Yolo-Nevada County CA Archives Biographies.....Fowler, W. J. 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

W. J. FOWLER, a gardener at Woodland, and one of the well-known pioneers of the
State, is a son of William and Hessey (Dickson) Fowler. His father, a native of
Tennessee, came early to California and died August 25, 1886; and his mother, a
native of North Carolina, is still living, at the age of seventy-three years.
Mr. Fowler was born in Hendricks County, Indiana, and was six years of age when
he was taken to Missouri, where he lived until 1849, when he became one of the
first to journey overland that year to California. His first stop was at Grass
Valley, Nevada County, and shortly afterward he located on the place where he
now lives, within twenty rods of the city limits of Woodland. His place of forty
acres is set mostly in fruit, but he owns altogether 440 acres in this State. In
1850 he returned to Missouri, and in 1852 came back to California. He is the
oldest settler in Yolo County, and has two brothers, who live with him: Caleb
and Thomas, and also an unmarried sister, Melissa.

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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