DECKER, PORTER A.

DECKER, PORTER A. - Son of Francis and Mary Thorpe Decker, was born in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, August 19,1852, and resided there until he was six years of age. His parents then moved and settled in Moniteau County, Missouri, and resided there for sixteen years, where the subject of this sketch was educated at the common schools. January 12,1874, he started to California, arriving in this State January 21st of the above year. He went direct to Calistoga where he engaged in the livery business, and is now manager of the Harbin Springs stage and livery stable of that place. Mr. Decker was united in marriage in Calistoga, July 20,1879, to Miss Luella Cole, a native of Illinois, and by this union they have one daughter, Mabel, born July 19,1880.

History of Napa and Lake Counties,: San Francisco, Cal.: Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers, 1881
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, May 2007 Page 446

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