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REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01067 7075
HISTORY OF SONOMA COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
OF
The leading men and women of the County, who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present time
HISTORY BY TOM GREGORY GC 979.401
505% ILLUSTRATED Complete in one volume
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
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PREFACE
When I sought to collect material for a story of Sonoma I soon found myself reaching out into the history proper of California. Every trail leading to this county runs back into the earlier times of the state. The Spanish-Amer- ican settlement of Sonoma was planned in the City of Mexico. The coming to Sonoma of the Mission San Francisco de Solano can be traced backward through San Rafael, Dolores, San Jose, Santa Clara, Carmelo and kindred institutions to the southern end of Alta California. Sonoma began at San Diego,-the first adobe laid in 1769, the last in 1823 completing the rosary of the missions. Territorial records having their opening chapters in Our City of the Angels, had their ending in Sonoma. The various governments sitting at various capitals marked Sonoma a key position on the line of the northern frontier. The legislative events occurring in Monterey were soon manifest in Sonoma. The first statesman of the California political period was the Coman- dante of Sonoma. When plotting officials snarled and wrangled from San Jose to ) San Diego they in turn sought the adherence of Sonoma; and when these same plotters were preparing to hand this logical-territory of the Great Repub- lic over to the tenderness and the tenaciousness of an European protectorate, the little game largely was blocked by that same Mexican military commander of Sonoma. When Fremont, advised by Benton at Washington, collected the American settlers for the first strike, they struck at Sonoma; and Commodore Sloat, U. S. N., raised the Stars and Stripes over the country only after he had heard of the Bear Flag at Sonoma.
At an earlier day that jolly pirate, Drake, came hurrying along this shore with two millions of Spanish gold and several millions of leaking holes in his weather-beaten and battle-worn little ship; and while the carpenter on the beach was pumping the Pacific ocean out of the craft, he made out the title- deeds and calmly presented the whole coast to Queen Elizabeth,-nothing small about Francis. The hungry and frost-bitten Russians from the north found the Sonoma littoral an excellent summer-resort, and for thirty years the double- headed eagle of the Czar from the palisades of Fort Ross screamed defiance ont of his two throats at his brother-bird of Mexico.
So these trails, like the great "Camino Real," reach towards Sonoma,- not hidden under the overgrowth of the years, but standing out in the light of history. They come up from the south over llano and mesa, over piney slopes and oaken meadows, along the sharp ridges and through the dark canyons where the pilgrim-priest sore-beset clasped tightly the symbol of his salvation fearful that death would meet him on the way; over the sunlit hills where the oats tassled at his corded waist and the poppies dropped their golden petals over his sandled feet. along the wild beaches when the wind was on the waves and the shore-breaking billows lifted their deep organ-bass in the chant to Him who made the sea. Then in the rare Indian Valley of the Moon the Padre Pathfinder planted the cross and called to prayer, "In Nomine Patris."
Sonoma-Wonderland of this Wondrous State-Masterpiece of creative power, a garden-place of fruitage and bloom-true domain of Luther Burbank, birthplace of the Flag of the Golden West. There is no rincon-no corner within her mountain walls that is not stamped with the golden pages of California's living history. If this indifferent story of Sonoma were worthy, it would be dedicated to her greatest historical character-him who sleeps at Lachryma Montis.
Santa Rosa, 1911.
TOM GREGORY.
.RY, INC. . N. MA'
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. PAGE
SONOMA-VALLEY OF THE MOON. 5
Fitting Indian Title-The Fair Amazonian "Califa"-Empire Between River and Bay Between Mountain and Sea-The Beginning by Ca- brillo at San Diego-Telling the Rosary of the Missions-San Fran- cisco de Solano.
CHAPTER II.
SONOMA ENTERS CALIFORNIA HISTORY. IO Five Flags Have Waved Here-Sir Francis Drake and New Albion -Russians Come Hunting Sea Otters-Bodega and His Bay-Greek and Roman Crosses On Sonoma Soil.
CHAPTER III.
