John Tryon

John Tryon, a resident of the city of Sacramento, was born in the Province of Quebec, Canada, in February, 1824. His father, David Tryon, was a boy at the time of the Revolutionary War, grandfather Tryon at the time living in Vermont, United States, but his sympathies were with his mother country, and he with his family moved across the line, going 200 miles by ox teams into the timber and settling on “rent lands,” at Clarenceville, Province of Quebec. David Tryon grew up there and married Jennie Crawford, a native of Scotland; the subject of this sketch was their only son. He grew to manhood, and at the age of twenty-three was married to Adelia A. Billings. She having died in 1861, he was again married, to Miranda R. Billings, a Canadian, her father being a Vermonter, but not near related to his first wife. By this second marriage there were four children. In 1869, he with his family removed to Atchison County, Kansas. After six years they took up a homestead in Pottawatomie County, living thereon seven years, then removed to the southern part of the State, within fifty miles of Indian Territory. Falling heir to the estate of Ephraim L. Billings, who had come to California in the early day and settled in Sacramento, and died in January, 1883, they removed to this city, where they have made their home ever since.