Calaveras County CA Archives Biographies.....Swenson, William Oliffe January 8, 1825 - 
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WILLIAM OLIFFE SWENSON, attorney at law, San Andreas, California, was born in
Wilmington, Delaware, January 8, 1825, and is the oldest son of William Oliffe
and Martha (Radcliff) Swenson. At the age of fourteen years he left home and
went to Texas, and from there went on an exploring expedition, in 1845, with
Colonel Jack Hayes. After his return he went into the Mexican war, in Company K,
with Hayes' Texas Mounted Volunteers, and served through the war. Then he went
to New Orleans, and while there voted for General Taylor for President. From
that city he went back to Texas, and in 1849 journeyed overland through Mexico
to Mazatlan. At Durango, Mexico, he engaged with the Government to fight the
Apaches, under Captain Box. They were paid $250 each for every scalp, and he
reports having made considerable money. After this he shipped in the bark Diana,
at Mazatlan, for San Francisco, landing in November, 1849; thence to the mines
in Tuolnmne county, where he was very successful for some three years. He came
to San Andreas in 1852, and has lived here ever since. He is still interested in
the Garden Gravel mine, near San Andreas.

  In 1868 Mr. Swenson began reading law with Colonel W. J. Gatewood. He was
subsequently elected a Justice of the Peace, and was admitted to the bar in
1872. May 4, 1874, he was appointed Court Commissioner of the Eleventh District.

  He was married in 1852, to Bamona Quijade, a native of Santa Barbara,
California. The children born to them are as follows: Martha, wife of J. C.
Sebrean; William George, Alfred, Andrew Johnson, Alice, wife of Thomas Foreman;
Ellen and Emma.



Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Memorial and Biographical History
Merced, Stanislaus, Calaveras, Tuolumne and Mariposa Counties California

Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. 1892


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