HIDDEN IN THE COAST RANGE .. 1.4 Vegas and Mesas of Never-Failing Fertility-Two Means of Tempera- ture Walk Hand in Hand-Where the Poppy Yellows the Plain- Kingdom of Luther Burbank-St. Helena, the Mother Mountain of the Sonoma Hills.
CHAPTER IV.
CONCEPCION AND HER RUSSIAN LOVER. . . 18 An Imaginary Spanish Snub Brings the Moscovians Down the Coast -"Pioneer Squatters" of California-Early "Boom" Price of Sonoma Real Estate-Harvesting the Sea and Shore.
CHAPTER V.
EL FUERTE DE LOS RUSOS. .... 22 Fierce Letter-War Between Madrid and St. Petersburg via Intermedi- ate Points-"Hold the Fort"-Shipbuilding in Sonoma-How the Gringos Came-The Russians Go.
CHAPTER VI.
CAPTAIN SUTTER ABSORBS THE RUSSIAN REALTY.
25 A Secret Land Deal-The Gun of Austerlitz-Valhalla Becomes "Wolholler"-Fort Ross Dismantled.
CHAPTER VII.
THE SPANIARD REACHES SONOMA. ... 29 At "The Point of the Creeks"-Planting the Mission Faith and the Mission Grapes-Stripping the Padres-The "Pions Fund"-Pueblo Sonoma.
CHAPTER VIII.
MARIANO GUADALUPE VALLEJO. .
34 Premier Californian and First American Citizen of the New State-A Patriot and Advocate of Annexation to the United States.
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CHAPTER IX.
MEXICAN STATE OF ALTA CALIFORNIA.
38 The Secularized Indian Back to the Wilds-Humane Laws for the Ex-Neophyte-Vallejo a Busy Official-The Carrillos-A Governor- Ridden Land.
CHAPTER X.
A FREE AND EASY PEOPLE. ... 43 Uncomely but Comfortable Adobe Dwellings-Wise Old Mother Spain Understood Her Simple Children-Solomonic Alcaldes-Abduc- tion of Josephine-Life on the Ranchos-Spurs of a California Knight.
CHAPTER XI.
THE DIGGER IN HIS EMINENT DOMAIN. . Natural Unattractiveness-Indian Table Luxuries and Manners-A Grasshopper Meal When Other Far: Failed-Chief Solano the Faith- ful Friend of Vallejo.
52
CHAPTER XII.
"LACHRYMA MONTIS," HOME OF VALLEJO. 58 In the Valley of the Rose-California Girls and Their Broad Acres- Old Adobes That Are Crumbling Back to Mother Earth-Sonoma in "The Roaring Forties"-Just "Before the Gringo Came."
CHAPTER XIII.
APPEARANCE OF THE PATHFINDER. 62 Gillespie Brings Fremont Secret Orders-The Surveyor Turns Back to Sutter's Fort-Corralling Castro's Horses-Americans Ride to So- noma.
CHAPTER XIV.
"REPUBLIC OF CALIFORNIA" 65 Won with a Breakfast Instead of a Battle-The Capture of Sonoma Spiked the British Guns -- All Planned at Washington-Settling the Slavery Question in California.
CHAPTER XV.
COMMODORE SLOAT AT MONTEREY .. 69
Follows Fremont and Hoists the Flag Ashore-Where Jones Was Too Fast Sloat Was Too Slow-Setting the Commodore a Pace- President W. B. Idc.
CHAPTER XVI.
FREMONT THE MAN OF THE HOUR. 72 All Other American Officers On the Pacific Coast Disavow Him- The Pathfinder as Usual Sets His Lines and Makes No Mistakes- Country Without a Flag.
CHAPTER XVII.
PAINTING THE BANNER OF THE BEAR. 77 The Lone Star of Texas-Grizzly Passant-Native Daughter's Red Petticoat-The General Said "Bueno"-Relative of Old Abe-Gallant Yankee Middy-Bear Flag Yet On Duty.
CHAPTER XVIII.
BRINGING ORDER OUT OF THE WILDS. 83 Fierce Mexican War-Words-Murder of Cowie and Fowler-Ban- croft's Bro-Mexican Views-Clearing Out the Country.
