Cyrus Douglas
Cyrus Douglas, a successful rancher of the Lompoc Valley, was born in
Vermillion County, Illinois, in 1831.
He lived at home assisting
his father on the farm until the spring of 1852, when he started his ox
team and prairie schooner for the Pacific slope. It was a large train,
and through repeated delays they were seven months on the road. They
came in through Oregon, and our subject located in Pierce County,
Washington Territory, where for three years he worked at logging and in
saw mills. In 1855 he came to Mendocino County, and worked ten years in
logging in the red woods.
In 1867 he went to Solano County, and
bought 160 acres of land and raised wheat and barley, remaining until
1876, when he came to Hollister and put in one crop. In the spring of
1877 he came to Lompoc, and bought forty acres of land, and moved his
family in the fall.
His land was partly cleared, and he soon
after built his house and out buildings. He also rents 200 acres across
the river, where he raises wheat and barley. He has a small orchard for
home use, and makes beans and mustard the principal crops. He keeps
horses and cattle, but only for ranch purposes.
Mr. Douglas was
married in Solano County, in 1867, to Miss Armilda F. Carter, a native
of Missouri. They have seven children, all at home.
History of
Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California - by
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II. -Lewis Publ.
Co., Chicago, 1917.
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