Santa Clara Biography
Zadoc A. Biggs
Born in Boone county, Missouri, March 10, 1826, where he received his education and worked on a farm until 1850. In that year, on May 1st, in company with thirteen others, he started across the plains with ox-teams for California, arriving at Nevada City September 12th. of the same year. Remaining there only a short time, he went to Deer creek and followed mining until February 1851; he then proceeded to the Cosumne river and mined them till November, 1852, when he came to Almaden township, Santa Clara county, and purchased his present farm of one hundred and sixty acres. Married, March 10,1864, Phebe Cairns, by whom there have been a family of five children, three having died when infants. The nanmes and births of those now living are: William A., born December 5,1864; Zadoc S., born March 10,1874.
History of Santa Clara County, California,: San Francisco, Cal.: Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers, 1881
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, October, 2007 Page 559
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