Shasta-Lake County CA Archives Biographies.....Poston, Dallas 1844 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

DALLAS POSTON is the dispenser of justice in his section of Shasta County, as
well as a farmer on a large scale on what is known as the Lilly ranch, one of
the best ranches in that part of the county. He is of good old Virginia and
Kentucky stock, which came originally from Scotland. His grandfather, Henry
Poston, was born in Kentucky, and was a soldier in the war of 1812; his father,
William Harrison Poston, was born in Virginia, and was a soldier in the Mexican
war; his son, the subject of this sketch, was born in Virginia January 9, 1844,
and he also served his country in the great civil war. He enlisted in Company K,
of the Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, when a youth of only seventeen, and was
consequently too young to receive promotion; but he was prompted before the
close of the war to the position of Second Sergeant. His mother, Louisa
(Johnson) Poston, was a native of Virginia, and he was the second child of a
family of nine children.

  After his service in the army he turned his attention to farming in Missouri
for a time, and then emigrated to Kansas and purchased 160 acres of land, upon
which be built and which be otherwise improved. In April, 1873, he came to Lake
County, California, and worked in the quicksilver mines successfully four years.
He then started and ran a meat-market six years, when he sold and removed to
Middletown, in that county, and ran the Lake County Hotel for a year. Then, in
1887, he went to the Lilly ranch in Shasta County, where he now resides, and is
sowing about 320 acres of land to wheat, barley and oats.

  Mr. Poston was married in 1864, to Miss Mary Jane Funk, a native of Missouri,
and they have had nine children, seven of whom are living, namely: William H.,
Cory B., Winnie E., born in Missouri; Sarah and Chas. A., born in Kansas, and
Ira, Emery, Evan and Omar, born in California. Mr. Poston's political views are
Democratic. He has held the office of Supervisor in Lake County for several
years and now holds the office of Justice of the Peace in Shasta County. He is a
member of the A. O. U. W. and of the I. O. O. F., and has been District Deputy
in both orders.


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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