John Abram Wayland (1849–1890) was the ninth President of the Chico Board of Trustees, the

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from 1889 to 1890. He was born in

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in 1849, the son of Dr. Joseph Franklin Wayland, and Emma S. R. McCullough Wayland. He came to Chico with his father, a prominent pharmacist.

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