Alameda-Sacramento-Shasta County CA Archives Biographies.....Cropsey, George 1836 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

GEORGE CROPSEY, a prosperous rancher of the Livermore Valley, is one of the
prominent pioneers of Alameda County, and most worthy of mention in this
history. He has been a prominent farmer and stock-raiser for nearly thirty
years, and is now residing with his family upon his farm of 350 acres three
miles and a half west of Livermore, He is also engaged in raising live-stock,
including roadsters and speed horses, among them one stallion, "Redwood," that
has a record of 2:27 on the track, and others of less speed. He has a race
course upon his own ranch.

  Mr. Cropsey is a son of Giles B. and Maria (Lockwood) Cropsey, who were
natives of New York State but are now deceased, the father dying in 1877. Mr.
Cropsey, of this sketch, was born at East Troy, New York, December 8, 1836, and
moved with his father to Rochester, that State, where he received his schooling.
In 1858 he came by way of Panama to San Francisco, and for two years he was at
various points on the coast, — Sacramento, Russian River, Cloverdale, etc. In
1860 he went to Haywards and worked for a time, then to Portland, Oregon, where
he was in the commission house of J. M. Blossom & Co. for a short time; then he
went up the Salmon River, and to the Cariboo country in British Columbia; next
he was engaged in quartz-mining in Nevada for serveral [sic] months; then he
followed farming at Haywards until 1870, when he visited his native State. On
his return to California he settled at San Lorenzo until 1877, when he went upon
his present ranch.

  He was married in Oakland, October 30, 1883, to Miss Matilda Rudebeck, and
they have two children, Giles B. and Earl D.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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