Posted on: Yuba County, California Biographies Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ca/YubaBios/39 Surname: LEMMON, CASSIDY, RUSSELL, MORGAN, DAY, SOBERANES, WYMAN ------------------------- ANDREW JACKSON LEMMON. A native son who has spent the better part of his life in Butte County is A. J. Lemmon, now a resident of Rackerby. He was born in San Francisco, January 8, 1858, a son of William and Jane (Cassidy) Lemmon, the former a native of Philadelphia, and a steam engineer, who came to California in 1852, via Cape Horn, and was engaged in placer-mining at Forbestown for several years; and the latter was a native of Ireland, who came to California when she was a young girl and here was married to Mr. Lemmon. She died at about sixty years of age. William Lemmon was murdered in 1895 when seventy years old, while going to his work in Forbestown, his assassin shooting him from a building beside the road. A. J. Lemmon was the oldest of a family of five children, four of whom are living. He was educated in the public schools of Butte and Yuba Counties. When twenty-one years of age, he was married to Miss Julia Russell, the ceremony occurring on December 25, 1879. She was born at Upham, Butte County, a daughter of Albert P. and Rosine (Morgan) Russell, natives of England and Iowa, respectively. The father crossed the plains to California in 1852. The mother, who was of Welsh parentage, also came across the plains, in an ox-team train with her parents, and it was here she and Mr. Russell became acquainted and were married. They followed mining and farming. Albert P. Russell died leaving an only daughter Julia, now Mrs. Lemmon; and afterward his widow became Mrs. Day. She spent the remainder of her days in Butte County; and it was in the public schools of that county that Julia Russell received her education. Her union with Mr. Lemmon has been blessed with five children. Edith is a teacher in the departmental school in Modesto. Annie is Mrs. Soberanes, of Marysville. Mamie is the wife of Ernest Wyman, of Rackerby. Harry heard his countrys call and volunteered his service to make the world safe for democracy, serving in the United States Navy and being assigned to duty on the McDougal, a submarine-chaser. He is now assisting his father in his ranching and horticultural enterprise. Andrew, who was in the 91st Division with the United States Expeditionary Forces serving over seas in France, is now residing in Modesto. In 1879 Mr. Lemmon engaged in mining at Brandy City, Sierra County, and also at Gibsonville, Plumas County, where he followed both hydraulic and drift mining, continuing for about ten years. From 1902 until 1916 he conducted a general merchandise store in Rackerby, where he owns twelve acres of land. Besides this property he had purchased in 1896 ninety acres near Wyandotte, in the Evansville precinct, Butte County, which he has set to peaches and figs, and which is irrigated from the Forbestown ditch. On his ranch he has about 100 gigantic fig trees of the Mission variety. These are as beautiful and productive fig trees as can be found in the State. Mr. Lemmon was for ten years postmaster at Rackerby, and now Mrs. Lemmon holds the commission, and is serving with credit in that capacity as well as having charge of the P. S. T. & T. office. Mr. Lemmon possesses excellent business judgment, is a man of true worth, and both he and his wife are highly esteemed by a large circle of friends in Butte and Yuba Counties. He is a member of the Owl Lodge at Challenge; and he has served as a trustee of the Rackerby school district for about nine years. Source: History of Yuba and Sutter Counties California, Peter J. Delay, Historic Record Co., Los Angeles, CA, 1924, pages 1123-1124 Andrew Jackson Lemmon, his wife Julia E (Russell) Lemmon, his daughter Edith, his sons Andrew and his wife Inez, and William Harry are all buried in the Upham Cemetery in Butte County.