Yolo-Colusa County CA Archives Biographies.....Suggett, J. E. 1854 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory (1913)

J. E. SUGGETT

    Since establishing a home in Yolo county during the year 1897 Mr. Suggett
has owned and managed ten acres of alfalfa land in Willow Oak park, where he has
an attractive country home. Since he has made a specialty of alfalfa he has been
prospered in a gratifying degree and has cut as many as seven crops yearly,
never taking off less than six crops, which fact in itself speaks volumes for
the character of the soil and its adaptability to this popular variety of hay.
It has been found profitable to carry on a small dairy and the owner devotes
much of his time to the correct care of the splendid milch cows kept on the
place. A firm believer in the future growth and prosperity of the county, he
gives it as his opinion that in all of his travels throughout the west .he has
found no region more fertile, no people more hospitable and no climate more
salubrious than is to be found in his own chosen locality.

    A Missourian by birth and a Kentuckian by lineage, Mr. Suggett was born at
Middletown, Montgomery county, in 1854, being a son of Volney and America A.
(Holman) Suggett, natives respectively, of Kentucky and Missouri. During early
life, many years before the outbreak of the Civil war, Volney Suggett left
Kentucky for the newer lands of Missouri, where he developed a fine farm from a
tract of raw land. About the year 1875 he came to California and bought land
near College City, where he engaged in farming until his death. One of his sons,
George, never left Missouri but continued to farm in the vicinity of Middletown,
where he married and reared his family of four children. Three of these
children, Homer Marvin, Buford and Mattie, came to the west and purchased a
large tract of ranch land in Yolo county seven miles north of Dunnigan.

    When about twenty years of age J. E. Suggett came to California in company
with a party of home-seekers. Nine days were spent between Omaha and Sacramento.
Even as late as that year (1874) the country was still wild and in parts
lawless. On one occasion, when stepping from the train at a station, he was shot
at by a Chinaman. However, he reached his destination in safety. For a time he
attended school at College City, Colusa county, where later he engaged in
building operations and assisted in erecting a drug store and hotel. In a search
for cheap land he prospected through Oregon and Washington and in the latter
state he took up three hundred and twenty acres of government land during the
year 1883. At that time Indians were very troublesome and on one occasion the
savages attacked him so fiercely that he would have been killed had not a
neighbor hastened to his rescue. The land was rich and fertile and he harvested
as much as seventy bushels of wheat to the acre. On the ranch he had a number of
horses, also a large drove of hogs-and some poultry. The location was suitable
from the standpoint of crops, but the country was so wild and unattractive that
he finally returned to California after an absence of fifteen years. During 1896
he married Mrs. Sarah (Wernekie) Suggett, the widow of his brother, William, and
one daughter, Marie, blesses their union. By her first marriage there are five
children, namely: Nora, who married A. B. Caveler and is living in Mexico; Mrs.
Myrtle Parsons; Hermena, wife of Amos Williams, of Sacramento; Dewey, who lives
in Oregon, and Charles, who remains with his mother and assists Mr. Suggett in
the care of the home place.


Additional Comments:
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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