• Philander and wife crossed the plains with ox teams to California, driving with them a big herd of cattle. The completed their journey in the month of January, 1860, having been in continuous travel for a period of six months, twelve days. On reaching Ca. they located in San Joaquin Co., twelve miles north of Stockton at which time they lived until 1865. In that year they crossed the Siskiyou Mountains by wagon to Jackson Co., Oregon and located on Emigrant Creek, where Philander took up an homestead of eighty acres to which he later added by purchase, until he was the owner of two hundered and forty acres. There he continued to live until he died in 1893. They had six children, several who died young. Lydia was a member of the Methodist Espiscopal church.