Yolo-Nevada-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....McWilliams, M. J. 1833 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

M. J. McWILLIAMS, a farmer near Woodland, is a son of Andrew and N. Margaret
(Stanton) McWilliams, natives of Ireland who came to the United States in 1820,
locating in the State of New York, where they resided until 1840. They then
removed to Iowa, and in 1849 came overland to California, there being four
members of the family. M. J. and his brother Bryan located in Nevada County and
engaged in mining until 1852, when they came into the Sacramento Valley and took
up a ranch on the banks of the American River. In 1862 they disposed of this
farm and settled upon another at Buckeye, in Yolo County. Thirteen years
afterward, namely, in 1875, Mr. McWilliams purchased forty acres two miles east
of Woodland, where he now resides a prosperous farmer.

  He was born October 11, 1833, in Plattsburg, New York, and October 4, 1869, in
Iowa City, Iowa, he was married to Mary A. Freeman, a native of that city. Their
children are five in number, as follows: Margaret E., born August 7, 1873; Anna
F., December 4, 1874; Julia, June 10, 1877; Joseph F., November 1, 1879, and
Mary, January 14, 1883.


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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