Yolo-Placer-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Guysi, Jacob 1827 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com February 22, 2007, 7:41 pm

Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

JACOB GUYSI, a Yolo County farmer, is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, born
November 26, 1827. His parents were natives of Switzerland. His father was born
in 1774 and his mother in 1784. They came to the United States when young and
were married in Philadelphia about 1819, and raised a family of seven children.
Jacob, the fourth, received his education in the public schools of Cincinnati.
He left home March 7, 1849, and went to New York city, where he took passage on
the bark Rising Sun for San Francisco via Cape Horn.

  The bark was fitted out by a company of 100 men to come to California to
engage in mining. They took about twenty passengers, who paid $250 each for
their tickets. They landed at San Francisco September 10th, having been 165 days
on the ocean. Mr. Guysi remained a few days at San Francisco, then went to
Auburn, Placer County, where he engaged in mining for the winter. In the spring
of 1850 he went to Sacramento, where he worked at putting up iron buildings for
a time. He also bought an interest in a sloop, which was used for carrying
freight and passengers between Sacramento and Marysville. In the fall of 1850 he
returned to Auburn and resumed work in the mines on the same ground that he had
left in the spring. In March, 1851, he sold his mining interests at Auburn and
went to the east branch of the north fork of Feather River, where he mined on
Rich Bar till about the first of July. He then came to Yolo County and bought
out a squatter, who had settled on land nine miles southwest of Sacramento. He
now owns 320 acres of good land, and is engaged in raising grain and stock.

  He was married in 1878 to Mrs. Morgan, a native of Ireland. They have five
children: Charles, George, Henry, Robert and William. Mrs. Guysi is the mother
of one child, resulting from her first marriage, Frederick Morgan. Mr. Guysi has
a fine property, with good improvements, which is rapidly increasing in value.
In politics he has always been identified with the Republican party.


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.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/yolo/bios/guysi900bs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/cafiles/

File size: 3.2 Kb