Contra Costa-Calaveras County CA Archives Biographies.....Forman, William R. 1821 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

WILLIAM R. FORMAN.—The subject of our memoir, whose portrait appears in this
work, is a native of Marion county, Missouri, born May 7, 1821, was educated at
the common schools and resided there until the Spring of 1848. He then moved
with his parents to Wisconsin, and there found employment in the lead mines,
which occupation he followed until October, 1851. He then started to seek his
fortune in the new Dorado, and came via the Father of Waters to New Orleans,
thence via Panama, and arrived in San Francisco on board the old Columbus,
December 17th of the same year. Mr. Forman immediately proceeded to the mines in
Calaveras county, and there prosecuted mining for six years, with varying
success, his family having joined him in his western home in 1855. In November,
1857, he moved with them, and located about eight miles east of Antioch, Contra
Costa county, and engaged in farming, where he resided until the Fall of 1872,
when he sold out and located in Antioch, and engaged in the butcher business for
two years. Mr. Forman, then, for the next few years, became a gentleman of
leisure, but eventually bought an interest in the lumber firm of Rouse, Forman &
Co., in which firm he is still a member. Mr. Forman was united in marriage in
Elmira, Missouri, December 26, 1843, to Miss Malinda E. Highland, a native of
Kentucky, by which union they had four children, two deceased and two living:
Emma L. (deceased), A. R., Kate A. and Annie (deceased).

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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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