John G. Norton
John G. Norton - Son of John C. and Elizabeth Sterling Norton, was born in Oswego County, New York, September 30,1835, and resided at his birthplace until he was twenty-one years of age, where he was educated at the common schools, and afterward followed farming. November 5,1856, found the subject of this sketch on board the steamer "Illinois," bound for California via Panama; and on the Pacific side he took passage on board the "Golden Gate" for San Francisco, arriving December 1st of the same year. He immediately proceeded to Napa Valley and worked in the employ of his brother on a farm near Dry Creek, and afterwards worked for different parties in the county, but finally located in Napa City, where he worked as helper in his brother's blacksmith shop and remained one year. At the breaking out of the Fraser River excitement, he, with many others, started for the new El Dorado, but being somewhat disappointed in the size of the "nuggets," he returned to Napa County and to his brother's shop, where he remained for two years. He was then married and leased several different farms until 1866, when he purchased his present valuable property of sixty-seven acres, two miles south of St. Helena, and is principally engaged in viniculture. Mr. Norton is married and has three children, whose names are, Frank E, Katie M,, and Annie Maud Fisher.
History of Napa and Lake Counties,: San Francisco, Cal.: Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers, 1881
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, February, 2007 Pages 531-532
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