Contra Costa-Solano-San Mateo County CA Archives Biographies.....Dean, David 1829 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

DAVID DEAN.—Born in Tompkins county, New York, February 16, 1829, where he
received his schooling, and resided until the month of November, 1852, when he
started for California by way of Panama, and arrived in San Francisco, December
16th, of that year. After working on a farm for a short time, he proceeded to
the mines at Green Home creek, and there remained until April, 1853. At this
time he moved to the Suscol valley, Solano county, and there dwelt five years.
We next find Mr. Dean in Redwood City, San Mateo county, but only remaining
there about two years and a half, he visited his native place in the Empire
State. Five months after, he came back to California, and went into the employ
of Patrick Tormey, where he stayed two years, afterwards accompanying that
gentleman to Petaluma, Sonoma county, and there farmed three years, subsequently
embarking in a dairying business in Petaluma in 1868. In the Spring of 1869 he
returned to Mr. Tormey, in Contra Costa county, where he became foreman, a
position he held until 1879. He now rents three hundred and fifty acres, on
which he resides and farms. Married, May 8, 1867, Miss Winifred O'Neil, a native
of Ireland, and has: John, Albert, David, Catharine, Mary, Winifred, William and
Annie S.

Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.

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