Colusa Biographical Sketches.

CHAPTER XII.

JOHN D. ROSENBERGER.

This gentleman, one of the most extensive farmers in Antelope Valley, was born in Augusta County, Virginia, March 17, 1834. He was raised on a farm, and in 1859 he went to Montgomery City, Missouri, and purchased a farm near that place. On April 2, 1865, he left Montgomery City for California, overland, arriving at Fosters Gap, foot of the Cascade Mountains, in September following. He lived for one year three miles west of Corvallis, Oregon, and another year on Long Farm, Benton County, Oregon, coming to his present home, in Antelope Valley, nine miles from Maxwell, on October 1, 1867.

Mr. Rosenberger was married, September 4, 1860, to Miss Tabitha Devine, a native of Missouri, by whom he has six children. His farm on which he resides embraces nearly fifteen hundred acres of land and is devoted to grain and stock-raising.

COLUSA COUNTY

ITS

HISTORY TRACED FROM A STATE OF NATURE

THROUGH THE EARLY PERIOD OF SET-

TLEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT,

TO THE PRESENT DAY

WITH A

DESCRIPTION OF ITS RESOURCES, STATISTICAL

TABLES, ETC.

ALSO

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND

PROMINENT RESIDENTS

by Justus H. Rogers

Orland, California

1891

Page 343-465

Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 7/11/2009

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