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CHAPTER XIX.
CASTRO ON THE WAR PATH .. 87
De La Torre Eludes The Pathfinder-Unjustifiable Killing of Three Californians-Sutter's Fort-California Republic Celebrates "The Fourth."
CHAPTER XX.
COUNTRY DRIFTING TO UNCLE SAM
9I Old Glory Comes Ashore-The "First Flag Day"-Sutter Becomes An American Citizen-The Grizzly Passant Passes-Stars and Stripes Are Over California.
CHAPTER XXI.
THE HISTORIAN CONTINUES THE CONFLICT. .... 95 On the Trail of the Bear-Only a Deep Sea Yarn-The Paths Fre- mont Found-The War of the Gold Braid-Petty Persecution of the Pathfinder-Fremont Tried and Exonerated.
CHAPTER XXII.
GENERAL VALLEJO IN CALIFORNIA HISTORY. . 102 Imprisonment of the Sonoma Comandante the Only Error of the Bear Flaggers-He Was More American Than Mexican-Generosity His Only Fault.
CHAPTER XXIII.
CALIFORNIA THE MECCA OF A MIGHTY PILGRIMAGE. . . 104 The Great Trek Into the West-Sierras Bar the Way-In Donner's Dreary Glen of Death-Under Their White Pall-Among Those He- rocs the Women and Children Fared Best-Wild Gales of Nevada Boom Their Requiem.
CHAPTER XXIV.
JOHN A. SUTTER AND HIS FORT. . . . . 108 Wanted to S?II Out Before the War-Forgot to Have Smith Ar- rested-He Forgot to Return-Some Americans Were Horse Thieves -Official Locusts That Devour the Earth.
CHAPTER XXV.
WHEN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA WAS NOT A STATE. .113 "Legislature of a Thousand Drinks"-Started the War of the Re- bellion-Sonoma's Bear on the Great Seal-California Forcing Her Way Into the Union-Drawing the Negro and the Boundary Lines- Uncle Sam's Grand Land Deal.
CHAPTER XXVI.
SACRAMENTO CORRALS THE STATE CAPITAL. . . 119 Vallejo Makes a Golden Offer-The Legislature Accepts-Sacramento Flealess if Not Flawless-San Francesco at Last Gets a Name- Benicia Sees the Legislators Go Up the River.
CHAPTER XXVII.
SONOMA COUNTY SETTLES DOWN TO HOUSEKEEPING. . . . . . 123 When "Oro" Was Heard Around the World-Harvesting the Gold of Farm and Mine-Changes on the Great Ranchos-When the Mustang Galloped Out of the Twilight-The Early Californians Gave Away Their Lands-Live Today and Work Mañana.
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CHAPTER XXVIII.
CAPTAIN STEPHEN SMITH OF BODEGA. .
.129
Ready for a Fight or a Fandango-A Famous Pioneer Picnic-Val- lejo's Prediction Comes True-Old Sonoma Land Grants-Chain of the Missions-Strenuous Day of the Squatter-Petaluma and the Miranda Ghost.
CHAPTER XXIX.
PEOPLING THE RICH SONOMA VALLEYS. ... 139 Shades of the Old Adobe Halls-Sonoma the Vineyard of the World -The In-Dwelling Spirit of the Mission Grape-Pressed and Blessed by Church-Warm Volcanic Soil-From the Padre's Early Vines.
CHAPTER XXX.
VULCAN-BUILDER OF A CONTINENT. 146 The Redwoods Grew Deep-Devil-Waters for the Healing of the Nations-Hot Springs and Sweat-Houses-The County Seat Question -How Jim Williamson "Stole the Courthouse"-A Hundred Minute Mule Run-In Memoriam-Roll of Honor.
CHAPTER XXXI.
WITHIN THE VALE OF SANTA ROSA DE LIMA .... 153 Parson Amoroso Makes One Convert-Rosa Slips Wraith-Like Away But Leaves Her Name-Marring the Tonal Harmonies of Span- ish Titles-The Old Carrillo Adobe-Tragedy of Franklin Town.
