Yolo-Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Wolgamott, David 1838 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory

DAVID WOLGAMOTT

    We of the present generation are justly proud of our ancestors of the last
decade, whose unremitting labor and self-sacrifice laid the foundation of the
noble and progressive civilization that we enjoy today.

    David Wolgamott, of German descent, inheriting the sturdy and admirable
qualities of his worthy parents, was well fitted for the role of a California
pioneer. He was born on his father's farm in Guernsey county, Ohio, February 9,
1838, and received his education in the local schools, early giving evidence of
a strong, manly character.

    Upon his brother Joseph's emigration to California in 1850 David's
imagination became fired with a keen desire to take a like journey and make for
himself in the mysterious west a name and a fortune that should reflect honor
upon the house of Wolgamott. In 1859 at the age of twenty-one, being free to
order his life according to his desires, he accepted the opportunity to join a
party of five hundred and eighty people westward bound, and, filled with the
high hopes of youth, he left the scenes of his boyhood. The wagons were drawn by
bull teams, and the memory of that slow, wonderful journey across the plains,
the mingled hardships and compensations, and the deep sense of the Creator's
nearness, David Wolgamott would not voluntarily relinquish. His destination
reached, September 13, 1859, he joined his brother Joseph, who had located near
Woodland, Cal., and for fifteen years the brothers carried on the affairs of the
ranch in partnership.

    In 1870 Mr. Wolgamott won for his wife Rose M. Dinsdale, a native of
Missouri, whose father had brought his family to California the year the Civil
war began. Four years later, believing that more money could be made by dealing
in sheep than by farming, Mr. Wolgamott moved to the foothills of Capay valley
and engaged in sheep raising, gradually adding to his flock until it numbered
three thousand. In 1884 he again changed his residence, locating near
Healdsburg, in Sonoma county, where he continued in the sheep industry. Steady
progress rewarded his efforts and in 1910 he purchased fifty acres of the finest
and most productive land in Yolo county, located southeast of Woodland and known
as the old Demming place, where he now resides. Without irrigation four crops of
alfalfa are raised yearly on this land, and from fifteen acres which had never
been plowed or harrowed Mr. Wolgamott secured as volunteer crops three hundreds
sacks of barley each harvest for three years.

    Three sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Wolgamott, as follows: Frank, a farmer
of Fresno county; Charles, who resides near Healdsburg; and Walter, who is still
on the home place. Integrity and honor are synonymous with the name of
Wolgamott, upon which the sons of this generation bid fair to cast no shadow.
The mother of these children died in Sonoma county May 16, 1909, at the age of
fifty years.


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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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