow, and is Past
Grand of Pajaro Lodge; also a charter member of Watsonville Lodge of A. O. U. W.

  Mr. Yoacham was married, in 1854, to Miss Mary J. Hooker, a native of Virginia
and a daughter of Major Hooker. Their children are as follows: Susie, Llewella,
wife of A. W. White; Robert Lee and Daniel H.


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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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