Yolo-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Kirkham, Samuel 1843 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co.

SAMUEL KIRKHAM, a farmer five miles southeast of Woodland, and an early settler
of Yolo County, was born June 19, 1827, in Butler County, Ohio, a son of George
D. and Mary (Dennis) Kirkham. His father, a native of Kentucky, was a tanner and
also a farmer, and moved first to Ohio and then to Illinois, and to California
in 1876, where he died, July 7, 1878. Samuel also worked in the tannery and upon
the farm until he was twenty-two years of age, when, in the spring of 1850, he
came across plain and mountain to California with ox teams, being on the road
from April 28 to August 20. He remained at Hangtown until 1854 engaged in
mining, when he selected his present home, which has long been a model
residence. Mr. Kirkham is a very liberal-hearted man, generous to a fault and
has generally been too "easy" with his debtors, else he would have been worth
thousands more than he is.

  He was married in 1860 to Miss Mary R. Chandler, a native of Ohio, and a
daughter of Salmon and Naomi (Beebe) Chandler, who came to California in 1859
and who are now both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Kirkham have had two children:
George E., deceased, and Naomi J., wife of Jonathan Scott Harmon, of Oakland.


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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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