Yolo-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Hurlbert, D. B. 1811 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

D. B. HURLBERT.-We mention here one of the oldest citizens of Madison, a farmer
and stock-raiser of Yolo County, who once owned the land upon which the
flourishing village of Madison now stands. For the purpose of starting the town,
he donated the land there to those who would properly improve it. He located
here in 1865, coming from New York State, where he was born in 1811. His journey
across plain and mountain was a specially difficult one. He visited a number of
localities and several cities, but concluded that California was the best of
all, and hither he came, in 1851, with his own team. He first stopped in
Hangtown, from 1851 to 1854; then he returned to Wisconsin, and located upon a
farm with his family. Subsequently he sold that place and resided nine years in
Minnesota. Starting then for California, he lost all of his cattle on the way,
and he went off into Montana for a time, and since then he has been a resident
of his present place in Yolo County, landing here November 13, 1865. He
purchased 844 acres, sixty-three of which he gave for the village of Madison;
and he also has given to his two sons a ranch, to one a quarter-section, and to
the other 391 acres. He still holds the home place of 413 acres, his residence
being one-fourth of a mile from the village of Madison. He is successful in
raising large quantities of fine wheat and cattle. He is a member of the Knights
Templar, Masonic blue lodge, and the I. O. O. F.

  In 1846, in Wisconsin, he married Margaret Ream, and they have two
children,-Charles M. and George R. Mr. Hurlbert's parents were Daniel and Sybil
(Martin) Hurlbert, natives of Connecticut. His father, a farmer, died in the
State of New York.


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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