CHAPTER XXXII.
MAPPING OUT THE CITY OF THE ROSE. .. . . 159 Perplexing Thoroughfare Names-Alphabetic and Presidential Streets -Pioneer Mannerisms-Hahmann Wanted Plenty of Churches- Building the Temple of Themis-A Squad of the Old Guard.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
THE CHANGES OF THE YEARS. . .. .164 And the Railroad Dirt Flew-And the Printers Came Also-Hop Cul- ture-Utopias of Sonoma County-Fountain Grove and Its Faith That Failed-A Word-Storm Genesis.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
THOROUGHBRED HORSES OF SONOMA COUNTY. ,169 When Lou Dillon Flung Her Silver Heels-Her Marvelous 1:581/2- A Nursery for Prize Trotters-Crossing the Blue-Bloods-Anteeo and His Speed Band-Racing With Father Time.
CHAPTER XXXV.
PETALUMA AND HER NAME ORIGIN. ... .174 Guadalupe Vallejo Boggs-In the Fall of Forty-Nine-Or Spring of Fifty-The Settlers "Dropped In"-Always Fritsch and Zartman- How "Harry" Mecham Got Here.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
TRAGEDY OF THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE BELL. .. . . 182 Its Golden Voice Filled the Valleys-Even Called the Santa Rosans to Repentance-Petaluma Thought of Arresting the County Seat- Destroyed in the Night-The Pioneer Class of Fifty-Six.
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CHAPTER XXXVII.
CITY OF THE LITTLE CHICKS. . .187 When the Hen Cackles a Market Falls-Science Does the Hatching- Byce the Incubator Man-Eggs for Far Cathay-Does An Incubator "Set" or "Sit?"
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
WHERE THE ANALY APPLE GROWS. ..
.. 190 How Sebastopol Got Her War-Sounding Name-Incident of the Crimea-The Tempting Gravensteins-Apples and Women in Mythol- ogy-Fruitful Orchards and Vineyards of Gold Ridge-Ocean and Salt Point Townships.
.CHAPTER XXXIX.
NATURE'S ANCIENT GROVE-REDWOOD TOWNSHIP. . .. 196 Among the Tall Sequoias-Whirr of the Mill is the Dirge of the Tree-Armstrong Woods-Along the Rio Russian-Valley of the Sotoyomes.
CHAPTER XL.
DALE OF THE CLOVER BLOOM ... 20I Where Asti's Wine Sleeps Under the Mountain-Steamy Geysers of Knights Valley-Garden of Chemicals and Floods of Satanic Brew- Dead Trees Their Own Gravestones-In this Wonder of Wonderlands.
CHAPTER XLI.
IN THE EARTHQUAKE'S DEADLY ZONE. .206 Santa Rosa Shattered in a Half-Minute-Then the Builders Began Building-Labor the Only Capital-A City Riveted to the Planet- The Newer Santa Rosa.
CHAPTER XLII.
LUTHER BURBANK-TRAVELER IN PLANTLAND. ..... 212 A Child Amid the Flowers-Giving Golden Poppy a Red Gown- The Great Shasta Daisy-Making the Cactus Cast Its Thorns-Un- known to His Countrymen-Wizardry-Down in the Life-Crypt of the Flower-Plant and Child Training.
CHAPTER XLIII.
FARMERS' ORGANIZATIONS OF SONOMA COUNTY .. 224 Agricultural Societies-The First Grange-Feast of Pomona-Among the Farms-Assessed Valuation of 1910-Sonoma Exhibits at the Fairs-Death of G. N. Whitaker-Rest.
CHAPTER XLIV.
SONOMA COUNTY STATISTICS.
.246 Assessed Property Valuation of 1911-Present Population-Sonoma County Schools-Table of County Officials from 1849 to 1911.
INDEX
A
Birkhofer, Carl 880
Abel, George L.
806
Blackburn, Charles
606
Ackerman, B. D.
818
Blackburn, Frank L.
357
Adams, Elmer F.
611
Blackburn, John S. 602
Adams, Samuel E.
