Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Geary, Lawrence 1827 - 1879
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

LAWRENCE GEARY.—Was born in Baden, Germany, December 5, 1827, there receiving a
common school education and residing until he immigrated, in March, 1848, to the
United States. He first arrived in New York, where he sojourned for a few days,
then proceeded west to Philadelphia, and there found employment on a farm near
that city, remaining there some six months; he next moved to St. Louis, and
thence south to New Orleans, where he found employment on a sugar plantation. In
the latter part of April, 1849, Mr. Geary again went west to Fort Leavenworth,
and there resided some two years. In April, 1852, he, in company with three
others, started across the plains for the Land of Gold, and, arriving at
Hangtown, August 26, 1852, there followed mining. In the Fall of that year he
came to Contra Costa county, and engaged in farming in different localities,
until the Fall of 1878, when he purchased his present ranch, located six miles
south of Martinez, consisting of four hundred acres, and is now engaged in
general farming. Mr. Geary was married in Contra Costa county, November 25,
1858, to Miss Jane Wallace, a native of Missouri. They have live living
children, Charles W., Thomas, Frederick, Lawrence, Hattie, and Franklin, (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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