Yolo-Mono County CA Archives Biographies.....Hoppin, Charles R. 1829 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

CHARLES R. HOPPIN, a farmer of Yolo, is the son of Thaddeus Curtis and Tamar
Hoppin. His mother descended from the Daniels family, of the State of
Massachusetts. His parents, in 1844, moved to Niles, Michigan, where the father
died in 1856, the mother in 1881.

  Charles R. Hoppin was born in Madison County New York, March 29, 1829. When
eight years of age he went to Onondaga County, New York, where he remained six
years, and then went to Michigan and lived there until 1849. Then with ox teams,
he came to California, reaching Lassen ranch October 20.

  After mining until some time in the year 1850, he went into Yolo County, where
he with one of his brothers bought 8,000 acres of land on Cache Creek. Mr.
Hoppin has lived ever since on his ranch near Cache Creek, where he farms 500
acres. In the year 1875 he returned to Niles, Michigan, where he married Miss
Emily Bacon, and they have four children: Harriet, Edward, Edith, Charles R., Jr.


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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