Sonoma-Yuba County CA Archives Biographies.....Wisecarver, J. R. 1816 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Wisecarver, J. R. A native of Green county, Pennsylvania, born June 6, 1816.
Here he remained until twenty-eight years of age, when he went to Livingston
county, Missouri, and engaged in farming and stock-dealing until 1849, when he
emigrated to California, crossing the plains with ox-teams. He engaged in
teaming in Yuba county until the Fall of 1850, when he returned to Missouri, via
Panama. Here he dealt in stock and farmed until 1862, when he emigrated to
Oregon, remaining there until the Fall of 1863, when he came to this county, and
settled on a farm in Santa Rosa township; after a residence of one year, he
removed to Vallejo township, where he farmed until 1868, when he settled on his
present estate in Washington township. He married Miss Jane Black, July 4, 1839.
She was born in Ohio, December 18, 1818. Rachel E., born June 16,1840, and died
October 26, 1848; William H., born September 15, 1842: Mary J., born October 9,
1844, and died March 21, 1867; Susana F., born November 4, 1847, and died
January 26, 1852; Sarah J., born February 26, 1852; Joseph L., born August 23,
1854; James M., born May 9, 1857; Francis S., born May 9, 1857, and Thomas J.,
born September 5, 1863, are the names, births and deaths of their children.

Additional Comments:
Washington Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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