Sacramento County
Biographies
AARON FOSTER CORE
Aaron Foster
Core was born in Ross County, Ohio, in 1830, his parents being Isaac and Sarah
(Heims) Core. The father was a native
of Ohio and of “Maryland-Dutch” parentage.
His grandfather Heims lived to a good old age. The father of A. F. Core owned a farm and the son was reared on
it. Receiving the usual common-school education of the period. In 1850 the father made a trip to Iowa and
bought a fractional quarter-section of about 150 acres in Marion County. In 1852 the son bought a similar
quarter-section adjoining the previous purchase and put in a crop. The mother had died a few years before,
leaving five sons and four daughters.
In 1854 the family moved to Iowa and the holding was increased by later
purchases to 850 acres. The father died
there in 1875, aged seventy-three. In
1859 A. F. Core came to California, and went to mining in Shasta County, but
with poor success. In 1861 he came into
what is now Franklin Township, and took up a quarter-section and worked with a
partner, who also had taken up a quarter-section, raising grain on both for two
years. In 1863 they divided
interests. Afterward Mr. Core sold out
his right in that land, and in 1875, bought 160 acres, and four years later
another 160, “adjoining by corners,“ both of which he still owns, tills and
occupies. He raises wheat chiefly, but
has also a small vineyard and a still smaller orchard, besides growing a little
hay and barley. It is excellent land
for wheat and vines. In 1863 Mr. Core
was married to Miss Elizabeth L. Carroll, a native of Iowa, daughter of
Mordecai and Lydia (Taflinger) Carroll.
Mr. Carroll lived to a good age, and Mrs. Carroll is now about
seventy-eight. Mr. And Mrs. Core are the
parents of five children: Isaac N.,
born in 1865; Edward Riley, in 1867; Lydia Ann, in 1869; Ella, in 1871; and
Nathaniel, in 1876.
Transcribed
by Karen Pratt.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California. Page 474-475. Lewis Publishing Company. 1890.
©
2005 Karen Pratt.