Yolo-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Harley, E. 1815 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

E. HARLEY, a farmer of Yolo County, was born in 1815 in Montgomery County, a
Pennsylvania, about thirty miles north of Philadelphia, where his parents also
were born. The name Harley is English, and the first emigration to this country
was that of a Mr. Harley who was an Englishman, and his wife who was a German
woman; and it is said that their descendants in this country now number BOO. The
father of the subject of this sketch changed his residence several times in
Pennsylvania, and in 1827, probably, he moved to Stark County, Ohio, and several
years afterward to Montgomery County, same State, and in 1840 to McLean County,
Illinois, at which time he had six sons. In 1850 the youngest son, Aaron, and
the subject of this sketch, in company with others, crossed the plains to
California, with a mule team, stopping first at Diamond Spring, near Hangtown
(now Placerville), August 9. Until the fall of 1851 Mr. Harley, our subject, was
in the mines, and then with others settled in Yolo County, engaging in
agricultural pursuits. At that time there were very few settlers in this region,
and there was neither town nor village west of the Sacramento River in that
county except Fremont, merely an initial point at the mouth of Feather River.

  Mr. Harley's first wife passed away in 1847. In 1877 Mr. Harley, for his
second wife, married Miss Powell, also a native of Pennsylvania, and they have
one son, nearly twelve years old. Their home is in a very fine part of Yolo
County, probably as good a section as any in the State.


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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