Yolo-El Dorado-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Morin, C. D. 1852 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

C. D. MORIN, dealer in tin and hardware at Woodland, is the son of John and
Julia (Bran dm ore) Morin, natives of Canada. His father was a cooper by trade,
for a time held the office of inspector of potash, and died when C. D. was a
small boy, in Montreal, Canada; and the mother died in Brockville, Upper Canada.
Mr. Morin was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1832, and at the age of seventeen
years he began to learn the trade of tinner in Brockville, Canada, with John
Lafayette. In 1852 he went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he was employed nine
months, and then he came overland to California, stopping, however, at North
Platte and Fort Laramie, where he was engaged for a time in trading with the
Indians; He came that far with a band of sheep owned by Z. Rochon. He arrived in
Sacramento in 1853 and followed mining one summer season at Salmon Falls on the
American River; next he followed his trade a year at Sacramento; then mined
again one year at Indian Diggings; returning to Sacramento again, he remained
there until 1858, when he went to Fraser River, during the first flush of
excitement from that quarter, and for a short time was employed there by a man
named Bragg. He spent a month in the mines, and returned to Sacramento, stopped
there four months, and then for eight months he worked for M. Winchell at
Cacheville, Yolo County, in the tin business, and he then bought him out. After
conducting the business there for seven years he moved to Woodland, where he has
succeeded well in business, and being one of the prominent citizens of the
place. He has a nice residence on Court street. He is a member of Woodland
Lodge, No. 22, A. O. U. W.

  Mr. Morin married Miss Minnie B. Schindler, a daughter of David Schindler,
born in Wisconsin, and they have three children: Mattie M., aged twenty-two
years, and Minnie M., aged twenty years. Mattie is a music teacher, and Minnie
is a dressmaker.


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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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