Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Shryock, Samuel 1830 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

SAMUEL SHRYOCK, engineer of the Woodland City Water-works, is a son of John and
Mary (Sheets) Shryock, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of
Rochester, New York. He was born in Hamilton County, Indiana, November 14, 1827,
where he, on growing up to manhood, served his time as an apprentice at the
carpenter and joiner's trade. In 1853 he came to California and was in the mines
until December, 1855, when he went to Yolo County and purchased a squatter's
right near Woodland. Subsequently he purchased an interest, with William Borden,
in a general machine and blacksmith shop in Woodland, and conducted it for three
years. Next he was engaged in the manufacture of syrups for two years; and then
he started a machine shop, and three years subsequently he and a man named
Studenburg bought the Woodland Flouring Mills and ran them two years. In 1868 he
sold out, went East on a visit, when he was married to Miss Rachel Williams, a
native of Indiana. Returning in 1874 to Woodland, he began running a
threshing-machine, and continued with it nine years, when he disposed of that
and was employed by the Woodland Water Company in his present position. His wife
died in June, 1875, leaving three children: John J., born in May, 1869; Gertrude
A., in 1871, and Josephine A., November 8, 1873. Mr. Shryock, when running his
machine shop, furnished a great deal of the material for the court-house at
Woodland.

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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