Contra Costa-Amador-Napa County CA Archives Biographies.....Diefenbach, Andrew 1832 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

ANDREW DIEFENBACH.—A native of Buffalo, New York, was born February 16, 1832.
Was there educated at the common schools and resided until his twentieth year.
In April, 1852, he sailed on board the good ship Empire, via Cape Horn, and
after a rough passage of five months, arrived in San Francisco in August of the
same year. Mr. Diefenbach immediately engaged in mining in Amador county and
continued there some three years. In 1856, we find Mr. Diefenbach in Napa
county, engaged in agricultural pursuits, where he resided until 1867, when he
came to what has proved to be his future home, and embarked in farming on his
present ranch of one hundred and sixty acres, one mile east of Brentwood. In
connection with his farm, he owns a meat market in the above town. Mr.
Diefenbach is in comfortable circumstances, and respected by all who know him.
Married at Brent-wood, in 1868, Mrs. Melvina Cunningham, and has four children
and three step-children: Annie, Pearl, May and Andrew T. The step-children are:
Mattie, Sadie and Edna.

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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