Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Harriman, S. M. 1814 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

S. M. HARRIMAN, a prominent citizen of Winters, was born April 30, 1814, in 9
Kanawha County, West Virginia, a son of John and Nancy (Morris) Harriman, both
of whom are also natives of Virginia. They trace their ancestry back to Wales.
One of the grandfathers was a pioneer of West Virginia, and was in the noted
battle of Point Pleasant. He was afterward shot off his horse by Indians while
sheriff of the county. John Harriman, the father, was a farmer and lived and
died on the same farm where he was born. He was born April 29, 1790, and died
July 18, 1840; his widow died in 1865, in the same place; she was born January
7, 1791. Mr. S. M. Harriman, our subject, was brought up on a farm. At the age
of twenty-one years he married Miss Eveline G. Spurlock, a native of Virginia,
and in the spring of 1839 he moved to Ray County Missouri, where he remained
until 1861, engaged in farming and mercantile business. He then started for
California, with, an ox team. On Raft River he and his party were attacked by
robbers, with whom they had a desperate battle for thirteen hours, and they were
finally overcome and robbed of everything. They were then obliged to complete
their journey to California on foot, arriving at Sacramento September 19, 1861.
He at once proceeded to Yolo County, took up land and began farming in Buckeye
Township; and this he improved for twenty-two years, when he sold out and
removed to Winters. At that place he owns and rents considerable property. Mrs.
Harriman died May 6, 1886, at the age of sixty-nine years and six months,
leaving three children: Thomas B., Nancy (wife of J. C. Campbell), and Nellie
(wife of John Hansford); and there were six others, now deceased. Mr. Harriman
is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Baptist Church, being baptized
as early as May 15, 1833. He was ordained in the ministry, in Ray County,
Missouri, in 1859, and filled the pulpit for over thirty years in Missouri and
California. At present he is living with his children, a retired life. He
preached the first series of sermons ever delivered in Colorado, at Boulder
City. He has been a very active man during his life, and is still active. His
residence is on Russell street, in the enterprising town of Winters.



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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