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SHEPARD, MICHAEL. Was born in Massachusetts, May 5, 1835. When sixteen years of age he shipped on board the
"New Jersey," for California. Rounding Cape Horn, they arrived at San Francisco October 11, 1849. The
subject of this sketch went at once to the mines and followed mining until September, 1856, when he came to Lake
County and settled in Bachelor Valley, where he still resides. He owns six hundred and forty acres of land, and
is engaged in farming and stock raising. Mr. Shepard married, April 10, 1875, Mrs. Lucy Meredith, a native of Iowa.
By this marriage they have one child, Birdie; and by her first marriage Mrs. Shepard has four children: Lottie,
Maggie, Joseph and Shepherd. In the fall of 1866 his eyes were injured while plowing among some poisonous weeds,
and for the next succeeding five years he was blind, or worse than blind. After eminent physicians had failed to
cure, a lady, Mrs. J. A. Harris, of Lower Lake, effected an entire cure in a few months.
From:
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California
Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers
San Francisco, California 1881
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