California

LYSANDER UTT a retired merchant of Tustin, is a “’49er.”  He was born in Wythe County, Virginia, June 1, 1824.  His parents, John and March (Criger) Utt were both natives of the Old Dominion, had a family of thirteen children, and moved to Jackson County, Missouri, in 1840, where the father died, in 1849.  The subject of this sketch, the third child in order of birth in the above family, worked at farming until the year named, when he came to California across the plains with an ox team. In Mariposa County he followed mining for two years, and then for twenty-three years he was engaged in teaming and farming in Placer County.  Two yeas ago he retired from active business, and will spend the evening of life on his fruit ranch near Tustin.  He has been very successful in his business pursuits, and is widely and favorably known.  Politically he is true to the principles of the Democratic party, and his genial disposition and cordiality are such as only the true “Southern spirit” can manifest.

In 1864 he married Miss Arvilla E. Platt, and they have one son, Charles E, who is now his father’s successor in the mercantile business at the old stand at the corner of Fourth and D streets in Tustin.

SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower California, from the Earliest Period of Occupancy to the Present Time.... - Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.
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