Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Rollins, James S. 1829 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

JAMES S. ROLLINS, carriage builder and repairer at Yankville Station, Yolo
County, was born May 26, 1829, in Waldo County, Maine. His father, Samuel
Rollins, was born March 14, 1794, in New Hampshire, and was in early days a
house carpenter. The mother, whose maiden name was Olive Beal, was born May 22,
1806, and is still living, in Maine, with scarcely a gray hair in her head! In
1862 Mr. Rollins came by way of Panama to California, and after a brief visit at
several points he began plying his trade for Mr. W. B. Smith at Liberty Pole
Corner, and during the next autumn bought him out and ran the business alone for
five years. He then sold out and purchased a farm of 200 acres about four miles
and a half northwest of Black's, and this he cultivated, besides running a
blacksmith and carriage shop. He sold out this place in 1878 and bought the
tract of six and a half acres which he now occupies with a fine residence, at
Yankville Station. He is still carrying on the carriage-making trade, and enjoys
the reputation of being a very fine workman. Also in connection with the shop he
has his place set to fruit trees and raisin grapes.

  He was married in 1855, in Maine, to Miss Mary E. Norton, and they have had
one daughter, Estella S., now the wife of N. B. Parkhurst, in Maine. For his
present wife Mr. Rollins married, in 1869, Miss Nattie F. Young, a native of
Sandusky County, Ohio, and their two children are: Dallas Y., born May 6, 1871,
and Blanche A., January, 20, 1876.


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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