Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Barnes, Watson 1844 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

WATSON BARNES, an agriculturist in the northwestern part of Yolo County, was
born January 2, 1844, in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, Silas P. Barnes, a
native of New Hampshire and a farmer and stock-raiser by occupation, came to
California in 1854. He was engaged in farming and stock-raising after 1851;
previous to that he was engaged in the mercantile business in the city of
Boston, Massachusetts, for some thirty years. The mother, whose maiden name was
Olive Chapman, was a native of the State of Maine. Both parents were of English
ancestry. Mr. Barnes, senior, arrived in Salt Lake City in July, 1851, and three
years later came on to California, soon locating in Yolo County, where Black's
is now situated, and died April 11, 1888, leaving four children, and property
worth about $100,000. Mr. Barnes, the subject of this notice, owns 525 acres of
finely improved land about five and a half miles northwest of Black's. He was
married in Woodland, July 15, 1880, to Miss M. J. Houx, who was born in 1854, in
California.

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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