933
Blank, John
1001
Adler, Adam W.
455
Bline. James P.
788
Aguida, Augustine
1052
Bloom, Adolph J.
438
Aldrich, Edgar D
1068
Bloom, Americo J.
438
Alexander, Cyrus
792
Bloom, James B. 438
947
Allen, Samuel I
1006
Bodwell, Charles A.
408
Alves, John J.
821
Bohan. Miles
613
Anderson, Alexander, M. D.
371
Bolla, Battista
689
Anderson, John
713
Bolla, Elvezio B
596
Andrews, John H.
1002
Bondietti, Frank
612
Andrews. William C.
1018
345
Arenberg, Herman F
545
Bonniksen, John J
577
Arfsten, Carl W
1005
Bourke, A. F.
509
Arnhart, William H
1085
Bourke, William
1039
Atchinson, Austin J
595
Bowman, Henry C.
456
Atwater, H. H
720
Bowman, William F.
946
Austin, Granville T.
728
Boyes, Mrs. Antoinette C.
299
Austin, Herbert W.
32]
Boyes, Capt. Henry E
297
Austin, James
850
Boyse, Alexander E.
823
Boyson, Conrad C ..
629
Brandt, Alonzo B
665
Brown, Charles
594
Brown, Samuel
449
Bruner, Grant
876
Bruner, John
876
Burgess, James F
811
Burris, L. W
346
Bussman, Peter W
874
Bailhache, Mrs. Josephine.
494
Bailiff, John
786
Bailiff, John D.
752
Baker, Albert
1017
Baker, Charles A.
1004
Barham, Aubrey
758
Barlow, Thomas E.
1075
Cable. I. N 1077
671
Cahill, James 879
Campigli, F. C ... 1064
1082
Barnes. W. P.
952
Casarotti, Americo 1081
Barnett, Harry J.
799
Casarotti, Filippo G. 1106
Barry, Rev. M. J.
1082
Cassiday, Samuel
1015
Barry, William R.
1016
Cassin, John M.
815
Bassett. William D
1003
Charles, Elbert R.
635
Bassi, Rocco
1046
Chauvet, Henry J.
335
Batchelor, David W
431
Chauvet, Joshua
328
Bauer, John W.
809
Cheney, John M. 339
Beeson, Edward I.
812
Chenoweth, Charles J 383
Bell, George K .. 832
950
Clark, Louis W 844
Beretta, Joseph 1104
Clark, W. L .. . 600
Bettinelli, Antonio 1103
Clarke, James P 829
Bettinelli, Fillip
672
Cline, Owen J.
1042
Bidwell, Ira
440
Clough, Manley E 601
Bidwell, James
464
Collins, F. M 407
Bidwell, John
378
Combi, Giovani 1102
Bird, Edward
805 Comerford, Rev. T. J
970
B
Babbino, Mike 1059
Bacon, Lafayette W.
731
Byce, Lyman C.
503
C
Barlow, Solomon Q
584
Cadwell, Alexander
Barnes, Edwin H.
259
Barnes, Miss Florence M.
704
Barnes, William H.
816
Canepa, Giovanni
Ayers, William
683
Ayers, William D.
951
Ayers, William H. M.
836
Butler, Charles H 800
Christensen, John 959
Benjamin. Alexander
Bish, Lewis M.
953
Alexander, Thomas
533
Bock, David
Bones, William H.
xii
INDEX
Comstock, Hubert G. 817
Comstock, William
716
Fetters, George 618
Conkle, Jacob 959
Filippini, Achille 1051
Connolly, John D 363
Filippini. Charles 1033
Cook, Thomas G. 822
Fitch, Charles 492
Cordano. Giovanni 1047
Fognini, Peter 1049
Folsom, Fred N., M. D. 491
Foresti, Rafael 1061
Fowler. John H .. 530
1014
Cozzens, Davenport, Jr. 1071
589
Crystal, Melvin R.
482
Cullen, Frederick T. 945
Cummings, Lawrence Q. 1062
Cummings, Michael E. 1000
Cunningham. John
322
Cunningham, Robert 985
Cunningham, William J.
