Yolo-Placer County CA Archives Biographies.....Cunningham, Francis 1830 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

FRANCIS CUNNINGHAM, a farmer near Black's, Yolo County, was born November 12,
1830, in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Gilbert)
Cunningham, both natives of that State. His father, a tanner by trade for over
sixty years, died in that State in 1885, and his mother died in 1876. Of their
nine children, two sons are living in California. In 1859 Mr. Cunningham came by
water to California. For the first year and a half he followed gold mining at
Oregon Bar in Placer County. Then he settled on land about one and a half miles
from where he now lives, and at length he sold it, in 1867, and purchased where
he now resides. The present ranch, of 160 acres of tine land, is owned by
himself and his brother Jacob, and they intend to devote it mainly to
fruit-raising. They already have twelve acres of figs and three of prunes. Jacob
was born in Pennsylvania, in 1845, and came to California in 1868. He married
Miss Nellie Murphy, and they have three children:—Maud, Winnie and Jacob.
Francis is yet unmarried.

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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