Biographies

Below is a list of persons that have held the office of supervisor in Napa County since 1852. This is a continuing (uncompleted) project! - we hope you enjoy reading about their stories as we develop them.

The biographies on this website have been compiled largely from the eight resources listed below, as well as census records, voter registers, vital statistics (birth/marriage/death), and cemetery records.  Full bibliographic references can be found by clicking on each resource.

Menefee (1873)
Menefee, Campbell Augustus, Historical and Descriptive Sketch Book of Napa, Sonoma, Lake, and Mendocino. Napa City: Reporter Publishing House (1873). {Google book; digitized 2008}

Smith & Elliott (1878)
Smith, Clarence L. & Wallace W. Elliott, Illustrations of Napa County California with historical sketch. Oakland: Smith & Elliott (1878)

Palmer (1881)
Palmer, Lyman, History of Napa and Lake Counties, California. San Francisco: Slocum, Bowen & Company (1881). {Google book; digitized 2005}

Lewis (1891)
Memorial and biographical history of Northern California. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company (1891). {Digitized at https://archive.org}

Wallace (1901)
History of Napa County. Editor: W.F. Wallace; compiled by Tillie Kanaga. Oakland, CA: Enquirer Print (1901). {Google book; digitized 2012}

Irvine (1905)
History of the New California Its Resources and People, Volume I. Editor: Leigh H. Irvine. Chicago, IL: Lewis Publishing Company (1905). {Digitized at the History of the New California Its Resources and People website.}

 [Biographies section ONLY was consulted.]

Gregory (1912)
Gregory, Thomas Jefferson, History of the Solano and Napa Counties, California: With Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the Counties who Have Been Identified with Its Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present Time. Los Angeles, CA: Historic Record Company (1912). 1043 pages.  [Google book, original from UC, digitized 2012.]  [Book is also searchable at ancestry.com]

Hunt & Gunn (1926)
Hunt, Marguerite, and Harry Lawrence Gunn, History of Solano County and Napa County, California. Chicago, IL: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co. (1926).