San Joaquin County
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HUMPHREY SHERMAN HOWLAND
H. S. HOWLAND, a farmer of Castoria Township, San Joaquin County, was born in Bristol
County, Massachusetts, July 14, 1827, and at the age of seven years migrated to
Ohio, where he remained until twenty-two years of age. He then went to Indiana,
where he stopped one year, then, in 1852, started across the plains to
California, arriving on the 27th of October, of that year. He has
been situated in several different places in the county, but finally settled on
a ranch close to Lathrop, where he has a fine large residence and improvements
to correspond. The ranch on which he resides contains sixty-five acres. On
another ranch in the same vicinity he raises grain and some stock.
He was married to Miss Barbery Meyer, and they have five children, viz: Annie L., Leroscoe, Leroy,
Fannie V. and Oliver M. Leroscoe and Leroy were
twins. Leroy was shot and killed in Tulare County, by L. Wicks, when about
twenty-one years of age.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 460. Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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