History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . war. At Pine Bluff, Ark., onJuly 12, 186S, he was mustered out of service. Returning to Illinois, Mr. Carriker bought and improved land, and built for him-self a house, hewing the logs he needed in the construction; and at Jacksonville, 111.,he was married to Miss Mary J. Taylor, a native of that state, after which he followedfarming. In 1874, he sold out and located in Hamilton County
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . war. At Pine Bluff, Ark., onJuly 12, 186S, he was mustered out of service. Returning to Illinois, Mr. Carriker bought and improved land, and built for him-self a house, hewing the logs he needed in the construction; and at Jacksonville, 111.,he was married to Miss Mary J. Taylor, a native of that state, after which he followedfarming. In 1874, he sold out and located in Hamilton County, Nebr., where hehomesteaded 160 acres, and laid claim to 160 acres of timber, all of which he was the pioneer farmer there in the raising of grain and stock, but with suchobstacles as grasshoppers, droughts and hail storms, he found the going at timesrather uphill. In the fall of 1902 Mr. Carriker came to California and located at Orange, andhere bought the eight corner lots at Center and Maple streets, then a grain field. Hebuilt his residence at the corner, and then sold the balance of the lots. Later, hebought a lot at the corner of Grand and Maple streets, and there he owns four yKauLAUpL a^.ys^uocAM^^,,.,^, HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 915 He also bought an orange ranch of nine and a half acres at McPherson, took fourcrops from it, and then sold it for $12,000 more than he paid for it. Mr. Carrikers first wife died in Nebraska in 1882 and. left him with six resides at Orange; Nora, Mrs. James Benson, at Hastings, Nebr.; Cordelia,Mrs. Soward, and Cornelia, Mrs. Howard Benson, are in Giltner, Nebr.; Frank lives atBurwell, Nebr.; Mattie, became Mrs. Frost and lives at Santa Ana. When he married a second time, Mr. Carriker chose Miss Maggie Risk, a nativeof Point Pleasant, \V. as his wife; she was the daughter of William Risk, who hadmarried Elizabeth Kennedy, and the ceremony was performed at Hastings, Nebr., in1889. Both of her parents d
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