Yolo-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Duncan, W. G. 1828 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

W. G. DUNCAN, a farmer near Capay, Yolo County, was born October 1, 1828, in
Amherst County, Virginia, the son of John I. and Margaret (Toler) Duncan,
natives also of that State, who moved to the northern part of Missouri when
their son was a small boy. Remaining with his parents until 1850, the subject of
this sketch, in company with his brother, William H., came overland to
California, with Dr. Lane, who supplied the penniless boys with the necessaries
of the journey, in consideration of half their earnings for a year. They
followed mining at Mud Springs for three months, but with little profit, and Dr.
Lane agreed to release them with three months' work for him, which proposition
was accepted and the work done. The brothers then followed mining again, until
the spring of 1853, when they took up a tract of land two and a half miles from
their present place. In 1869 they disposed of that farm to Mr. Woodard. During
the previous year they had bought the place where they now reside, a mile from
Capay, where they now have 7,300 acres, besides eighty acres near Woodland.

  Mr. Duncan was married in Woodland, March 13, 1879, to Miss Mary Franklin, a
native of California, and they have one child, who was born in 1883 and is named
Elvira G.


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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