John F. Willis was from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He traveled to California via the Platte River in 1850 and in 1852 was elected sherriff of Colusi County, California. In 1859, he married Marcella Moran, a native of Ireland, in St. Francis Church, San Francisco, California.
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