Solano County Biography

P.E. Jefferis

P.E. Jefferis - Born in Chester county, Pa., in the year 1828, where he remained till 1846, having learned the trade of carpenter at Union, in that county. He then removed to Wilmington, Delaware, and having resided there for eighteen months went to Philadelphia and engaged in the dry goods business until 1851, when he came to California, arriving in San Francisco on February 8,1852. In that year he went to Nevada county, and for eighteen months prosecuted mining, at the end of which he returned to Philadelphia and embarked in the furniture business, continuing it up to the spring of 1854, when he once more sailed for California. On his arrival he proceeded to Sierra county, leaving it in the following summer for Nevada county, where he commenced the livery business, which he prosecuted for about fourteen years. On February 8,1869, he visited Vallejo, but it was not till May, 1870, that he permanently settled in that city, when he obtained employment on Mare Island Navy Yard, at which he was engaged till 1874, when he received the appointment of Foreman House-Joiner, in the Department of Yards and Docks, a position which he still holds. Mr. Jefferis married in Philadelphia, on September 26, 1854, Sarah, daughter of John Hinecle, of that city, by whom he has Ida Florence; Lizzie H.; Mary L.; and Enos P.

History of Solano County, California
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Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, February 2008

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