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Pacific Methodist College From Hester A. Harbison I get certain facts, on my trip to Vaca Valley about May 122, 1941, about the old college. Class of 1864 Matthew Fountain Johnson (lawyer, Sacramento) Laura Lucky, daughter of President Lucky Melissa Allison Josephine Allison Samuel Creighton Campbell Poulson Berry Zebulon Butler Donaldson ----- Finlay Hattie Williams (sister of Frank Williams), She married Frank Vail Crittenden Wilson, son of Mason Wilson And two more Mrs. Harbison does not remember -Continued p. 197
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The Native Trees And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. _ Kubla Khan. -Edwin Markham has a poem on the Suisun Hills and the _sycamores_ in its canyons. I am confident there are no sycamore in western Solano County south of Putah Creek. Are there any along Putah Creek? Along the Sacramento River east, yes. Putah Creek, I cannot recall. -In the very earliest day as we drove about the countryside there is fixed in my memory fence lines on the Arculus Hawkins place, the posts of oak which must have been split from the trunks of the Valley Oak.
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