878
D
Dahlmann. Frederick 588
Dahlmann, Henry 607
Daken, S. T. 1072
Dambrogi, John
608
Dannhausen, William
1063
Dayton, William A
410
De Bernardi. E.
1053
Denman. Hon. Ezekiel
445
Gibson, James W 1073
Giggey, Robert A 1013
Gilman, P. E 397
Gisel, Herman 884
Goatley, Armsted 969
Goeller, John 637
Dinucci, Angelo
1064
Goodenough, Monroe E. 981
Gossage, Jerome B 593
Gould. Captain Nathaniel 351
968
Graves, George W., M. D. 798
505
Downs, Vernon 975
Doyle, Manville
511
Drago, Margaret T.
945
Drees, Emil E. 954
Droshach, Mrs. Fredricka F 875
Drouillard. Joseph W
873
Duerson, John H. 619
Grove, William H. 745
Guglielmetti, Giovanni 581
Gustafson, C. .
943
Gutermute, John M. 998
F
Eades, George H 401
Early. William H. 540
Eckert, Albert 1084
Eckert, Frederick 1084
Eckman, Jonathan 452
Edgeworth. William J 312
Elder. William 804
Elphick, Henry, Jr. 955
Elphick, James F. 948
Elzi Brothers 944
English, David B. 861
English, Joseph
1067
Evans, Edward W. M. 972
Evart, William
497
F
Fairbanks, Hiram T 1078
Fehr, Jacques
882
H
Hall, Albert S. 838
Hall, Clarence C. 743
Hall, George A. 578
Hall, L. J. . . 886
Hallberg, John F 1031
Hallengren, Svente P. 1029
Halley, Robert E. L. 488
Hammell, Henry 552
Hansen. John 997
Hansen, Ole 761
Harbine, Hardy R .. 995
Hardin, Henry A. 721
Hardin, Jefferson R. 967
Harris, Richard J 398
Hart, D. B.
702
Hart, Marion
1088
G
Gale, L D. 885
Gallaway, Allen R
323
Garloff, August 620
Garzoli, Arnold F 626
Garzoli, Joseph 1105
Garzoli, Peter 1050
Gaye, Mercelin 999
Genazzi, Elio M. 632
Geuglima, G. 1105
Giberson, John K. 943
Denman, Frank H .. 506
Denner, Russell 605
De Rezendes, Manuel. 1045
De Turk. Isaac. 462
Dillon, Charles H 614
Dixon, John T 572
Douglas, A. S. 877
Douglas, George B. 824
Dowd, Frank F. 1037
Dowd, John W. 624
Gray, James W
Greenwood. Lord W
644
Gregory, Harvey
931
Greppi, Sylvester
1091
Grider. Newton J
1032
Griffith, Nathaniel A
714
Grohe, Frederick 940
Dufranc, Vitale 1087
Durand, Victor 587
Fenk. Frank 971
Coulson Ponttry and Stock Food Co. 499
Covey, William 1066
Cowan, William F 353
Cox, John J .. 719
Fredericks, Morris H.
Frei. Andrew 1035
Fulkerson, Richard 750
Fuller, Charles E 737
Furlong, James 883
Crawford, Richard F
Fremont, John C. 388
Graham, Thomas J.
xiii
Hartsock, Adolphus
791
Lambert, William S. 990
Haskell, Barnabas
744
Lamoreaux, George W 920
Haskell, William B.
740
Landis, A. L ... 938
Herbert, Lewis 554
Larison, Samuel 668
Hesse, Fred W
887
Lasher, George A 698
Higby, Earl I)
888
Laton. A. H
890
Hill, Robert P.
303
Lauritzen, Christian 485
Hill, William
275
Lauritzen, Jeppe C. 479
Hoar. Benjamin F., Jr.
631
Lauritzen, John
966
Hockin, William
726
Lauritzen, Knudt 929
Hodges, Harry C
749
Lawrence, Henry E. 957
Hooten, M. V.
