Yolo-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Van Zee, D. 1828 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

D. VAN ZEE, farming near Woodland, was born in Holland, September 14, 1828, son
of Garret and Mary (Dikop) Van Zee. His father, a farmer, died there in 1878. In
1851 Mr. Van Zee came to America. For the first two years he was employed on a
farm in Iowa. He then came to California, and followed mining four years, at
Gibsonville. In 1857 he came to Yolo County, rented a piece of land seven miles
from Sacramento and engaged in farming one year; then, taking up a piece of land
near Willow Slough, six miles from Woodland, he engaged in farming. In 1869 he
bought half a section of land two and a half miles from Woodland. In 1879 he
bought his present place, and now owns there 395 acres, of land, of which
forty-one acres are in grape-vines.

  For his wife he married, in Yolo County, 1869, Ernestina Fourch, who was born
in Germany in 1851, and their six children are: William, Mary, Fred, Sarah,
Garret and John.


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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