Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Ryder, Thomas H. 1844 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory

THOMAS H. RYDER

    One who may with truth be called a pioneer of Yolo county is Thomas H.
Ryder, who arrived in Woodland in the fall of 1863, when but two business blocks
graced the town. A native of Michigan, he was born in Van Buren county in 1844,
the son of Samuel Ryder. The latter came to California across the plains and
engaged in mining and he died in the west. The wife and mother, Ruth Ryder,
spent her last days in Woodland. Thomas H. Ryder passed his early life on a
farm, and in the fall of 1863 set out for California by the Panama route.
Reaching San Francisco December 20, 1863, he immediately started for Woodland,
crossing the Sacramento river and arriving at his destination December 22nd.
Securing a position Mr. Ryder worked for others four years before purchasing his
present property located one mile south of Woodland. There are ninety-six
fertile acres in this ranch, twenty-seven of which are planted to grapes, the
remainder to barley and alfalfa, and it is Mr. Ryder's just claim that not once
in the forty-five years that he has operated his ranch has he had a single
failure in his grain crop, which sometimes yields thirty sacks to the acre.
Incidentally, the soil is twenty-seven feet deep and exceedingly rich. Sultana
and Zinfendel are the proud names his grape family bear.

   In 1873 Mr. Ryder married Miss Nannie Dunkel, a native of Iowa. They have one
daughter, Mrs. Oleta Bates of Sacramento. Mr. Ryder is a director of the Home
Savings Bank and enjoys the high regard of his friends and business associates.


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Extracted from

HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]




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