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 . ealthiest men in that he went to Wilton, that state,there opening a bank of which he himself waspresident, a position which he was filling atthe time of his death in 1884, when he wasseventy years of age. He left an estate valuedat between $50,000 and $60,000, all of whichaccumulation was the result of his own efforts,for he started out to make his own way empty-handed. The ancestry on the paternal sidecan be traced l
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 . ealthiest men in that he went to Wilton, that state,there opening a bank of which he himself waspresident, a position which he was filling atthe time of his death in 1884, when he wasseventy years of age. He left an estate valuedat between $50,000 and $60,000, all of whichaccumulation was the result of his own efforts,for he started out to make his own way empty-handed. The ancestry on the paternal sidecan be traced liack in direct line to Revolu-tionary times, and was of Dutch origin. Onthe maternal side the family is of German ex-traction, and it is thought that the earliestemigrant settled in Maryland, for the familyflourished there for many generations. was born and reared in Maryland,but soon after her marriage removed to Iowa,in which state her death occurred when shewas in her eighty-seventh year. Both herselfand husband were members of the ReformedChurch. lentil reaching his majority John AVildasinremained at home and gave his services to his. J)vV-ZX--»<-d.^-<?<3<3 \yc<*^ c<L^ HLSTORKAI. AND BIOGRAPHICAL RRCORD. 623 father, and when he was twenty-six inheritedfrom the latter two hundred acres of the home-stead. There he conducted quite an exten-sive business in the raising of horses and cat-tle for about eight years, when, in 1884, afterdisposing of his interests in Iowa, he came toCalifornia and purchased his present 12. 1878, John Wildasin and Mag-dalena Crusius were united in marriage in Illi-nois. ;\lrs. Wildasin was born in Bavaria,Germany, where her father, George Crusius,was a farmer, his death occurring there whenhe was sixty-two years old. His wife, LouisaGuth in maidenhood, was also a native ofBavaria, and some time after his death broughther family to the United States, in 1863, set-tling in Pennsylvania. Two years later s
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