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CARVER, JAMES H. Was born in Kentucky, May 3, 1840. When but an infant his father, his mother being dead, moved
to Missouri. In 1859 the subject of this sketch returned to Kentucky and attended school for two years. He then
went to Missouri again, where he remained until the spring of 1863, at which time he crossed the plains to Virginia
City, Nevada. Here mining was prosecuted until 1864, when, on account of failing health, he came to California.
He was engaged in butchering in Vacaville, Solano County, and farming near Dixon until 1875, when he came to Lake
County and settled about four miles south from Lakeport. Here he followed farming and stock raising for three years.
He then moved to Lakeport and engaged in butchering one year. In the fall of 1879 he settled on his present place,
consisting of two hundred and fifty acres, located in Coyote Valley, where he is engaged in farming and stock raising.
Mr. Carver married August 22, 1869, Miss Gertrude Myers, a native of Missouri They have one child, Emmett E.
From:
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California
Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers
San Francisco, California 1881
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