San Joaquin County
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JOHN REYNOLDS
JOHN REYNOLDS, farmer of
Castoria Township, was born in Nicholas County, Kentucky, June 27, 1817. In
November, 1844, he went to Wisconsin, and engaged in bricklaying until the year
1853, when he started across the plains for California, with a party of
forty-four; he did not start with the party, but one month later, overtaking
them at Emigrant Springs. They landed at Hangtown September 10, 1853. He went
on to Stockton, where he helped in laying the bricks in the court-house,
commanding $9 a day and paying the same amount a week for board; he remained
there five weeks, then came to this county and built his brother-in-law’s brick
residence. He then went to the mines in El Dorado County, where he mined two
years. He left with about the same amount of money that he had when he
went to work. He lost $1,000 in the
Adam’s Express. Afterward he came to San Joaquin County, and bought the ranch
on which he now resides, paying $6.25 an acre for it. It contains 440 acres of
rich land, and there is a very pretty house on it; it is located about eight
miles from Stockton, on the French Camp road. He is principally engaged in
raising grain and stock.
He married Margaret Ramsey, who was born
in Parke County, Indiana, 1842. They have had four children, one of whom is
dead: their names are as follows: Emma, John, who died in 1885, Edward E. and
George R.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 254-255. Lewis Pub.
Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2008 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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