Yolo-Solano County CA Archives Biographies.....Jeans, Jephtha 1842 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

JEPHTHA JEANS, dealer in fresh meats at Winters, Yolo County, is a son of B. F.
Jeans. Both his parents were natives of Kentucky, and he was born in Pike
County, Missouri, June 28, 1842. In 1866 he came overland to California,
stopping at Vacaville two months and then locating at Smith's Landing, where he
purchased a band of dairy cows, drove them to the Humboldt River, and wintered
there, but in the spring of 1860 went to Idaho and ran a dairy for three and a
half months. Disposing of his stock there he returned to Vacaville and was
engaged in the butcher business there three years, when he sold out, in 1875,
and located in Winters, where he now conducts a neat butcher shop, or meat
market, doing a good business. The town of Winters was started during the spring
preceding the autumn in which he settled there.

  He was married in Solano County, in 1874 to Miss A. Starks, and they have four
children, named Frank L., Ida, Mabel and Robert H. She died in 1881, and he
afterward married Mrs. Swan, and by this marriage there is one child, Veda by
name.


Additional Comments:
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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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