927
Laymance, George W 480
Hopper, Thomas
433
Lea, Clarence F
463
Hopper, Wesley L.
336
I eahy, Rev. Jeremiah 1098
Leonard, S. C .. 499
Leslie, John 708
Hotle, Charles E ..
333
I.everoni. G. B .. 993
Howard. William C.
691
I.ewis, Charles H. 715
Howell, Thomas W
673
Lewis, Charles W. 515
Hoyt Brothers 994
Lewis, John B. 457
Hubbell, Orton
678
Hunt, Richard P.
437
Hunt, William J. 655
Hutchinson, Samuel
575
Lippitt, Edward S. 315
I
Irwin, George
925
Italian Swiss Colony 376
J
Jacobs, George H. 395
M
McAfee, Charles 690
McCandless, John 891
McCargar, Hugh S. 524
MeChristian, James 641
Mccutcheon. Arthur A. 892
Jones, Joseph C.
727
McDonald, Mark L., Jr. 360
Jones, J. Noble
1008
Jones, William
939
Jones, William D.
977
Joy, T. B
563
McNear, John A.
263
Juhl, Hans 935
317
Juilliard, Louis W.
327
K
Karr, Bertel M 625
Kelly, Charles 599
Kelly, James P. 989
Kelly, James W. 992
Kelly, John W. 767
Kent, James E. 697
Keough, Michael 1099
King, George E. 926
King, Theodore G. 912
Matzen, Peter
548
Mazza, Romildo L
1101
Knittel, Joseph 889
Knowles, James H.
310
Knowles, William H.
311
Koch, Reuben 1023
Mecham, Harrison
854
Meek, Thomas
662
Meek, Thomas B., Jr
470
Meeker, Melvin C .. 289
Mell, Joseph 1027
Merritt, John 751
Meyer, Lawrence
1028
Lafranchi, John
1084
Miller, Thomas B
956
I.uttringer, Joseph 773
Lynch, John 1007
Jacobsen, John H 1011
Jamieson, Daniel J. 1040
Jensen, Jens C. 547
384
Johnson, William
738
Jones, Brainerd
701
McDonald, Mark L. 257
Mc Elroy, William 846
McNamara, Thomas B 354
McPeak, Anthony 523
Maclay, Thomas 666
Maestretti, Antonio 1096
Maggetti, Peter 547
Mancini, Dominico
1065
Mandarini, Remigio
1058
Manion, William 661
Manion, William H.
922
Mann, Edwin E. 1108
Martin, Albert P.
541
Martin, Mrs. Frances McG. 569
Martin, Leopold 535
Masciorini. Joseph 1057
Mather, William 1070
King, William 941
Meagher, Thomas F
300
Mecchi, Giovanni 1068
Mecham. Franklyn A. 1012
Korbel Brothers 900
Kuhnle, Perry 529
L
Lafranchi, Albino A. 1049
Lafranchi, Edward E. 825
Lewis, William A. 915
Lichau, Henry P .. Jr 863
Liggett, William T 928
Lock, William H 965
Lorenzini, D. 677
Loser, J. B. 988
Lumsden, Arthur G .. M. D. 898
Luppold, J. . 924
Jesse. J. W., M. D.
Horn, J. W. 674
Hotchkiss, Benonia 930
Juilliard, Charles F.
INDEX
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INDEX
Mitchell, Samuel S.
979
Proschold. Edwin M 517
Mock, Wesley
425
Prunk, George E. 450
Mock, William 1045
Puccioni, Angelo 1102
Moebes, August 1067
Purrington, Samuel W.
443
Moke, H. H.
974
Montgomery, De Witt.
Q
Mooney, Thomas
1112
Quanchi, Gilo
1100
R
Ramatici, Charles 725
Rambo, James H 881
Rand, Edward C. 917
Reid, Joseph B. 638
1041
Ricioli, Achille
649
Rickman, David H.
659
Nay, Lewis G.
467
Nay, Samuel A.
856
Neil, John 987
1025
Nesbitt, James R.
894
Newburgh, Edward
914
Nicoletti, Carlos 1097
Rosie, James R 937
Ross, George A.
