James Horn

James Horn - Was born seven miles from Glasgow, Scotland, December 17,1817. At the age of sixteen he went to Glasgow and worked on a canal for seven years. He then opened a store, which he continued for ten years. He then came to California, arriving November 5,1851. He first went to the mines at Ophir, and in 1852 he went to Volcano, Amador County, and thence to Fiddletown, same county, where he followed dairying for two years. He then embarked in the hotel business at Michigan Bar and shortly afterwards he went to the Montezuma Hills, in Solano County, and engaged in the dairying business. In the fall of 1859 he moved to one of the islands, and during the flood of 1862 he lost all his stock. In 1869 he went to Antioch, and in 1871 he came to his present place of one hundred and sixty acres, located about two miles north of Calistoga, and is engaged in fruit-raising and dairying. He was married in Glasgow, Scotland, August 8,1840, to Miss Jeannie Eucknam, a native of Scotland. They have had three children, all now deceased.

History of Napa and Lake Counties,: San Francisco, Cal.: Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers, 1881
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, June 2007 Page 481

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