Josephine Tychson

Josephine Marlin Tychson (March 5, 1855 - December 18, 1939) was the second woman to build and operate a winery in the Napa Valley.

[2] John Marlin (d. 1878) and Eliza (née Bower; 1823-1860), her parents, had also lived in Astoria, Oregon; Tychson was one of 8 children.

[2] In 1879, the young family moved to Denmark, where John took care of some affairs,[2] before returning to the United States.

They moved to the Napa Valley in northern California, where they purchased a 147 acres of land just north of St. Helena from William James Sayward, a sea captain.

[4][5] She lost her tuberculosis-afflicted husband to suicide at the Newland House Hotel in Oakland, leaving her to look after two children and the estate.