Yolo-Yuba-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Crites, Ephraim Q. 1838 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

EPHRAIM Q. CRITES, a farmer near Black's, was born April 22, 1838, in Wayne
County, Ohio, the son of Jonah and Lucy Ann (Kindich) Crites, both natives of
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania; the father was a merchant until he was about forty
years of age. In 1856 Mr. Crites, our subject, sailed from New York for
California, and after arriving here stopped for a few days at Sacramento; then
mined two months on the Cosumnes River; made a trip northward, stopping in
Marysville for a short time; was next employed in a hardware store at Sacramento
four years, and finally, in 1860, he went into Yolo County and purchased a tract
of 170 acres, one and a half miles northwest of Black's, which is now a very
fine ranch. Fifty acres are set out in grapes, of which eighteen acres are in
bearing, and thirty-two acres are two years old. Twenty years ago he set out the
first orchard in this vicinity.

  August 8, 1884, he was united in marriage with Miss Delia F. Naupin, who was
born February 12, 1863, in California, and they have two sons, named and born as
follows: Charles C., December 10, 1886, and Harry E., July 31, 1888.


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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