John Bateman

John Bateman - This respected citizen of Napa County is a native of Jefferson County, New York, and was born October 29,1821. At the age of ten years, his parents moved to Herkimer County, same State, where the subject of this sketch was educated, and employed on his father's farm until March 4, 1849. On that date he sailed from New York, via Vera Cruz, for the land of gold, arriving in San Francisco hi June of the same year. He first found employment in Sutter's saw mill, El Dorado County, for a short time, receiving in compensation twenty dollars per day. Mr. Bateman, thinking this was making money too slow, embarked in mining, in which he was successful; and in September, 1850, he returned to his home in the East, where he sojourned for four months. He returned to San Francisco, and in 1854 paid another visit to his home in the East. This time he was married, and after a stay of eighteen months, once more returned to this coast, locating in Big Valley, Lake County, and engaged in the dairy business, which he successfully prosecuted for ten years. April 1866, found Mr. Bateman located in Napa Valley, engaged in agricultural pursuits; and in the spring of 1880 he purchased his present valuable farm of one hundred and thirty-tax acres, and is now chiefly engaged in viniculture. Mr. Bateman was united in marriage in Herkimer County, New York, in February, 1855, to Mrs. Catherine Willoughby, a native of that State, and by this union they have one son, Henry.

History of Napa and Lake Counties,: San Francisco, Cal.: Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers, 1881
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, February, 2007 Pages 397-398

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