286
Nisson, Erick P.
563
Noble, W. L. J.
877
Ross, Losson 305
Nobles, Hermon
866
Ross, William 770
Nolan, Charles P
857
Nunn, Newton R.
1024
Rossi, P. C. 317
642
0
S
O'Farrell, Jasper 565
Sacchi, Silva 1111
O'Leary, Edwin F 986
Sanborn, George D. 781
Oellig, Howard H 1038
Sanborn, George N. 330
Offutt, Charles A. 762
Sandberg, John 810
Oliver, Charles C. 835
Sartori, Arcangelo 707
893
Sbarboro, Andrea
376
Scatena, Martin
837
Schieck, Hermann
558
Schieffer, William H 963
Schultz, Gustav 961
Scott, John C .. 469
499
Seawell, Judge Emmett.
481
Shaffer, Reuben H.
571
Paxton, B. W .. 292
Shaver, Eli S ..
1044
Peoples, Joseph S. 653
Shelley, William N
985
Shelton, Abram C.
794
Simi, Casimiro 1054
830
Petersen, Peter 1022
Sinclair, James
733
Peterson, Allen
1110
Singley, Frank B.
1020
Petray, F.dwin A 696
Singley, Hon. James T
404
Skiffington, John
962
Pickrell, Charles E.
654
Slattery, Patrick A.
1083
Plow, Carl
1021
Poehlmann, Conrad
539
Smith, John K.
518
Smith, Patrick
911
Pool, Charles A.
534
Smith, William E.
779
Poppe, Charles J.
375
Snider, Mrs. Jane.
683
Poulin, Louis 918
895
Power Co. 785
Price, Wesley A.
849
Spencer, Byron M. 686
865
Riebli, Arnold B.
1048
Riebli, Sebastian 1056
Rielly, George
899
Robinson, Willianı J
387
Rodd, Samuel 909
Nisson, Christian
923
Rickman, George T.
660
Ridenhour, Lewis W
Nerz, John
1074
Mossi, James
1107
Mowbray, James R.
921
Murdock, Glenn E.
415
N
Nagle, Frederick G 1026
667
Morris, Harry B.
341
Morse, Stephen C ..
309
Moser, August
427
901
Mordecai, W. B
Moretti, G.
Rule, John
Ottmer, Henry C., M D 461
Overton, Albert P.
402
P
Parker, Freman 647
Patocchi, Benjamin J 1086
Patten, Richard R 734
Patterson, Azel S .. 557
Perkins, Dr. R. E. 826
Petaluna & Santa Rosa R. R. Co. 919
Peters, Lorenz R 964
Sinclair, Henry G
Piazza. Angelo 1060
Small, Joseph B
936
Poehlmann, Frank 1043
Sonoma Valley Water, Light and
Powell, Ransom
Rosselli. Genesio 1095
Orr, Thomas L. 381
Sartori Brothers
Scrutton, H. C.
Ross, James L. 582
Richards, Theodor
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INDEX
Spurgeon, Sidney F
803
W
Stagg, Amos A. 623
Stengel, Christian 521
Stevens, A. F. 841
Walker, Edward L. 852
Walker, John 1109
Walker, John 1079
Walker, Joseph 905
Walker, Willis Y. 797
Stratton, W. A. T.
564
Strode, John M. 908
Strout, G. A .. 278
Stuart, Absalom B., M. D.
848
Stuart, Anabel McG.
842
Sullivan, Frank A.
897
Welling, Charles W
755
Weyhe, Charles P.
983
Whitaker, Fred
709
Whitaker, George N.
419
White, Harry O. 1020
White, Josiah H.
859
Whitney, Albion P.
283
Whitney, Mrs. Susan D
285
Wickersham, Isaac G.
271
Thomas, Mary Jane. 907
Togni & Dado.
1090
Tombs, William L
474
Traversi, Joseph
1092
Tripp, Hiram L.
840
Trondsen, Thorwald
960
Trosper, Ernest E.
500
Trosper, Francis D.
636
Trosper, Thomas G. W
486
Trowbridge, George T 475
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