George C. Yount
| George Calvert Yount | |
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| Born | May 4, 1794 North Carolina |
| Died | October 5, 1865 (aged 71) Yountville, California |
| Resting place | Yountville, CA |
| Spouse(s) | Eliza Cambridge Wilds, |
| Children | Robert Wilds Yount, Frances Yount, and Elizabeth Ann Yount. |
| Relatives | Harry Yount, nephew. Daughter Elizabeth Ann married John Calvert Davis. Grandhildren: Mary Eliza, Elizabeth Ann, John Calvert. John Calvert Davis married Margarethe Claus. Great-granddaughter Sue Francis Davis married Stephen Cholomondley Maynard. Great-great-grandson Harry Cholomndley Yount Daker Maynard married Joan Alice Cosgrove. Great-great-great-granddaughters Mary Sue, Julie Ann and Sally Joan. Mary Sue married Dave Wellbeloved and bore: Great-great-great-great-grandchildren David, Elizabeth and John Wellbeloved. Mary Sue's second marriage to Earnest Reed produced Patrick and Alice Reed. Sally Joan married Paul Stephen Smith. IV grandsons Paul Bret and Wilson Blakely Smith. |
George Calvert Yount (May 4, 1794 – October 5, 1865) was a trapper in William Wolfskill's party from New Mexico and came to California in 1831. He was the first Euro-American permanent settler in the Napa Valley, where he was the grantee of two Mexican land grants. Yountville, California is named for him.
George C. Yount was born in Burke County, North Carolina, but grew up in Missouri. He fought in the War of 1812 and the Indian wars. Yount was a farmer but in 1826, after business difficulties, left his wife and three children in Missouri, and went to Santa Fe and became a fur trapper.
Yount eventually made his way to California, arriving in 1831 with the Wolfskill party. He trapped sea otter on the Santa Barbara Channel Islands. He went to Sonoma in 1834, where he was employed as a carpenter by General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. Through the influence of Vallejo, Yount received the Rancho Caymus land grant in 1836, and became the first permanent settler in the Napa Valley. He built a cabin, or block-house and a grist-mill. In 1843 he received the Rancho La Jota land grant on Howell Mountain north of Rancho Caymus, where he built a saw-mill. George C. Yount received a US patent on both of these grants with a total of 16,341 acres (66 km2).
A town known as Sebastopol was laid out on the property in 1855. However, a town in nearby Sonoma County had already laid claim to this name, and the town was renamed Yountville in 1867 after George Yount’s death.
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