Yolo-Yuba-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Soule, W. H. 1837 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com February 6, 2007, 7:54 pm Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891) W. H. SOULE, a hardware merchant at Woodland, is a native of Maine. His parents, William F. and Elizabeth M. (Frost) Soule, were also natives of that State. His father was born March 5, 1800, and his mother in 1802. In the spring of 1852 they went to Wisconsin for a short time, and in the same year came on to California, by water. The ship on which they were to sail became disabled and they were landed on the Isthmus, where they were compelled to wait until a relief ship came; and the place being very unhealthful, James Soule, brother of W. H., was taken sick and afterward died at sea and was thrown overboard off Monterey, and his sister Eliza died on the very day they landed in San Francisco, and shortly after that, September 5, 1852, their mother also died, in San Francisco. There were originally five daughters and four ons, [sic] of whom four daughters now reside in San Francisco. William Soule, the father, followed mining a short time, when his health failed and he went to Puget Sound for a year. In the spring of 1854 he and son W. H. went to Port Orford, Oregon, during the "Beach" excitement, where they mined and prospected on their way back to Marysville, this State, and proceeded on to San Francisco. In 1855-'56 they followed farming in Marin County, and then in Sonoma County until 1861, when they dissolved partnership, the father going to San Francisco, where he died February 19, 1876. Mr. Soule, our subject, went to Idaho during the gold excitement and followed mining there until the autumn of the next year, then for three years he followed freighting between Sacramento and Virginia City. From 1865 to 1873 he followed agricultural pursuits in Solano County; then he purchased 320 acres on Putah Creek, in Yolo County, and occupied it until 1884; then he spent six months in Texas; next, returning to Woodland in 1886, he purchased a half interest in the hardware store of P. W. Barnes, and after a partnership of one year he bought out Mr. Barnes' interest, and is now enjoying a substantial patronage. Mr. Soule was born February 12, 1837, and was married in Solano County, September 2, 1871, to Mary Cunningham, a native of Canada, and they have two adopted children, William H. and Minnie A. 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/yolo/bios/soule694gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb