The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-16
DEATH OF
]. Nj. HORNER
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wherever went, as I had never
thought q. success coming TO me from
anv other source. il never did. AFTER
becoming my own boss, which all
Young men were supposed to be III
New Jersey at the age Of p, and look
ing around and nothing better present
ing itself. I hired to a farmer TO WORK
during the summer and fall, for nine
dollars. per month and board and wash
inp IN the winter taught district
school. Thus passed my twenty-sec4
and year, as happy year as mas ever
fallen TO my lot to enjoy. I was just
as content working for thirty five cents
Nor dav as / was in after years, when
nv time for overseeing my business
nerteJ me thirty dollars per day, or
when my net income exceeded thirty
thousand dollars per year.
For two successive years after thaL
Young Horner went west as Tar as
iowa IN the spring, returning IN the
a,.t11nnr, to teach school, and having no
inclination to settle west on his second
return east he married a neighoor
daughter in January, 1S46.
1--WE left nay fathers house nex'
morning after marriage" ne writes D
wears later. ION what may be permit
ted to call our wedding tour, for Can
fornia. nv the way of New York, caps
Horn. Juan Fernandez Island and the
sandwich Islands. having previously
engaged passage on an ern1granr snip
bound for that far off and almost un-
known region. where we arrived IL
about six months, which, with tne
eighteen thousand miles Travelled. rem
t1ers this both in time and distance
| rather uncommon wedding tour.
War between Mexico and the UnlIeo
| states was raging in California wheE
/ they arrived, the upper part of the ter
| ritory being then IN possession o. ths
| United States forces and the lowel
part soon following. Some Of Horner'
| shin,s company volunteered with Coz
| Fremont to go down and help finish III
| the work. and all the male members O
/ his company took turns in standins
guard for about one month in what Il
80 car Francisco. The number o
/ tne7abitants of Yerba Buena (now > T..
when they arrived there was SAID
he forty. and the autobiographer say
! their les persons made an aadltloh
about 400 per cent to the population
{ HGTnHF goes Oh 10 AC4& u
| ing along with a companion names
! James Light, to put in crop OF Whea
| for DR.. John Marsh on shares
March. 1S47, Horner moved over TO IN
Mission de san Jose, where ne plande'
and sowed wheat. barley, peas ana Po
tatoes. together with various truck M
/ ing q nice garden, only 10 have al II
/ crops destroyed by grasshoppers, a.
| a ff4iction from which he never aLLe
/ suffered in the thirty odd years p
| farrned in that district. Later III u
season he planted potatoes but the
| were destroyed by cattle Nnen =
ana Tight called on DR.. Marsh for thel
/ snare Of the wheat stored in his gran
a~v. he "gravely'' informed them ina
their share was destroyed by elk. al.
1ana and afher wild animals, and TIA
only his own share was narVest91
r-7,ou-f he got no d liars for his HE
-aar.s farming in California, he did g
ar7,eriauce in soils, products and SD
s.,ne which ne prohted BY IN aLle
| yeas. He early discovered that zen zen
cling was essential and in Marcn, 49a'
ba x-ant "a the Redwoods with tElTe
! Tr4zans four yoke of oxen, and a Wag
IN and tools. TO get rails and posi-
| what with the fences he erected AZ AZ
bard.ng of cattle at night with a gal
which he fired to scare and not ~
them. he saved his crop the IL
realization he had of his initial I'M :
Years farging was two dollars paA
rim for wa1armelons IN September
1s49.
cod hunters had by now sWaTIlle
| into the country and on arrival no IL
seemed 10 be craved by their appe.ile
!, r7ueh as vegetables. Many Of theI
either had scurvy or were threaI eiie
BIZ II. They would eat raw on4 N:
~ notato with as great and appaFeH
relish as though It was nlce-IaNo -.
aT,nla His crop was worth 5000. ou
he lost half his potatoes by a LOO
. Vet what he did gather he consldeie
|. narffal compensation for his ION
N January, 1850, his brother william