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The three Josiah Wings: shipping merchant, pioneer, mayor
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Dingler, Nancy
[485]
[RETROSPECT-2003-485]
Flags were lowered to half-staff on all public buildings and many private businesses in Solano County, to note the sad and sudden death of Josiah Wing on June 14, 1915. He was so well-liked that the painful news of his death brought a countywide outpouring of sympathy for the family. Businesses closed the day of the funeral.
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No hurry in picking men, Gold Rush women told
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[691]
[WAYITWAS-2007-691]
Advice was to take one's time, and judge a man beyond his fine clothes.
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Grant upstages Suisun City's incorporation
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[687]
[WAYITWAS-2007-687]
In 1851, Capt. Josiah Wing purchased land in the Suisun Bay, and sent for his wife, Mercy, and the 10 children from both his first and second marriage from the East Coast.
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Gold Rush lured family to California
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[199]
[WAYITWAS-2004-199]
Luzena Stanley Wilson and her husband, Mason Wilson, are two names that resonate through Vacaville's early history. The couple arrived in California with their two toddlers in 1849, attracted by the Gold Rush. They experienced the hardships of the rough society of Sacramento and Nevada City before finally settling in the fertile Vaca Valley in 1851.
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Early California gold rush pioneer
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Bowen, Jerry
[125]
[WAYITWAS-2002-125]
Some of Solano County's early residents are relatively unknown locally but when you look into their past you find that they left an impressive trail of actions and deeds.
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(79)
1866
Mercy Wing. Wife of Josiah Wing?
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Loss of Capitol, decline of port end dreams
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Delaplane, Kristin
[228]
[ECHOS-1995-228]
Information for this article came from the Benicia Camel Barn Museum, Solano County Genealogical Society, Benicia Historical Society, and Vacaville Heritage Council (Part 2. Last week was the story of the founding of Benicia in 1848 by Robert Semple, who purchased the land from Gen. Vallejo. The first news of the Gold Rush was in Benicia [...]
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Settler's humor helped her cope in pioneer days
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[4]
[WAYITWAS-2000-4]
During the early years of the Gold Rush, women were a rare sight, especially in the gold fields, but also in the newly forming settlements. One of the few who braved the hardships of the journey was 28-year-old Luzena Stanley Wilson, who, together with her husband Mason Wilson and her two toddler-aged children, came to Vacaville in the spring of 1851.
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Cattle boom of 1850s short-lived in Solano
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[819]
[WAYITWAS-2008-819]
In my last column, Luzena Stanley Wilson described her experiences of riding across the hills of Solano County around 1851 to visit her Wolfskill neighbors at Putah Creek and encountering the vast herds of grazing black Spanish steers.
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Rush family helped agriculture thrive in local area
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Bowen, Jerry
[657]
[WAYITWAS-2006-657]
I've often been asked why I think that knowing something about the past is important. Today, most of us don't even think about the fact that all the mistakes and the good decisions made by those who came before us have had a profound effect on our lives.
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