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HANSON, J. F. Was born in Coles County, Illinois, June 11, 1833, where he resided with his parents on a farm
until he was fourteen years of age, when the family crossed the plains to California, with ox teams, arriving in
the Sacramento Valley in October, 1848. The father's family spent the winter at the Lassen Ranch, while J. F. and
his brother, Nathan E., engaged in mining on the Feather River. In the spring of 1849 J. F. went to Yuba City and
ran a ferry across the Feather River for about four months. He then engaged in teaming to the mountains for four
months, and in the fall he went to Santa Clara, where he attended school till about. July 1, 1854. He then returned
to Yuba City, and at the end of two weeks came to Lake County in company with his father, D. Brunson, - Washburn,
D. Hamblin, and Daniel Hanson, a brother. This party settled on different places in the vicinity of where Upper
Lake now stands. At the end of eighteen months J. F. returned to Yuba City and spent about six months; and in February,
1856, he returned to Lake County and settled where be now resides, in Long Valley, where he owns five hundred and
twenty acres. He also has an extensive sheep range in Weldons Valley, near the Sulphur Bank, comprising between
one thousand eight hundred and two thousand acres. On his place in Long Valley there is a fine grist and saw mill,
which will be found described elsewhere.
From:
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California
Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers
San Francisco, California 1881
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