Tehama-El Dorado-Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Rambo, Jacob And Isaac ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com February 21, 2007, 10:05 pm Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891) RAMBO BROTHERS, Jacob and Isaac, are retired ranchers and live at Red Bluff California. Their father, Adonijah Rambo, was born in Virginia. He married Miss Nancy Little, a native of North Carolina, and by her had six children, five sons and one daughter. Jacob was born in Wayne County, Indiana, November 15, 1828, and was educated in his native State at South Bend. He came to California in: 1850 and settled ten miles east of the city of Sacramento. For a year he mined in Coloma County, after which he formed a partnership with William Burt and engaged in the blacksmith business. At that time James Burch ran the stage from Sacramento to Hangtown. Rambo & Burt shod fifty horses for him, at $16 each. During those days the fare to Hangtown was $25. After being in the blacksmith shop for a year he took up a ranch and engaged in farming. He raised the first crop of barley ever produced in that part of the county. He sowed, cradled and bound it in sheaves, and sold it to travelers for horse feed, at two bits a sheaf. Later he returned to his trade and carried on both blacksmithing and farming in Sonoma and Tehama counties for over twenty years, meeting with excellent success. Isaac Rambo was born March 12, 1834, and followed his brother to California in 1860. He bought forty two horses in Indiana at an average cost of $80 each, drove them across the plains to California and sold them at $300 apiece. Their brother Calvin also came this time. Isaac Rambo went to Humboldt and Nevada counties, took up some mining claims, and was there for three years. He then sold out and entered into a partnership with his brother Jacob, both in mines and farming, and has been with him ever since. Their partnership began in Sonoma County, and in 1868 they came to Tehama County and purchased 320 acres of land on Red Bank. For their first crop, sixty tons of oats and barley hay, they received $30 per ton, an amount equal to the purchase price of the land. After farming that ranch three years they sold it and bought 700 acres, located sixteen miles northeast of Red Bluff. While conducting this property they were eminently successful. In addition to other things they raised many hogs, which cost them very little and brought them large returns. Their immense crops of hay they sold to millers in the mountains. They also raised sheep. One year they had four thousand, and the price of wool was fifty-one cents per pound. This ranch they sold at a handsome profit, have since bought and sold property, and now own 1,020 acres of land, which is rented and is being cultivated. In February, 1888, Mr. Isaac Rambo married Miss Emma Rambo, his third cousin. He had the great misfortune to lose her at the birth of their little daughter. He named the babe Emma, for her mother, and confided her to the tender care of his most amiable friends, Mr. and Mrs. Crumbaugh. The Rambo brothers have a pleasant home in Red Bluff, where they reside; the elder brother is the housekeeper and Isaac takes care of the yard and horses. In politics they are stanch Republicans. Jacob Rambo has been one of the Supervisors of the county for three years. He has served as City Trustee several terms and now (1890) holds that office. Both have been successful business men, and are highly respected by their fellow citizens. 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/tehama/bios/rambo762gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 4.5 Kb