Solano County CA Archives Biographies.....Pulsifer, Orrin F. 1852 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

ORRIN F. PULSIFER, agent at Vallejo for the Port Costa Lumber Company, has been
a resident of California since April, 9,1875. The Vallejo depot is the point of
supply for the Napa Valley, the Sonoma Valley, and also to some extent the
Sacramento Valley. This yard also ships considerable lumber to Southern
California, Arizona, New Mexico and even as far as Texas on the south and the
Missouri River in the East. They have received orders for redwood lumber even
from Buffalo, New York. They carry a stock of about 4,000,000 feet of the
various grades and sizes of lumber. All the pine comes from Puget Sound, the
redwood from the coast counties, mostly from Humboldt and Mendocino counties.

  Mr. Pulsifer was born in Pittston, Kennebec County, Maine, in 1852, and at the
age of thirteen years was thrown upon his own responsibility. For a short time
he followed the sea, and then various occupations. Two years he was clerk in a
hardware store, several years in the ice business, and then for a time he was
engaged in lumbering in Florida in the employ of Swift Bros., of New Bedford,
who were getting out live-oak timber for the United States navy. In 1875 he came
to California, engaged in railroading for a year and a half and since then in
his present business of lumbering, for about ten years with Pope & Talbot, of
San Francisco and Vallejo, and later for their successors, the Port Costa Lumber
Company, being for the past year in charge of their business at this point. He
is a member of Solano Lodge, No. 229, F. & A. M. of Vallejo, of Pacific Lodge,
No. 155, I. O. O. F., of San Francisco, and of the A. O. U. W.

  He was married in 1885 to Miss Mary H. Rutherford, a native of California, and
they have two children, Jennie R. and Elizabeth M.


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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