JUDGE CHARLES FAYETTE LOTT  Charles Fayette Lott was born July 1 1824. He served in the Mexican American war where he showed bravery. He began to practice law in 1848 and worked for the Supreme Court of Illinois until, drawn by the adventure the West… Read More »Charles Fayette Lott

Born in 1854, Mary Jane Coon crossed the plains with her parents to Butte county at just 6 years old. In 1879 she married Pierce C. Richardson who had come from Iowa in 1866 and was living in Chico. Along with farming and raising stock… Read More »Mary Jane Richardson

THOMAS F WHIPPLE  Thomas F Whipple was the son of pioneers who traveled across the plains to California in1854. He was born October 4, 1861 at Merrimac or Pea Vine on the Oroville Quincy Road. Whipple married Mary Agnes Fahey of Oroville and they had… Read More »Thomas F. Whipple