Jefferson Franklin WILCOXSON

 

Jefferson Franklin WILCOXSON was a California pioneer in 1849, and was a man who wielded large and benignant influence in connection with the civic and material development and upbuilding of Sacramento, the fair capital city of the state.

 

Mr. WILCOXSON, in company with his brother Jackson and a man named STOVALL, set forth from Carrollton, Missouri, on the long and hazardous journey across the plains to California, and after many hardships they arrived in the “land of promise” in 1849, the year that marked the historic discovery of gold in California.  Jefferson F. WILCOXSON engaged in the brokerage business, and eventually he became the owner of a large amount of California real estate, he having been associated with Mr. STOVALL in the ownership of one of the finest ranches in the Sacramento Valley, in Colusa County, a domain known as the STOVALL-WILCOXSON Ranch.  Mr. WILCOXSON was long and appreciatively affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and his funeral was held under Masonic offices, his death having occurred in April, 1898.  Mr. WILCOXSON remained a bachelor until the close of his life, and his large estate in California was inherited by his nephews and nieces, the children of three of his brothers.