Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Graves, Amos M. 1841 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

AMOS M. GRAVES.—The subject of this sketch is a native of Monroe county, New
York, where he was born April 10, 1841. July 8, 1862, at his country's call, Mr.
Graves enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Eighth New York Volunteer
Infantry, and served his full time of three years. He now bears a memento of his
service in the loss of one of his index fingers. On his return home, he started
with his mother via the Isthmus of Panama for the Pacific States, and arrived in
San Francisco October 22, 1865. His father having preceded him to California,
the subject of our memoir first found employment on the river steamers as
engineer, which he followed some live years, at the end of which time, he joined
his mother, after the death of his father, on his ranch of one hundred and sixty
acres, two miles east of Antioch, where he is now engaged in general farming,
and respected by all who know him. Mr. Graves was married in Martinez, October
23, 1876, to Miss Elizabeth Comrie, a native of Scotland. By this union they
have one daughter.

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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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