A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . - railroad. By accident their horsesgot loose and started back along the road theyhad come. Father and son hastened after themand traveled along different roads, ^^hensixty-five miles from home the son found theteam and returned riding one horse and lead-ing the other. The family took up the difficulttask of converting raw prairie soil into culti-^?ated farm land and worked together in har-mony for their mutual interests. When theCivil war
A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . - railroad. By accident their horsesgot loose and started back along the road theyhad come. Father and son hastened after themand traveled along different roads, ^^hensixty-five miles from home the son found theteam and returned riding one horse and lead-ing the other. The family took up the difficulttask of converting raw prairie soil into culti-^?ated farm land and worked together in har-mony for their mutual interests. When theCivil war began the father was too old to en-list, but two of the sons went to the front andanother, whose name introduces this article,being unable to leave home, helped the causeby collecting mcMTey from those who were un-able to enlist, but wished to contribute to thefinancial support of the movement. The marriage of Air Dinsmoor occurred in1859 and united him with Miss Caroline Hull,who was born in New York, being a daughterof Aaron Hull, for years a deacon in the Pres-bvterian Church. In i86s Mr. and IMrs. Dins-. ^Jl^^, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 951 moor removed to the wilds of Minnesota andsettled upon an unimproved tract of land nearAustin, Mower county, in a region whereneighbors were few. For twenty years theyremained on that place, which increased insize under the owners energetic managementuntil there were sixteen hundred acres in onebody and under his shrewd financial oversighian indebtedness of $20,000 was eventually en-tirely defrayed. Crops varied on the farm intheir productiveness, as in every region wherewheat is the main product. In 1877 he raisedsixteen thousand bushels of grain, of whichten thousand were wheat, but the followingyear the tide of fortune changed and he lostthe entire crop of wheat, comprising sevenhundred acres. The first visit made b} Mr. Diiismoor toCalifornia was during the winter of he came west in 1887. and then on NewYears
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