Sacramento County
Biographies
MRS. ISABELLA W. MISER
MRS. ISABELLA W. MISER, a ranch-owner
of Cosumnes Township,
about twenty-seven miles from Sacramento, was born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, December 3, 1826, her parents being
Edward A. and Mary Ann (Ryder) Hughes. The father was a native of Nova
Scotia, and the mother of New Brunswick. The
latter died of cholera in 1849, in St. Louis, Missouri,
where they had settled in 1841, the father being a dealer in boots and shoes in
both cities. He came to California
in 1854, and lived with his children, already settled here, and died some years
later at the age of seventy-seven. The subject of this sketch was married in St.
Louis, February 2, 1848, to Solomon Miser. In
1849 Mr. Miser came to California,
and was engaged in mining on the Cosumnes, and
afterward in cattle-raising near Redwoods, until he went back for his wife and
child in 1851. After a weary journey of five months across the plains,
they arrived on the Cosumnes and soon afterward squatted on the place still occupied by Mrs.
Miser. By purchase from the Government and others he became possessed of
680 acres of land before 1865, to which Mrs. Miser has added 320 acres since
his death. Mr. Miser came to his death in 1876, by being run over by his
own heavily-loaded wagon. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Miser, living in
1889, are: Spencer A., born in St. Louis, Missouri, November 11, 1848, and
married in 1879 to Miss M. E. Hale, born in this State, a daughter of William
Hale, of Kelsey; has two boys. Delia, born in California
in 1852, now Mrs. Frank Jones, of Walsh’ Station, in this county; has two boys
and five girls. Joseph E., born in 1854, owns a small ranch and rents a
large adjoining one in this township, using both for a sheep range. Laura,
born in 1856, now the wife of William Russell, blacksmith on the Jackson
road, ten miles from Sacramento;
has three children—Charles, Joseph and Annie. Dawson A.,
born in 1860; Edwin A., born in 1863; Howard A., born in 1866.
Transcribed 9-20-07 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated
History of Sacramento County, California. Pages 761-762.
Lewis Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.